David Harper is the CEO and founder of Bionic Turtle. He is also a published author with a popular YouTube channel on expert finance topics. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Kemp at Thomson Reuters is a big fan of commodity curves — backwardation, contango and all the principles ...

According to a forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Money and Finance, there have been significant changes in the risk premia of oil futures since 2005. Regular readers of AllAboutAlpha ...

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 ...

Contango occurs in oversupplied markets, while backwardation reflects undersupplied or tight markets. Since 1985, the crude oil market has been in contango – when near-term prices are lower than ...

Crude oil continues to fall as analysts are now predicting that we could see prices fall below $75.00. An analyst this morning said that WTI crude oil is Crude Oil In Backwardation While Brent Oil In ...

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 ...