For traders comfortable with volatility and willing to take on the emotional load of rapid market swings, outrights offer clearer potential for outsized returns. But that upside comes with the cost of ...

For retirees (or soon-to-be retirees), futures contracts can offer an additional avenue for diversification and hedging opportunities, helping to manage market volatility. However, there are a few ...

The iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust offers diversified exposure to commodities futures, with significant weighting in energy, metals, and some agriculture. GSG is best suited for tactical, ...

Retail traders now have a new way to trade derivatives on agricultural commodities. CME Group has produced a suite of "micro" contracts on grain and oilseed futures. Bite-sized options can help ...

Silver futures trading involves an agreement between a buyer and a seller in which physical silver will be bought by the buyer and delivered by the seller for a fixed price at a date set in the future ...

Commodity prices often move based on escalating geopolitical tensions, as they did last spring in the wake of surgical strikes on Iran by Israel and supported by the United States. More recently, ...