Extension course for trading commodities

Made available to the finance community once again after a criminal absence, Extension Course For Trading Commodities provides outstanding coverage to the field of commodities and futures. It is based on a course originally launched in 1934 and, arranged in a unique course format style, starts by looking at the fundamentals such as the effects inflationary factors have on commodity pricing and supply and demand. It considers the effects of agricultural policies, rules, regulations and orders, and discusses the effect that environmental events have on the commodities market. The authors study the technical aspects of this field, highlighting their theories with a generous supply of charts, tables and worked examples, all of which are as current today as they were when first conceived.

The purpose of this course is to assist traders in determining what is a balance between supply and requirement; how to determine whether the price bas discounted bullish or bearish conditions; and then how to determine when and at what price levels to make a trade that will prove most lucrative.

Ever since the birth of speculative markets, forecasting future price movements has been the biggest of challenges for market participants at every level. We all could easily throw up our hands in desperation because any attempt to predict the unpredictable seems a fruitless cause, or we could read Extension Course For Trading Commodities and make best use of the wisdom held within. Using the grain market analogy, this course is as valuable today as it was in the 1930s and 1940s. It provides the reader with a historical yet current treatment of the commodities market. Today's traders, financiers and students will find this work interesting, enthralling, and above all, enlightening.