There are four commodity contracts known just as the meats, which trade on the CME. These livestock contracts are: feeder cattle, live cattle, lean hogs and pork bellies.Although pork bellies has been the most publicized by the media, it's a thinly traded market with not enough liquidity, creating wide bid/ask spreads and excessive volatility. Unless you're really expert on pork bellies, stay away from this contract. Pork bellies were the first...more
The metallic commodities are attractive because of the romance attached to them, especially gold and silver, and platinum somewhat.Palladium, although not so well known, is also a precious metal. Copper is not a precious metal, but usually grouped with them.They now trade on COMEX, a division of NYMEX, now a part of The CME Group. One gold contract is 100 troy ounces. It's quoted in dollars and cents, and one tick is worth $10.A silver contract...more
Everybody planning to trade commodity futures should have a trading plan.It's estimated that 80 to 90% of traders fail within their first six months. One reason for this is undercapitilization. It is hard to compete when your available funds are wiped out by one losing trade.Another is the influence of the emotions of fear and greed. One way is to practice emotional self-control, in both times of winning and losing.Also, you must practice good capital preservation and risk management techniques. Do not overtrade your account. Even veteran traders sometimes let prior successes make them overconfident, so they put too much money on one trade. When it goes against them, they're out of the game.In fact, it's quite possible that emotional control and risk management is the real key to winning as a trading.Assume that you cannot consistently predict whether a given commodity is going to rise or fall in price. Therefore, your odds of getting a trade right, just by chance, are one in two. That is, you have a 50% chance of buying before it goes up (or selling before it goes down) and buying before it goes down (or selling before it goes up).If you have the self-control to stop a wrong trade...more
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