Talk:Normal backwardation

message: I strongly agree it should be merged with contango. They are just the two sides of a coin. If the current price is higher than the forward price, we call it backwardation. If the current price is lower than the forward price, we call it contango.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.31.46.42 (talk) 04:05, June 30, 2007
Indeed, these pages should be merged
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.217.52.130 (talk) 09:39, July 5, 2007
I disagree completely.  In electronics, attenuation and gain are essentially the same thing with opposite signs, yet there is no mention of gain on the attenuation page and vice versa, and certainly not a combined page for the two.  Keep them separate.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.46.198.233 (talk) 18:51, July 9, 2007
As long as they refer to one another, separate writeups make sense.  Once you start merging related materials in futures, where do you stop?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.251.213.4 (talk) 18:41, July 17, 2007
The two articles should be kept separate.  They are different things.  They may refer to each other and that is helpful but someone who looks up one of the terms should be led to a distinct article that deals with its own topic.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.39.60.217 (talk) 15:25, July 23, 2007
We should take into consideration that we speak about the Encyclopedian term and in this case we should sepparate all the deffinitions one from another, otherwise we need to put all the definitions and clarifications (concerning derivatives for example) into one article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.83.32.14 (talk) 13:02, August 30, 2007 (UTC) 
They should not be merged. We wouldn't think of merging good/bad, black/white, positive/negative and other opposites. Why then should BW/CT be merged? Sure, one could say that negative contango equals backwardation and vice versa just as "cold" could be substituded by "less warm" or something similar,, meaning we actually only need one notion. However, as it is the market participants have chosen to coin two different words and who are we to say it's redundant?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.21.62 (talk) 09:20, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with contango? 

message: (heading added by Riick (talk) 16:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Normal backwardation same as backwardation? 

message: (heading added by Riick (talk) 16:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, the first explanation was (where is it now??) easy to understand and totally correct. But now the article isn't usable anymore. I suggest to include this words again into the article: "Backwardation is a term used principally by traders of commodity futures.   Futures markets allow their participants to buy and sell commodities (grain, oil, metals, etc) at various dates in the future.   Backwardization occurs when it is cheaper to have a product delivered in the future (meaning: the price of the future is lower than the actual spot price).  While many scenarios can lead to backwardization agricultural commodities will typical exhibit this behavior if an abundant harvest is predicted." 178.197.236.3 (talk) 18:55, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions about wording 

message: (heading added by Riick (talk) 16:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Precious metals are not good examples of backwardation 

message: I think the name of the article should be called Backwardation instead of Normal Backwardation. Who supports a page move? Routerlen 15:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no such thing as the "expected future spot". So this article describes a non-existing thing (and the red line in the graph is wrongly named). There exists only the actual spot price, and "backwardation" or "contango" has to do with that. Everything else is just a misunderstood interpretation of (historical?) terms. Also it's usual that falling markets are in backwardation while rising markets are in contango. Actually, the price of a future IS the expected future spot! This also explains the price correlation of the future and spot price in the end. 178.197.236.3 (talk) 18:47, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of Article

message: The Graph describs contango as backwardation and vise versa. Please change.-  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.127.123.97 (talk) 09:01, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The Graph