Have you ever wondered what contango actually means and how it affects your investments? Sometimes it seems like investors have a language all their own. If you ever tune in to the talking heads on ...

Term structure, the forward curve, or time spreads are all synonymous and reflect the price differences for a commodity over time. In some commodities, seasonality causes prices to reach lows at ...

A contango market is often confused with a normal futures curve; and a normal backwardation market is confused with an inverted futures curve. Let's start by getting an understanding of the difference ...

When it comes to commodity trading, few words are more serious in an investor's vocabulary than contango. This phenomenon has been known to burn a hole in positions and cause problems for those who ...

CONTANGO WATCH: Natural gas remained in backwardation for a third week amid scorching summer temperatures across the United States. For the next month or two, roll costs should not be a major ...

Super-contango is when the spot price for a commodity is trading dramatically below the futures price. Super-contango usually occurs when the inventory space to store the physical commodity is running ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - “The rebalancing of the oil market desired by the leading producers has been a stubborn process,” the International Energy Agency wrote in its latest monthly oil market report. The ...

In the world of commodities, the differential between one delivery period and another for the same raw material can go by different names, but they all have the same meaning. Term structure, the ...