Commodity Education & Futures Education

An Introduction to the Language of the Futures Industry - National Futures Association. FREE (size57.3kb)

Trading in Futures: An Introduction for Speculators - Fundamentals of commodity speculation, the mechanics of the futures market, and trading techniques incorporating fundamental and technical analysis. FREE (size2.59mb)

Hedge Your Portfolio Using Index Stock Futures. FREE (size578kb)

Action in the Marketplace - Provides an overview of the history of the CBOT, describes the workings of the market, and explains how commodity futures contracts are traded. FREE (size3.8mb)

Getting started trading CME interest rate futures. Financial futures and the importance of futures in transferring financial risk. FREE (size1.07mb)

Currency Futures and Commodity Options - Provides an overview of the broad range of currency futures and commodity options contracts offered by NYBOT's FINEX division. FREE (size139KB)

Continuous Commodity Index (CCI) , represents the ninth revision of the original Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Index. The CCI Index consists of 17 commodity futures prices. FREE (size4.02mb)

NYMEX Energy Complex. NYMEX Energy Complex. Crude Oil, Heating Oil, Natural Gas, Unleaded Gasoline, Coal and Electricity futures contracts.FREE (size1.51mb)

Understanding Basis - use basis in commodity futures to make cash price projections, setting minimum and maximum prices for commodities, and understanding basis as alternative to price risk. FREE (size732KB)

Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) -- true "weather market commodity" -- is especially sensitive to weather conditions in Florida and Brazil as the 2004-2005 hurricane seasons reaffirmed. FREE (size578kb)

Agricultural Futures for the Beginner - Describes applications of futures contracts for those new to commodity markets. Examples of using commodity options, hedging and speculation. FREE (size53.1KB)

Sugar Futures and Commodity Options - This brochure serves as an overview of the Sugar futures and options markets the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) Free (size4.58mb)