Understanding Futures Expiration & Contract Roll

Learn about the expiration and rollover of futures contract and what your choices are when the lifespan of a contract comes to an end.

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[brandonlamontcooper]

What a incredible, beautiful and wonderful system..

[Hugo-xjmj]

Oh so that's why when in contango you'll lose money if you rollover because you'll have to pay more for the new contract

[Fanmovievideos]

My question is to avoid high rollover adjustment do you have to have the same amount of short and long positions to offset?

[chaplainfort]

If you contract is in the negative, does that make the roll cost more?

[Illusiontrades]

I just took physical delivery of 10 Million oranges.... the dump truck just showed up 🤣 (jokes)

[bbronxx]

Currently I have an open position on a future contract that has an automatic rollover date that approaches and I don't know what to do. I would want to keep my position but I don't know what happens to my account after the rollover adjustment is made. If the price goes up after adjustment I lose money, if the price goes down I gain - is that correct? Pls answer.

[rizhawk]

Very poor example to explain offsetting. If i buy two more contracts then there is total 4 burden on me before expiration, how it offsets.