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Commodities For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Get more bang for your buck in the commodities market and start trading today
While Wall Street has been troubled, commodity markets have been soaring. Since 2002, commodities have outperformed every other asset class including stocks, mutual funds, and real estate. This hands-on, friendly guide gives you the basics on breaking into the market, dispels common myths, and shows you how to implement a wide range of trading and investing strategies. It also helps you diversify your portfolio, measure risk, and apply market analysis techniques.
Expanded coverage of the types of commodities available to investors
Advice on how to manage the risks and rewards of commodities
Updated examples and information on SEC rules and regulations (and tax laws)
Featuring time-tested rules for investment success Commodities For Dummies helps you minimize risk, maximize profit, and find the shortest route to Easy Street.

Only gold and silver have underperformed in the recent commodity rally since the begin of the Western debt crisis in August 2007. This is all the more strange as PGM's skyrocket too. Food leads the pack by far. I expect a massive rise in gold/silver until May.

this picture actually defines the availability of clean water in the world and how maybe in the next few years or decades it will be one of the most expensive commodities in the market.. well lets hope that doesnt happen.

This download is a chapter from A Trader's First Book on Commodities: An Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Market (ISBN: 0137015453) by Carley Garner. Available in print and digital formats.

Read the following excerpt from the Introduction:

The Rise and Fall of Commodities
It was nothing less than breathtaking to witness the grain complex shatter all-time high price records and continue to climb during the 2007/2008 rally. However, by late 2008 the party had ended. Many retail traders and fund managers watched in horror as the grains made their way relentlessly lower. The selling pressure and losses in the commodity markets was so profound that hedge fund managers experienced unprecedented numbers of redemption requests, which added fuel to the already raging fire. Ironically, the same asset class that investors swarmed to for “diversification” from stocks later played a role in the demise of equities. As investors pulled money from hedge funds, margin issues and client redemptions forced funds to liquidate positions in both commodity-related and noncommodity-related speculative bets.

“There is no tool to change human nature…people are prone to recurring bouts of optimism and pessimism that manifest themselves from time to time in the buildup or cessation of speculative excesses.”
Alan Greenspan

A Commodity Rally for the History Books
Several theories attempt to explain the now infamous commodity rally, including ethanol demand, long only hedge funds, ETFs, shear market exuberance in the absence of an attractive equity market, and sidelined cash looking for a home. One thing is certain…the euphoria caused the agricultural, energy, and metals markets to overshoot their equilibrium prices.

To continue reading, download this Introduction & Chapter 5. The full book is also available for sale in print and electronic formats.

This download is a chapter from A Trader's First Book on Commodities: An Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Market (ISBN: 0137015453) by Carley Garner. Available in print and digital formats.

Read the following excerpt from the Introduction:

The Rise and Fall of Commodities
It was nothing less than breathtaking to witness the grain complex shatter all-time high price records and continue to climb during the 2007/2008 rally. However, by late 2008 the party had ended. Many retail traders and fund managers watched in horror as the grains made their way relentlessly lower. The selling pressure and losses in the commodity markets was so profound that hedge fund managers experienced unprecedented numbers of redemption requests, which added fuel to the already raging fire. Ironically, the same asset class that investors swarmed to for “diversification” from stocks later played a role in the demise of equities. As investors pulled money from hedge funds, margin issues and client redemptions forced funds to liquidate positions in both commodity-related and noncommodity-related speculative bets.

“There is no tool to change human nature…people are prone to recurring bouts of optimism and pessimism that manifest themselves from time to time in the buildup or cessation of speculative excesses.”
Alan Greenspan

A Commodity Rally for the History Books
Several theories attempt to explain the now infamous commodity rally, including ethanol demand, long only hedge funds, ETFs, shear market exuberance in the absence of an attractive equity market, and sidelined cash looking for a home. One thing is certain…the euphoria caused the agricultural, energy, and metals markets to overshoot their equilibrium prices.

To continue reading, download this Introduction & Chapter 5. The full book is also available for sale in print and electronic formats.