{"id":26187,"date":"2026-04-01T04:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=26187"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:18:46","slug":"what-does-rollover-mean-in-fo","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-does-rollover-mean-in-fo\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Rollover Mean in F&#038;O?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every futures contract has an expiry date. If you want to continue holding your position beyond expiry, you need to close your current contract and open a new one in the next month. This is called a rollover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say you are holding a Nifty January futures contract and want to keep your position open into February. You would:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Sell your January contract to close the position<\/li><li>Buy a February contract to open a fresh position<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Both legs are usually done together so there is no gap in your position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is there a cost to rolling over?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next month&#8217;s contract usually trades at a slightly different price than the current one. This difference is the roll cost. If the February contract is trading higher than January, rolling over will cost you a little more. If it is lower, you may benefit from the roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When do traders roll over?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most traders roll over in the last few days before expiry. You will notice volumes in the current month&#8217;s contract drop while the next month&#8217;s contract picks up. This shift is what market participants track as the rollover percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2849],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26189,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26187\/revisions\/26189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=26187"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=26187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}