Futures, Commodities, & Options

The derivatives markets have exploded in popularity, trading volume, and complexity over the years, providing more investing and trading choices than ever before. Whether making a directional bet, volatility play, or hedging risk, derivatives allow you to calibrate every position to maximize profit and minimize risk. Learn powerful analysis methods, diverse trade set-ups, and execution techniques from top professional investors and traders.

Articles on Futures, Commodities, & Options

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Bloomberg recently reported that commodities are getting sucked into a global short volatility trade. But what does that mean – and how can you capitalize? Here are my thoughts, explains Eoin Treacy, editor of Fuller Treacy Money.
After gold hit repeated all-time highs last week, silver may finally come out of its multi-year consolidation and start catching up with the yellow metal this week, states Fawad Razaqzada of Trading Candles.
I just spent five days in Toronto attending and speaking at two back-to-back mining conferences. The second was the truly massive PDAC conference. There’s an expression in the mining world: The PDAC Curse. But we may have seen the “curse” go into “reverse” this year, and that’s bullish for silver, writes Peter Krauth, editor of Silver Stock Investor.
While the United States has embarked on self-defeating and short-sighted energy policies, it appears that the OPEC long game led by Saudi Arabia is starting to pay off, states Phil Flynn of PRICE Futures Group.
Gold closed at a new record high on Tuesday but stopped short of hitting a new all-time high, states Fawad Razaqzada of Trading Candles.
The stock market is near new all-time highs and getting all the attention, states JC Parets of AllStarCharts.com.
"There is a great deal of uncertainty in correctly valuing today’s market, according to our top 100 fund managers," says Ken Kam, who monitors the buying and selling activity of the m100 - a group which represents the 100 top performing fund managers among the 60,000 members that operates virtual funds on the Marketocracy web site. Here's the outlook from the top performers.
Agricultural futures markets in the US and Europe slowly eroded during February with US corn, wheat, and soybeans ending mostly 5-7% lower for the month, says Chad Burlet of Third Street Ag Investments, LLC.
The spot price of uranium dropped 10% over the last two weeks – and some investors freaked out. I am not freaking out. In fact, I’m using this pullback to buy more uranium exposure. Let me explain why, counsels Gwen Preston, editor of Resource Maven.

Experts on Futures, Commodities, & Options


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Inflation. Growth. Credit. These are three key forces that will impact America’s economic outlook in 2024. The only question is...how? Will cooling inflation allow the Federal Reserve to not only stop raising interest rates, but potentially cut them? Will growth slow, but not grind to a halt, encouraging stock investors to take on more risk? Will the credit markets continue to tighten, without seizing up? Get the answers YOU need to those questions and more in this hard-hitting panel featuring top economists and investment strategists. Then put the guidance you receive to work in your portfolio in 2024.

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The natural resources sector offers a wealth of profit opportunities. Precious metals can help shield you against the rampages of inflation and currency debasement, while base and energy metals can offer you exposure to demand drivers like foreign economic growth and the EV explosion. Learn about profit opportunities in resources like nickel, copper, and silver from the companies getting their hands dirty in the industry. 

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The growth of financial futures has been one of the most remarkable success stories in the markets. Their age is relatively green at just a little over 50 years old. Originally created to help farmers hedge against price changes between crop planting and harvesting, futures have grown since then to include interest rates, foreign exchange, metals, energy, weather, and even Bitcoin.

Whether trading agricultural commodities, energy futures, metals, stock indexes, or even the softs; futures provide the best bang for your buck. But leverage is a two-sided blade. In this section, MoneyShow.com trading experts provide a deep dive into the current futures market activity and price action to help you find ways to strengthen your portfolio, while mitigating risk and exploiting opportunities in these diverse markets.

Discover unique and critical futures trading strategies to help you generate more consistent profits and better manage your portfolio risk. From in-depth futures market economics to spread trading, you will take away new knowledge to help you better identify trading opportunities. Our contributors will share with you their time-tested commodities investing strategies and futures trading strategies. The insights you will learn will help you in your investing or trading with market intelligence that you cannot find elsewhere.

At the same time, the opportunities now available to individual traders in the option arena are astounding, having exploded in volume and complexity in recent years, offering option traders the ability to trade, hedge, or speculate in just about any stock, ETF, or commodity.

Our goal in these pages is to start you down the path of options trading and help you avoid many of the pitfalls that beginning options traders experience. Some of the top names in trading will familiarize you with options—what they are, how they work, and what opportunities they present. You’ll learn practical knowledge about when it is appropriate to buy/sell puts or calls, covered-call writing strategies, and advice on when to use each of these strategies. More experienced traders will learn profitable options trading strategies to help you make more money and better manage your portfolio risk.