For instance, purchasing a 24 -
month oil futures contract for $ 80 means you agree to purchase oil at $ 80 a barrel 24 months from now, regardless of what the price of oil is at that time.
If you invest in a fund that always buys one -
month oil futures contracts, for instance, and that fund has to pay $ 2 more than the spot price for them, the fund will essentially lose $ 2 per barrel each month when they roll their futures contracts.
Not exact matches
The roll yield is the profit traders can earn when they roll their investment in crude
oil futures, which expire every
month, into
contracts that expire at a later date.
For example, you could purchase a
futures contract to buy
oil at $ 95 per barrel with a delivery date three
months from now.
The market is still in a state of contango, in which front
month contracts are cheaper than
oil futures further out.
Investors may be so concerned about higher prices in the
future that they're willing to pay $ 102 per barrel now for a
contract that promises to deliver
oil one
month from today.
All of the PowerShares DB Crude
Oil ETNs are based on a total return version of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index — Oil, which is designed to reflect the performance of certain crude oil futures contracts plus the returns from investing in 3 month United States Treaury Bil
Oil ETNs are based on a total return version of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index —
Oil, which is designed to reflect the performance of certain crude oil futures contracts plus the returns from investing in 3 month United States Treaury Bil
Oil, which is designed to reflect the performance of certain crude
oil futures contracts plus the returns from investing in 3 month United States Treaury Bil
oil futures contracts plus the returns from investing in 3
month United States Treaury Bills.
The underlying asset in this case is the crude
oil futures contract for the current front -
month.
Trading in the current delivery
month shall cease on the business day immediately preceding to the last day of trading in the current delivery
month of the NYMEX Light Sweet Crude
Oil futures contract.
The Floating Price for each
contract month will be equal to the Light Sweet Crude
Oil Futures contract final settlement price for the corresponding
contract month on the last trading day for the E-mini Crude
Oil Futures contract month.
What happens is that
oil futures contracts in contango are more expensive in
future months meaning the USO needs to pay more to roll its
contracts forward.
Due to the use of
futures contracts, many
oil ETPs make for poor long - term investments because they can expose investors to contango by using front -
month futures.
Let us say, for example, that a forward
oil contract for twelve
months in the
future is selling for $ 100 today, while today's spot price is $ 75.
An airline expecting the price of
oil to rise, buys a three -
month futures contract for 1,000 gallons at current prices.