RE: Coal price24 Feb 2022 11:37
pop31, as expected you are looking at yesterday's price for February delivery (which expires tomorrow "Expiration Date02/25/22 (1 day)")
You need to look at prices (which show on the right hand side of the screen), that they have been updated today (i.e. a time, not yesterday's date)
i.e. Header from your link:
"ICE Richard Bay Coal Feb '22 (LVG22)
204.00s +4.60 (+2.31%) 02/23/22 [ICE/EU]
ICE RICHARD BAY COAL PRICES for Wed, Feb 23rd, 2022" ----------NOTE the date is 23rd not 24th.
As you get closer to the end of the month, the contract becomes less relevant, because you are either going to have to take physical delivery of the coal (do you have a bulk booked into RBC before Monday?) or close it, through the clearing house. Therefore I would suggest that the following month's price becomes the most immediately relevant to the price you will get when you try to sell your coal onto the market.
With the utmost respect and sincerity (I am not trying to be one of the point scoring trolls that lurk on many of the boards on LSE) but if you do not genuinely already know and understand the above, I would suggest, investing in individual shares, is not for you, and/or to get stuck into some serious researching.
ATB RB