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How do hedging pressures from major multinational commercial firms create structural biases across localized continuous curves?

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The short answer

Large commercial hedgers' persistent buying or selling for risk management purposes can create structural pricing biases, such as chronic contango or backwardation, in localized futures curves.

How it works

Airlines hedging jet fuel or farmers hedging crops create predictable seasonal order flow patterns that can skew forward curve shapes independent of pure supply-demand fundamentals.

An example

Airline hedging flows bias jet fuel forward curves.

Risk & limitations

Hedging flow effects are structural tendencies, not certainties.

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