- Commodity Types
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...
- Financial Indexes
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...
- Trading Coffee
Trading Coffee It's great to be able to trade a commodity where you wouldn't mind actually taking delivery. Coffee prices have been rising for the last two years, after a substantial dip. Producers...
- Trading Oil
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...
- Trading Silver
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...
- Trading Soybean
Trading Soybean Soybeans aren't sexy... except to a commodities trader. Yet this grain is among the lowest risk, most potentially profitable trades around. Soybeans were first cultivated in China...
- Trading Uranium
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...