Commodity Trading Success e-Course

This course is intended for beginner. Please spend an hour or two to understand the basics of commodity trading.

• Intro to Commidities
  Most commodities trading is done in the form of futures or options and it's that scenario that gives rise to most of the huge potential for profit and loss...
  
  
• Intro to Commodities - Part II
  Let's examine a highly simplified commodities future contract trade...
  
  
• Commodity Exchanges
  There are more than a dozen major commodity exchanges around the world, reflecting the global nature of speculation today...
  
  
• Financial Indexes
  Stocks and bonds aren't the sort of thing the novice investor typically thinks of as a commodity...
  
  
• Commodity Types
  Commodities are categorized for ease of price comparison, research and other conveniences in trading...
  
  
• Reading Prices
  Most trades are carried out by buying and selling futures contracts, rather than trading directly in the commodity...
  
  
• Margins
  Exchanges monitor prices, volatility and many other factors to determine acceptable levels of risk and then set the margins accordingly...
  
  
• Leverage
  Why do futures offer any advantage over trading the commodity directly...
  
  
• Trading Coffee
  Coffee prices have been rising for the last two years, after a substantial dip...
  
  
• Trading Oil
  No one can predict oil prices with certainty, but there are several large scale factors that make reasonable projection possible...
  
  
• Trading Silver
  Silver is unique among commodities. Like gold and a few others, private investors can feasibly take actual delivery...
  
  
• 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 Uranium
  Uranium has a number of natural advantages over oil or other energy sources...
  
  
• Commodities In Your Portfolio
  Since commodities and stock prices tend to move in opposite directions, commodities form part of many intelligent hedging strategies...
  
  
• Commodities - Funds
  Since early 2000 commodities have risen substantially. Gold has increased over 25% and oil has nearly doubled. During this same period commodity funds have seen double-digit returns...
  
  
• Commodities Trading Strategies
  A large number of common trading strategies are for the purpose not only of making a profit but, as a hedge...
  
  
• Basic Risk Management - Hedging
  Hedging is essentially recognizing a hard fact: traders can't predict prices correctly 100% of the time...
  
  
• Fundamental Analysis
  Fundamental analysis in commodities trading runs counter to one basic difference with the stock market...
  
  
• Technical Analysis - Expectancy
  Expectancy is a powerful trading tool and one that isn't used often enough by novice traders...