Commodity Trading

Trading Uranium

For those who like their trading radioactive, uranium offers a wild ride. Prices exploded a couple of years ago, then dropped back just as quickly to the $29 level, the boom up to $45. And you thought oil prices were volatile. Nevertheless, prices have been on a steady rise the last two years, and it's no surprise.

Trading Strategies - The Spread

A large number of common trading strategies are for the purpose not only of making a profit but, as a hedge. Hedging is essentially an attempt to buy some form of insurance to minimize risks. Typically, along with minimizing risks comes a cap on potential profits. Let's examine one of these strategies: the spread....

Trading Soybean

Soybeans aren't sexy... except to a commodities trader. Yet this grain is among the lowest risk, most potentially profitable trades around....

Trading Silver

Silver is unique among commodities. Like gold and a few others, private investors can feasibly take actual delivery. But unlike gold, the price is within reach. Physical storage is not out of the question and security can be as simple as bank's safe deposit box....

Trading Oil

For decades, commodity trading in petroleum products was a club for only the big guns. At 42 gallons per barrel, and a minimum contract size of 1,000 barrels, the prospect of delivering oil was only for professionals. But several changes have occurred in the last few years to alter the scene....

Trading Coffee

It's great to be able to trade a commodity where you wouldn't mind actually taking delivery. ...

Technical Analysis - Expectancy

Fundamental analysis in commodities trading looks at economic factors such as weather predictions and crop yields, new mines opened, new oil extraction technology, etc. In short, factors affecting the causes of supply and demand....

Reading Prices

Welcome to the confusing world of commodities....

Leverage

Most commodities trades are executed in the form of futures contracts. A specified percentage of the asset price is paid and a buyer accepts the obligation to deliver (or take delivery of) a set quantity of the good at a future date. Hence the name....

Margins

Suppose you've been reading the newspaper lately and seen the substantial rise in inflation over the last two years. You bet, along with many others, that this trend is likely to continue for the next two years. You decide to hedge your portfolio, and possibly pick up some profits, by investing in gold....

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