Commodity price trends are a hot topic among some of my clients and audience members. This is the first of three articles about commodity price, covering basic material that someone buying or selling ...

Commodity trading has a rich and colorful history going all the way back to the mid 1800s. Our “Industrial Revolution” brought new technologies and abilities to produce more efficient tools and ...

Trading options can be a complicated process. Information overload among the uninitiated is prevalent, as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible ...

In the next few weeks, we will review the various types of investments that an investor may consider, and in today’s column we will examine one of the riskiest types of investments-commodities. These ...

A commodity ETF is an exchange-traded fund that invests exclusively in commodities like gold, silver, oil, or agricultural products like livestock or milk. Commodity ETFs invest in commodities stored ...

Derivatives, as the name suggest, is derived from an underlying which can be a stock or a commodity etc. Derivative contracts can be futures or options. Since you’ve asked specifically about options, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...