Last August, I wrote a blog entitled, “Did you just ask me to dance the Contango?” It explained, in detail, oil prices being in Contango – the “situation where the future spot price is below the ...

Investors love commodities based exchange-traded funds. But they hate contango, that nasty little quirk that occurs when distant commodities futures prices are greater than near-term prices. Investors ...

Contango is such a nice-sounding word. But as any commodity futures investor knows, contango is anything but nice: it’s a mean little bugger that steals your returns when you’re not looking. Ask any ...

Bitcoin futures are showing signs the market is more optimistic on the cryptocurrency. On Thursday, prices for further-dated futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) were higher than ...

The oil market is slipping into a state known as contango. And while that may sound vaguely dance-inspiring, history suggests the shift isn’t a positive sign for crude prices. Contango is trader lingo ...

If you are an investor looking for some diversification within the commodities market or are just trying to capitalize on a recent rise in oil prices, you have probably heard of contango. This is a ...

WHAT a happy bunch of shareholders assembled yesterday for the annual meeting of Contango MicroCap, one of the portfolios run by David Stevens and Stephen Babidge, who set up their own funds ...