www.CandleStickForums.com Market Commodities What are the market commodities that I can trade in? Market commodities, just in agricultural products, include corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, and oats. However, there is more to the commodities market in crops than just the grains listed. Corn includes mini-corn, corn swaps, and corn calendar spread options. Wheat also includes mini-wheat, wheat swaps, and wheat calendar spread options. Soybeans are the same but you add the same mix for soybean meal and then soybean crush. The commodities trader needs to keep commodity trading charts on each commodity that he or she is dealing in. Speaking of the use of charts for commodities trading, it brings us to the oldest recorded method of charting and predicting commodity prices which is still in use today, Candlestick trading. Active traders in market commodities may wish to follow more than just one or two commodities. The advantage of Candlestick chart analysis over following columns of figures is that Candlestick pattern formations are easier to recognize than the same information hidden in dense groupings of text. Commodity trading in rice used Candlestick basics as long as three hundred years ago. Traders developed Candlestick charting techniques that are in use today, not just in trading commodities but in the stock market, options trading, and the futures market as well. Fundamental analysis certainly applies to all market commodities. If industrial production is down in China, futures on steel products from Australia may suffer. The fact that the Asian economies seem to be leading the way out of the recession bodes well for raw goods that are imported for Chinese industry. News of the weather precedes crop reports and is a strong predictor of yield. However, it is rare that one person trading commodities is the only person with market news relative to the analysis of fundamentals. Because the trader does not have a head start on the market he or she needs to be aware of how the market is behaving or in order to be either bullish or bearish in the market.