🌾 Commodities trading, explained

Commodities are the basic physical goods that feed the global economy: energies like crude oil and natural gas, metals like gold and copper, and agricultural products like wheat, coffee and sugar. Their prices are driven by real-world supply and demand — weather, geopolitics, production cuts and economic cycles.

For traders, commodities offer exposure to themes that behave differently from stocks and currencies, which is why they’re often used to diversify or to trade a specific macro view, such as an oil supply shock or a flight to gold.

Retail traders access commodities almost entirely through CFDs on either the spot price or the underlying futures, letting you go long or short with leverage without handling any physical goods or managing futures expiry directly.

Commodities can be volatile — energy prices in particular can move sharply on news — so leverage cuts both ways quickly here. Costs are the familiar spread plus overnight financing, and some commodity CFDs track futures contracts that roll over periodically.

Some of the most widely traded instruments in this market:

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