Commodity Trading Tools

When Trading Commodities, Investors and Traders use various "trading tools" to assist them in making better decisions as well as more efficient traders. Here are a start-off list, we will add to this list as we progress in developing this website for your convenience.

• Fundamental Analysis in Commodity Trading
  
  Fundamental analysis in commodities trading runs counter to one basic difference with the stock market. In commodities trading, almost all investors trade short term..
• Technical Analysis in Commodity Trading
  
  Technical analysis of Commodities, by contrast, is based on the idea that trends can be detected by charting mathematical manipulations of a few basic variables: price, volume and a few others..
• Hedging in Commodities
  
  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.
• Commodity Trading Strategies
  
  Most commodities trading strategies are in the form of buying or selling a futures contract, not trading the commodity directly. The most basic strategies here are 'going long' or 'going short'..
• Commodity Price Charts
  
  Commodity Price Charts of Major Commodities. In Commodity trading there are four basic price charts for commodity trading; Line Charts, Bar Charts, Candle Stick Charts and the Point and Figure Charts..