FX COMMODITIES
COMMODITIES A Dummy’s guide for FX traders
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COMMODITY SECTORS
Commodity Sectors: a summary table SUB-SECTORS MOST KNOWN
Energy Products
Crude Oil Natural Gas Coal
Uranium Ethanol
Precious Metals
Gold Silver
Platinum Palladium
Non-Ferrous Metals
Industrial Metals Ferrous Metals Minor Metals
Aluminum Copper Nickel Zinc Lead Tin
Iron Ore Steel
Cobalt Lithium
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Livestock Products
Agricultural Products
Other Soft Commodities
ommodities are a fascinating and diversified world, even more than FX.
I recently received a spectacular research paper from Deutsche Bank: “A User Guide to Commodities”. 135 pages (!).With such a powerful source of data and information at my disposal I have tried to highlight some basic facts as a starting point. Whoever would like to go deeper in understanding these markets should
COMMODITIES Industrial Metals
Rare Earth Metals
find this reading interesting.
After putting down a map of different commodity classes and their brief description, we’ve decided to show some tables for main exporters and importers in most relevant markets. This should be relevant in judging term of trade impact from change in prices that usually
affects currencies Minor Metals
Magnesium Manganese Molybdenum Titanium Tungsten Vanadium Cerium
Lanthanum Yttrium Ytterbium
Grains Oils and Oilseeds
Corn Wheat Rice
Palm Oil Soybeans
Cocoa Coffee Cotton Rubber Sugar
Live Cattle Pork Bellies
levels. For such a scope export / import
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