Commodity trading involves the exchange of primary products. It can be the buying and selling of future contracts in Gold, Silver, Oil, Gas, Platinum, Copper, Zinc, Cotton, Wheat, Corn and many more physical products. These row commodities are bought and sold in standardized contracts. The products are uniform; one of its quantity or fraction serves the same purpose as any other. Considering the following cases - a barrel of oil, an ounce of gold, and a bushel of wheat - one is pretty much like another. The most extensively traded and most liquid commodities are Oil and Gold.
There are some differences also. This difference is owing to shipping costs, differences in composition, etc. For example, some oil does sell for a diverse price than that from another source. Commodities are usually traded in the form of futures. It can be also traded on spot markets, where the trading is happened immediately in exchange for cash or some other good.
Commodity futures trading, also known as commodity options trading, creates a contract to sell or buy the goods for a fixed price by a certain date in the future. This contract period is the major reason of the huge potential for profit and loss. Future trading also involves all the exciting aspects of trading, as it intrinsically occupies predictions of the future and consequently uncertainty and risk.
The commodity futures trading puts some obligations on the buyers and sellers. The buyer is responsible for taking delivery and paying for the cash commodity during a fixed time period. The seller is responsible for delivering the commodity, for which he/she will be paid the price that was decided in the exchange pit by the dealers.
This article is written for www.orientfinance.com. Orient Financial Brokers (OFB) S.L.P. conducts brokerage in Foreign Exchange, Futures, and Commodities in the Middle East.
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