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Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Backwardation Bullish or Bearish

9th - 10th
Discusses why backwardation in a commodities markets is bullish. [3:26]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Verifying Hedge With Futures Margin Mechanics

9th - 10th
Explains how margin mechanics work in a futures market. [3:48]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Futures Introduction

9th - 10th
Explains the type of transaction where two businesses negotiate a futures contract. [3:29]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Contango From Trader Perspective

9th - 10th
What a trader means when they say that a market is in contango. [4:07]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Futures Curves Ii

9th - 10th
Explains how a futures curve shows a snapshot in time of the different market prices for the delivery price of a commodity at different future dates. [3:51]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Arbitraging Futures Contract

9th - 10th
An introduction to how arbitraging futures contracts works. [4:07]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Arbitraging Futures Contracts Ii

9th - 10th
Explains how arbitraging futures contracts works. [4:01]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Backwardation Bullish or Bearish

9th - 10th
Sal Khan discusses why backwardation in commodities markets is bullish. [3:26]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forward and Futures Contracts: Futures and Forward Curves

9th - 10th
Explains how to interpret normal and inverted futures curves. [3:19]