Category: Commodity Exchanges

One convienent feature of commodity futures contracts is that they are traded in standard units that govern specifications and the size of the contract and are traded on organized exchanges.

This standardization of contracts and central point of contact, even if these days it is largely electronic, brings additional liquidity to the market and makes possible the high volume of trading that is common place today.

Links to important commodity exchanges are on the right hand sidebar of this blog under “Commodity Exchanges”.  Each exchange has a world of information about the commodities traded on their exchange.

The exchanges presently listed are:

 CBT: Chicago Board of Trade

DME: Dubai Mercantile Exchange

NYMEX: New York Mercantile Exchange

Euronext.LIFFE: London International Financial Futures Exchange

LME: London Metal Exchange