commodities

Commodities can be described as physical goods such as food grains and metals that are traded by futures contracts.

Just as investors trade stocks, commodities are also traded over future exchanges in a bid to make profits. The demand and supply of these commodities decide the price of the commodities being traded.

When commodities are traded, the process is known as futures trading. The future trading is different from stock trading in the sense that in the former case, you do not actually own or buy anything as in stock trading.

At times, it has been seen that futures trading is confused with options trading. Options trading is defined as the contract to buy or sell an underlying asset at a predetermined price before a fixed date in the future.

The assets that are traded under options trading are generally stocks, currencies and stock indices whereas in futures trading commodities like food grains and metals are traded.

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