FT MarketWatch

Backwardation

A Market condition in which a Futures price is lower in the distant Delivery months than in the near Delivery month.

Related Terms: 7 Delivery month, Delivery, Futures, Futures price, Low, Market, Owe
Other Related Pages: Category: Futures Starting With: B
Semi Related Terms: 315 CLICK HERE TO VIEW
10-K, 52-week low, Accrued market discount, Asked price, Asking price, Adjusted futures price, Add-on service, As is, Attorney in fact, A shares, Average price per share, Aggregate exercise price, At the money, Across the board, Additional paid-in capital, Active market, Against the box, At the bell, At the close, At the figure, At the full, At the market, At the opening order, Auction market, Away from the market, Below the line, Bond market, Brought over the wall, Buying on margin, Buy on close, Buy on opening, Buy the book, Bear market, Back months, Bulldog market, Breaking the syndicate, By the book, B shares, Breadth-of-market theory, Beat the gun, Bull market, Call price, Capital market, Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures, Conversion parity price, Conversion price, Current market value, Consumer Price Index, Cash market, Cash price, Chasing the market, Cheapest to deliver, Commodity futures, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Contract market, Contract month, Current delivery, C shares, Close to the money, Cloud on title, Choice market, Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Cash delivery, Certificate of delivery, Close a position, Close market, Closing price, Continuous market, Cornering the market, Curbs in, Deposit in transit, Dealer market, Debt market, Delivery vs. payment, Delivery vs. receipt, Delivery vs. repayment, Dollar price, Del credere agency, Division of Market Regulation, Dividend in arrears, Desk (the), Deferred month, Delivery month, Delivery point, Delivery price, De-escalation clause, De facto, Delivery, Debtor in possession, Debtor-in-possession financing, Due-on-sale clause, Deep in the money, Deep out of the money, Dogs of the Dow, Daily low, Deep market, Depth of market, Double auction market, External market, E-mini, Exchange for futures, Emerging market, First In First Out, Full price, Front-ending an order, Forward P/E, Free market, Free market price, Far month, Financial futures, Forward price, Furthest month, Futures, Futures contract, Futures option, Futures price, Fair market value, Form 8-K, Form S-1, Fourth market, Free delivery, Good delivery, GDP implicit price deflator, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Gather in the stops, Graveyard market, Hit the bid, Holder in due course, Housing Market Index, High-low index, Hammering the market, Held at the opening, Holding the market, Horizontal price movement, In escrow, In-house, In line, Inefficient market, Interest rate futures, Inverted market, Internal market, Inside market, In intestacy, In play, In-process research and development, I/O strip, In-service withdrawal, Imperfect market, In and out, In sympathy, In the tank, Jumping the gun, Last In First Out, Law of one price, Lending at a rate, Limit-on-close order, Limit price, Long Market Value, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, Lock-in, Leading the market, Locked in, Level I quotes, Liquid market, Locked market, Low, Market basket, Market capitalization, Market conversion price, Make a market, Market if touched order, Market letter, Market maker, Market maker spread, Market on close order, Market order, Mark-to-market, Market economy, Most distant month, Making delivery, Market rate, Market cap, Market neutral, Market portfolio, Market timer, Market timing, Market analysis, Market, Market inefficiency, Market opening, Market return, Market-share weighted index, Market surveillance, Market-value weighted index, Market Volatility Index, Maximum price fluctuation, Mixed market, Near money, National Market System, National Futures Association, Nearby month, New York Futures Exchange, Next month, Normal market, Near option, Nasdaq Small Cap Market, Narrow market, National Market Advisory Board, Negotiated market, Off the books, Offering price, Over-the-Counter, On-floor order, On margin, Open market operation, On account, On-the-spot loan, Owe, Option price, Out of the money, On-balance volume, On close, On open, On the opening, Open market, Operationally efficient market, Outside market, Payment-in-kind security, Price Value of a Basis Point, P&L, Price index, Producer Price Index, Parity price, Physical market, Price limit, Primary market, Public offering price, Private Market Value, Price spread, Paid-in capital, Paid-in surplus, Private Investment in Public Equity, Perfect capital market, Painting the tape, Price range, Price-weighted index, Return on Capital, Return on Invested Capital, Return on Total Assets, Redemption price, Regular-way delivery, Reading the tape, Regulation D, Regulation T, Regulation U, Retail Price Index, Regulation A, Return on Capital Employed, SG&A, S&L, Secondary market, Sell the book, Stop price, Settlement price, Single stock futures, Spot market, Spot month, Spot price, Stock market, Subscription price, Secondary mortgage market, Selling the spread, Short market value, Share price, Split-adjusted price, Selling short against the box, Shorting against the box, S Corporation, Subchapter M, Subchapter S Corporation, Schedule C, Seek a market, Specialist market, S&P phenomenon, T-Bill, Take a position, Two-sided market, Two-way market, Trailing P/E, Take delivery, Tenancy by the entirety, Truth in Lending, The Street, Timing the market, Take a bath, Target price, Thin market, Third market, Tight market, Transparent market, U.S. Government Agency Security, U.S. Savings Bond, U.S. Treasury, U.S. Treasury Bill, U.S. Treasury Bond, U.S. Treasury Note, U.S. Treasury Securities, Wage price spiral, W-2 Form, W formation, Weak market, Wide market, Yankee bond market, Y shares