Are you interested in Commodity Trading?

With the growing turmoil in the world wide financial markets, and the relevant regulators placing restrictions on short selling of equities, more and more people are looking at ways to trade in commodities.

Commodities provide much higher potential for profits no matter which way the market is going.  Of course where there is potential for rapid gain, there is also the potential for rapid losses, and with commodities you can actually lose more money than you started with. 

Another advantage of trading commodities is that the markets are much more liquid, meaning that you can get in and out whenever you want to.

From an analysis point of view, Commodities are better to trade as you only have to monitor one or two securities, rather than trying to analyze many stocks in your portfolio, or searching for the right stock to buy.  There are less than 100 commodities worldwide, but over 50,000 stocks.

Successful Commodity Traders 

Some of the most successful commodity traders that I have met over the years have been those that pick one commodity to trade and then devote all their time to learning how to understand that commodity.  They will use advanced software tools that allow them to apply analysis to assist them in deciding which way the commodity is going to go.

One of the most successful traders ever was W.D. Gann, a Commodity trader from the 1920s.  In the time of the great depression, where the world was in a great financial panic like today, he is reported to have amassed a fortune of $50,000,000.  It was this fact that first drew me into the world of Gann based Technical Analysis.  Gann was a phenomenal mathematician who could do complex analysis of commodities and pick with certainty the actual turning points of any market. 

Commodity Trading Software 

As a Software Engineer I wanted to repeat many of Gann’s techniques in a charting application so that traders like you and me who are not mathematicians could still use the advanced techniques that Gann used to assist his trading.  Over the last decade I have met with many of the greatest educators who use Gann techniques in their trading, learning from them how to apply these techniques in an advanced charting application.
So what do you need to trade commodities?

1. A commodity trading account (sometimes called a futures trading account).  You can search on the internet and compare the various brokers in your area.  Be careful of the cheapest broker as sometimes they can delay taking your order to market causing you to miss the prices you wanted.

2. If you are new to technical analysis, you will need to learn some techniques that you can use.  I have put together a list of educators around the world that I trust to provide good quality education.  We do not get any commissions for this.  I just passionately believe that you need a good education if you are going to trade and take advantage of this market. Recommended Market Educators

3. You need good quality software.  That’s where I come in.  Market Analyst is the software that I have developed over the last decade.  My aim has always been to include all the techniques that an advanced trader would need to be able to quickly analyze a security and use their knowledge and Market Analyst’s power to make some great trading decisions.

Download Market Analyst

Download Market Analyst with access to the US Commodity markets today.  Just click on the link below and within minutes you can be up and running and analyzing the commodity of your choice.