This Week’s ETF Launches: AccuShares Builds a Better Oil ETF

Contango and backwardation. For professional commodity investors, the two terms are common knowledge. However, for regular retail investors, many are blissfully unaware of how these two situations can affect their returns – even if they own popular commodity-linked ETFs like the United States Oil ETF ( USO A ). In fact, the two situations can actually put investments into some pretty nasty losses.