The CME bitcoin annualised basis has fallen to -2.35% its deepest backwardation since the extreme dislocations of the FTX collapse in November 2022, when the basis briefly approached -50%, according ...

Bitcoin has slipped into backwardation, a structure that occurs when futures trade below the spot price and is typically associated with stress, "extreme fear" or heavy hedging activity. The shift ...

Silver's futures curve just did something we haven't seen in over forty years: it flipped into deep backwardation. The front-month contract is trading about $2.88 higher than the later ones, marking ...

Earlier this October, silver entered an unusual and rare deep backwardation where the spot market rose to a gap of $2.88 above the futures market. While there were geopolitical and international ...

Backwardation is the incidence when spot prices exceed futures prices, akin to an inverse yield curve with interest rates and bonds. Among the circumstances that can trigger backwardation with ...