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Oil Backwardation
Oil Backwardation
Prices
Group-2
Arihant Buccha-14CE3FP02
Ajit Sharma - 14CE3FP17
Piyush Kumar - 14CE3FP11
Aditya Garg - 14MI3FP01
Introduction
In practice, the expected future spot price is unknown, and the term
"backwardation" is used to refer to "positive basis", which occurs when
the current spot price exceeds the price of the future.
Introduction
Introduction
Cause of Backwardation:From Cost of
Carry Model
Why?
Oil prices are rising & Cost of rolling over contracts
is falling after the curve moved into backwardation
Cost of Rolling