Contract rollover

Contract rollover is closing an expiring futures month and opening the next to stay exposed. Front at $85.00, next at $84.50, and the reference falls 50 cents over the roll while no barrel changed price. The perp has no expiry, its reference does; index funds roll on a published schedule, and Module 2 gives the arithmetic.

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