commodity trading
Buying raw materials
Commodity trading is the buying and selling of raw materials and primary goods—oil, gold, wheat, coffee, natural gas—typically through futures contracts on exchanges.
Traders speculate on price movements or hedge against them: She made a fortune in commodity trading during the oil crisis.
The practice involves both physical commodities and financial instruments derived from them.
- speculatorsThose betting on markets
- cornCereal grown on cobs
- futures contractsAgreements to trade later
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- copperReddish-brown metallic element
gold · hedging · margin call · clearinghouses · crude oil · commodities · arbitrage · soybeans · CBOT · coffee · cotton · natural gas · derivatives · options · futures · institutional investors · contracts · spot market
- Exchange Systemsbarter, currency, money, stock market, trade
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- African economydiamond mining, gold mining, copper mining, safari tourism, mobile banking
- farm economicsfarm economy, farm income, farm loans, farm credit, farm management
- historical tradebarter, Silk Road, bartering, spice trade, barter system
- Indian Economyrupee, mutual funds, IPO, fixed deposit, UPI
commodity tradingbond trading
Buying and selling fixed-income instruments
securities trading · currency trading · stock trading · options trading
commodity tradingmanufacturing
Industrial product creation
production · farming · mining · long-term investment · subsistence agriculture