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They include agricultural commodity futures like rice, sugar, wheat, oats, soybeans etc; energy commodity futures like heating oil, crude oil, natural gas, etc; metals & stones like gold, silver, diamond etc; and others such as animals, wood etc. In USA all these futures trading process is monitored by the federal agency Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Commodity futures contracts are contracts which end with a cash settlement. The rate is usually the price rate of the contract creation. The initial capital investment changes according to the type of the contract you are trading, to the method of trading you follows and to the account features of futures trading broker. Like stocks and options trading, futures trades are done in precise centralized futures commodity trading markets like Globex and S&P. Futures trading is becoming more and more popular, this may be because of a lot of reasons such as; simplicity in trading enabling virtually any one to trade, more liquidity of the market due to the high volume of trades done each day, the stability of market as a result of high liquidity, price stabilization between markets mostly because of arbitragers, easy in owning underlying commodity product rather than looking for reduced price values, low transfer rates imposed by trading brokers, the easy to go short or long at any time, requirement of comparatively small initial investments, easy to set up an account and trade from home, availability of mini, standard or large futures contracts, and the availability of a variety of underlying products and commodities. Speculators are the actual futures traders trading for profit. Irrespective of the type they are responsible for maintaining trader records such as the trader's margin deposits, money balances, open futures and transaction completed. In return of these services provided the futures trading broker will charge a fee, depending up on the trading frequency, trading volume
