Commodity trading

Commodity trading is buying and selling the price of raw materials like gold, oil, gas and copper, almost always through contracts rather than the goods. The prices are made in London, New York and Shanghai, in dollars, and they behave differently because of how each one is stored. An oil price taken apart, one claim at a time; what is listed on Mochatrade.

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  • CopperCopper is the industrial metal priced three ways: LME in dollars per tonne, COMEX in cents per pound, Shanghai in…
  • Crude oil (WTI vs Brent)Crude oil trades as two benchmarks: WTI at the Cushing pipeline hub on NYMEX, and Brent at sea on ICE, which prices…
  • Silver futuresSilver futures are contracts on silver, mainly on COMEX in dollars per troy ounce. More than half of silver goes into…
  • Troy ounceA troy ounce is 31.1035 grams, the unit gold, silver, platinum and palladium are priced in, about 10% heavier than an…
  • LMEThe LME is the London Metal Exchange, started in a coffee house in 1877, where copper, aluminium, nickel and zinc are…
  • Pre-IPO stocksPre-IPO stocks are shares of private companies before they list, priced in private funding rounds with no public order…

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