Strong commodity returns are being amplified by backwardation, with tight energy markets generating positive carry and ...

Usually when “contango” comes up in a markets story, one reaction might be “Huh?” while another might be “Where's my oil tanker?” That's because contango and its sister term, backwardation, are used ...

Contango makes it profitable for crude traders to store large volumes of crude oil through "cash and carry" strategies which are no longer possible when the market is in backwardation. Many observers ...

The oil market continues to send mixed signals, with a pending U.S.-China trade deal and potential production cut extension--or deepening--by OPEC counterbalanced by rising crude inventories and an ...

My contango and backwardation strategy takes into account many factors outside of the VIX futures curve. Current conditions could lead to an opportunity during the next week. Market conditions are ...

When investors trade futures contracts for oil, iron and wheat, they’re helping to establish the market prices for these key commodities. Commodities prices can fluctuate dramatically over short ...

Volatility ETP trading in products such as VXX, UVXY, SVXY, ZIV, TVIX has exploded in popularity. The volatility space however is complicated with a lot of moving parts. Understanding how M1:M2 VIX ...

The specter of contango must be acknowledged when it comes to commodities ETFs, particularly those that are based on futures contracts, not actual physical holdings of an underlying commodity. And ...

Usually when “contango” comes up in a markets story, one reaction might be “Huh?” while another might be “Where’s my oil tanker?” That’s because contango and its sister term, backwardation, are used ...

The terms contango and backwardation both refer to current conditions in a futures market for a given commodity. A futures market is said to be in contango if the price of a futures contract that ...

LONDON (Reuters) - "Backwardation is the solution" to OPEC's problem of how to raise output and revenues without sparking another shale boom, according to the influential oil research team at Goldman ...