Travis T asked:


Demand for honey is growing. Does honey trade on any commodities market?

ansy asked:


Do agricultural products and agricultural commodities have the same meaning and can they be used in the same situations? Which is better: agricultural commodities market or agricultural products market?

Annie C asked:


If so, it just shows his liberal hypocrisy.

Kemit-Soul J asked:


List of all traded goods or commodities in the stock market

The stock market is a place where long term securities are bought and sold. It is a market used to raise long term finances for the businesses and provides the businesses with the necessary liquidity. Stock markets can help the businesses to raise liquid funds at the time of their needs by selling or pledging their shares listed in the stock exchange. Stock markets are necessary to attract foreign capital in the form of foreign institutional investors to our country and this hot money decides the upward or downward movement of our indices.

There are different participants in a stock exchange and each one of them has their own objectives. They carry their share trading on the basis of their objectives. The different kinds of share trading which are in practice are intraday trading, swing trading, commodity trading etc. Trading can be done both on the equities as well as on commodities. Trading on commodities is known as commodity trading. Commodity trading includes trading of commodities like gold, crude, silver, nickel, lead etc. The Indian commodity market opens at 9:55 in the morning and functions till 11:30 in the night. The commodity trading is largely influenced by the change in price of the commodities in the international commodities market. In India a large number of investors do engage in commodity trading. Most of the large players in commodity trading are traders like jewelers etc. They see commodity trading as a tool to mitigate the risks of their business. In commodity trading the commodities are bought and sold in a lot or individually. The parties involved in commodity trading may sometime go for margin money and if the value of their security falls down then they cannot hold it for a longer period of time as they are in short of funds.

Intraday trading and swing trading are two tools of speculation. Swing trading is a practice where by the instrument is bought or sold at the end of volatility in price. So swing trading makes use of the volatility of the share price for a period of one week. Intraday trading is the most commonly used speculative tool in our stock exchanges. In intraday trading, the securities that are brought on that day are sold before the market closes for that day. So people who indulge in intraday trading are not real investors and they are really interested in making quick profits. Intraday trading can give you quick profits as well as the chances for loss making are many when compared to delivery trading. Most people who indulge in intraday trading end up making losses because they do not know anything about the stock exchanges and listening to others words them start intraday trading expecting quick profits. Most people who go for intraday trading use the margin money system and therefore they cannot hold their shares for a longer time due to the shortage of funds.

This article could be made use of to study the different types of stock market trading.

By: Willams Andrew

About the Author:

In 1983, two great commodity traders and friends were having an argument. One was of the opinion that great traders are made. The other said,” No, they are made.” Both had a bet. They placed an ad in the famous Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Barrons for novices to apply for apprenticeship as commodity futures traders. Lo ahd behold many hundreds applied. Only 13 novices who had never traded anything before were selected and taught by these two great men how to trade commodities. Thus the great Turtle Trading Experiment in the history of trading was born. These novices were called as Turtle Traders by the two great traders. Ultimately almost all succeeded and became millionaires themselves. Learning commodity trading is not difficulty. This is the best time to do it. Commodity markets have entered a historical bull market that will continue for many decades in first half of the 21st century.

Commodities like gold, silver,oil, copper,uranium, wheat, cotton and other are experiencing an all time high historical prices. Gold prices recently breached the unheard of historical barrier of $1200 per troy ounce. Gold prices have retraced somewhat, but the market is poised for another rally in gold prices in the next few months. Other commodities are also experiencing a all time high demand. Crude oil is expected to reach close to $200 per barrel in the next few years with the global economy finally out of recession. What we are watching is a secular bull market in the commodities. This secular bull market may continue for many decades in 21st century. That is why it is being said that 21st century belongs to commodity trading. The fundamentals behind this secular bull market are strong.

But this does not mean that the commodity bull market will go up in a straight line. There will be times when the commodities market will no perform very well. This is simply the nature of the commodity cycle. No market ever goes up in a straight line.

What are the fundamentals that are driving the bull market in commodities? These are the factors like the rapid global population growth that started in the last half of 20th century and is expected to continue in 21st century. This rapid population growth is taking place mostly in the developing continents like Asia and Africa. Recent studies done by UNDP, an agency of United Nations indicate that the time for the global population to increase by 1 billion people has decreased from 50 years in the early 20th century to something like 13 years in 21st century.

Now this rapid increase in the global population is going to put a lot of pressure on natural resources. It is natural for people to eat and built homes where they can live and sleep. These homes need heating in winters.All these things need natural resources.

Couple this population growth factor with the largest urbanization movement that the world is experiencing. In early part of 20th century only 15 of the world population lived in cities. Now this figure has jumped to more than 50%. More and more people are moving to cities around the world in search of jobs and better living conditions. Urbanization means a high demand for natural resources as city dwellers consume a lot more natural resources as compared to village dwellers. This phenomenon is more pronounced in Asian countries.

Then there is rapid industrialization that is taking place in countries like Brazil, Russia, China and India which is putting a lot of pressure on the global supply of natural resources. As energy resources get depleted, more and more competition will develop between these countries to develop direct access to global energy markets.

By: Ahmad A Hassam

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Ganesan R asked:


Dow, NASDAQ, crude oil, gold and commodities market are very volatile ??

I am in india. I cant able to make out what is happening with the indian indices ( sensex & nifty ). How people in the globe are able to trade on these most volatile indices ( dow, NASDAQ, crude oil, gold and silver. How is this possible ???????

Is it that the software which guides the winners ??????

Or how to be a winner in the market. I want to win the indian market >??????????

can it be possible ??????

What should i do for this ????????

Software, technical, fundamentals ?????

Please tell me.

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Do you think the Russians hold a grudge for the fall of the USSR?
I do.
Do you think if they see an opportunity to cause the fall of the USA they’d take it?
I do.
Russia has emerged as the second largest oil exporter behind Saudi Arabia. Since the early 1970s, when the USA went off the gold standard, it has been the international trade in oil that has supported the value of the dollar. All oil exporting countries have demanded payment for oil in dollars. These are called petrodollars. Without this trade in dollars, U.S. currency would be virtually worthless.
In 2000, Iraq started demanding payment for it’s oil in Euros. Soon after, Jordan, Iran, and Venezuela also started trading oil in Euros. All of these countries were close allies to the old USSR.
Interestingly, France and Germany, two major countries in the EU, did not back the U.S. and the UK in the Iraqi invasion, which clearly was to stop the trade in Euros and not for WMD.
The situation is much more dire than being presented by the government. If only one more major oil exporter switches to trading oil in Euros, the U.S. dollar is going to crash. It will cause a depression here in the USA several times worse than the great depression. There is 2700 trillion U.S. dollars tied up in the international commodities market. If the Euro replaces the dollar as the international currency, the U.S. will have to buy all that script back.
Think about the effects of that.

Annie C asked:


Making a profit off of the air temperature? Isn’t that going against the liberal creed?

Sterkwell asked:


Is there a difference between buying wheat in the commodities market, for example, and buying wheat futures?