In the last two articles we looked at what commodities are, the categories that they are broken up into, a brief history of commodities and how the commodities market has evolved into what it is today, how investors use commodities to diversify their portfolios, we took a look at some real commodity exchanges (such as […]

In the last segment we looked at what commodities are and how investors use them to diversify their portfolios. To quickly recap, commodities can be broken down to four major groups: Metals Energies Livestock and Meat Agricultural These four categories have developed over the course of human progression as we have industrialised and streamlined the […]

In this 3 part series we are going to have a look at commodities, what are they, and how can you get involved with trading them. While there are so many diverse ways to trade them, some being relatively simple and others immense complex, we are not going to look at every single possible way […]

The term “Forex” stands for Foreign Exchange. In short, buying or selling one currency for another. Since businesses, countries and individual people participate in the market, it is such an easy market to get into without a large amount of capital. It is the most heavily traded market in the world with trillions of dollars […]

Types of Markets Part 1: Synthetic Indices Synthetic Indices: What are they and how do you trade them? Back in the day, trading was simple. You physically had to go to your broker, put in an order and read the newspaper every day to see how your stocks are doing. These days it is a […]