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Commodity Trading

Intro to Commodities - Part II

Let's examine a highly simplified commodities future contract trade.
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Intro to Commodities - Part I

Why aren't paintings commodities? Because each one is unique. Commodities are uniform and one individual or portion serves the same purpose as any other. An ounce of gold, a barrel of oil, a bushel of wheat. In every case, one is pretty much like another. It makes little difference to most of those buying it whether they receive this ounce of gold or that one....
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Funds

Investors come in all flavors. Some are bold, whether they have the capital to lose or not. Some are cautious and regard capital preservation, with the hope of some small return over a long period, as the paramount value. Somewhere in between, but closer to the latter probably, is the territory for most fund investors....
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Fundamental Analysis

Fundamental analysis, in essence, comes down to studying the factors affecting supply and demand. When supply is great relative to demand, prices tend to fall. When demand is large relative to supply, the price of a commodity rises. But beyond those simple and obvious principles, there's a world of complexity. What, after all, affects supply and what influences demand?...
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Financial Indexes

Stocks and bonds aren't the sort of thing the novice investor typically thinks of as a commodity. Even less do they view a statistical measurement of changes in their prices as similar to gold, wheat or oil. Yet, because stocks and bonds (and the indexes that measure price changes) trade in the form of futures and options contracts, they can be traded in the same way as other commodities....
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Commodity Types

Commodities are categorized for ease of price comparison, research and other conveniences in trading. Investors interested in getting involved in one of the riskiest, and potentially most profitable, areas will need to know the basics....
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Commodity Exchanges

There are more than a dozen major commodity exchanges around the world, reflecting the global nature of speculation today....
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Commodities In Your Portfolio

For over thirty years - roughly 1974-2004 - the S&P 500 trended upward, with the CRB (Commodity Research Bureau) trending down. The CRB is analogous to the Dow Jones Index - a mathematical combination of commodities prices that indicates their movement....
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Basic Risk Management – Order Types

It's common knowledge that in trading commodities, like any other kind of speculating, there are no guarantees. You can make money, or lose money - a lot, and quickly. What's less commonly known by the average trader are the many methods professionals use to reduce the risk of loss and limit the amount. ...
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Basic Risk Management - Hedging

Two different motives compel commodities traders: speculation and hedging. They're not mutually exclusive - one can do both at the same time - but speculation is primarily profit oriented. Hedging is more oriented toward protecting profits or minimizing a potential loss, it's a defensive strategy....
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