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In futures or options trading, a market in which longer-term contracts have a higher market price than near-term contracts.  
''Risk management - finance - financial markets - company law - criminal law - ethics - geopolitical risk.''


The premium attached to longer maturities is a normal condition of markets, reflecting the cost of carry of the commodity (for the contracted future delivery).  
Any person or entity that poses a risk through negligent, reckless or intentional acts or omissions.


The further into the future the final maturity date, the higher the price of the contract.
Rogue actors include ''bad actors'', but rogue actors are a broader group.
 
 
That usual pricing relationship is known as contango.
 
If - unusually - the opposite is true, and the price of a longer-term contract is lower than the price of a related one with an earlier maturity date, the pricing relationship is known as backwardation.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Backwardation]]
* [[Actor]]
* [[Cost of carry]]
* [[Bad actor]]
* [[Super contango]]
* [[Company law]]
* [[Criminal law]]
* [[Economic actor]]
* [[Economics]]
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Fraud]]
* [[Geopolitical risk]]
* [[Jurisdiction]]
* [[Money laundering]]
* [[Negligence]]
* [[Political risk]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Rogue trader]]


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Revision as of 19:56, 9 December 2021

Risk management - finance - financial markets - company law - criminal law - ethics - geopolitical risk.

Any person or entity that poses a risk through negligent, reckless or intentional acts or omissions.

Rogue actors include bad actors, but rogue actors are a broader group.


See also