Gave in to temptation. Silver futs obviously up but what’a more interesting is the basis (Mar delivery minus May delivery) is positive — for the last thirty years it has been between -0.2 and 0 except for a couple of periods of stress in the physical silver mkt.
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Ah I did miss out the spot. If I recall correctly, the front month contract is treated as "spot" in commodity carry factor, but with actual spot then the picture is different as you said.
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Yes, commodity carry strategies generally use front month minus far month (in academia anyway -- in practice you need to do much more to make it useful -- e.g. at minimum account for seasonality in the futures curve)
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