Commodity Fundamentals: How To Trade the Precious Metals, Energy, Grain, and Tropical Commodity Markets: 265 (Wiley Trading) - Tapa dura

Erratic supplies of oil and other essential commodities, coupled with skyrocketing demand from China, India, and other rapidly developing countries and economies, have laid the groundwork for a long-term uptrend in the global commodities market. At the same time, the collapse of historic trading barriers has made it more possible than ever for traders of every size and style to reap regular profits from the accessible and untapped commodity trading market.

Commodity Fundamentals provides you with the knowledge and information you need to make consistent commodities trading a profitable, integral component of your overall trading activities. Written by Ronald Spurga, a Vice President of ABN AMRO Bank, bestselling finance author, and longtime veteran of the investment banking wars, this straightforward, step-by-step guidebook features:

• Supply/demand information for nearly two-dozen physical commodities in the precious metals, energy, grains, meats, and tropical commodity markets
• Detailed overviews and trading strategies for everything from gold and palladium to crude oil, natural gas, coffee, cattle, and other trader favorites
• Trading techniques that have proven uniquely powerful when applied to the commodities markets, including spread trades, cash and carry trades, and others
• In-depth chapters that describe the diversification, risks, and rewards possible through increasingly popular commodity funds
• Addresses, release dates, costs (where applicable), and more for updated and essential reports covering every important commodity

What is a futures contract? What are the major commodity exchanges, and where are they located? What are the differences between hedging and speculating? Commodity Fundamentals answers these questions and dozens more, all in a concise, no-nonsense style that is short on fluff and long on the actionable advice you need to compete and win in the global commodities marketplace.

Do you have what it takes to become a risk-conscious yet aggressive commodity speculator? As equities markets flounder and fixed income markets struggle to outpace inflation, the profit potential available in trading precious metals, energy, grains, and tropical commodities is becoming impossible to ignore. Let Commodity Fundamentals arm you with the up-to-the-minute information you need to trade in the historically profitable commodity marketplace?whether you are a trading veteran, a relative newcomer, or anywhere in between.