Trade Commodities with AFX

  • Commission Free Trading
  • Trade Multiple Commodities such as precious metals, agriculture and energy products.
  • Leverage contracts which allows low margin requirements
  • Excellent products to hedge your exposure

Market Hours — Commodities are traded according to the exchange of the underlying instrument. See CFD specifications for more details

Major Commodities exchanges — New York Mercantile (NYMEX) , Chicago Board of Trade(CBOT)

A commodity is a good for which there is demand, often consisting of raw or primary products. These raw commodities are traded regularly on commodities exchanges, in which they are bought and sold in regulated contracts .Some examples of commodities are petroleum, milk and paper. Well-established physical commodities actively trade against spot as well as derivative markets. These are generally agricultural products such as corn, coffee, soybean and more just to name a few.

Markets for trading commodities can be very efficient, quickly responding to changes in supply and demand in order to maintain balance between prices and availability.

Commodities markets have seen a surge in the level of trading throughout the recent decade. Global physical exports of commodities increased by 17%, whilst the value of commodity OTC (over the counter) derivatives increased more than 500% and commodity derivative trading on exchanges more.

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