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#You have to pay the costs of holding it, so don’t forget those
#You have to pay the costs of holding it, so don’t forget those
#The person to whom you sold it forward may have blown up in the meantime (but hopefully you’ll be taking margin from them so less of a bother).
#The person to whom you sold it forward may have blown up in the meantime (but hopefully you’ll be taking margin from them so less of a bother).
#Don’t forget to make sure the forward curve is in fact in [[contango]], and the yield exceeds your cost of funding. Schoolboy errors, but these do happen.


Happy days!
Happy days!