Online Commodity Trading

Trading commodities and futures online has many benefits over using a full service commodity broker. Much lower commissions is probably the best reason, but you really can't rely on a broker to make all the trading decisions for you, unless he has proven to be a good trader over time.

Review of Online Futures Broker - Generic Trade. This is an online futures broker that offers very low rates with no contingencies. That means there are no account minimums and you don't have to make a certain amount of trades to get their stated commission rate.

Online commodities trading is often compared to gambling. While many traders do resemble gamblers, the disciplined commodity futures traders are able to fight the urge to gamble and they have become very successful traders. Learn how you can distinguish between trading and gambling and how you can overcome gambling.

Learn about online trading platforms for commodity and futures traders. A trading platform allows commodity traders to place trades electronically from their own computer. The software program allows trades exection, account monitioring, quotes and charts, and other features for traders.

Trading commodities online is a fairly simple process to get started, but it is not something that should be entered into lightly. The traditional method of calling your commodity broker to place orders and waiting for a callback to give you a filled order price is quickly coming to an end. Therefore, if you want to trade commodities online, we will cover the process of how to start.

A question and answer session with Matt Zimberg of Optimus Futures. Matt has vast experience in helping commodity traders navigate through online futures trading and using managed futures as an alternative to making their own trading decisions.

A review of ExpressFutures.com. This company is an online futures broker. We examine their commission rates, trading platforms, research and the overall quality of this futures broker to report to our readers.

Online commodities trading has many benefits to commodity traders, but it also has many dangers to the novice trader.

A review of Interactive Brokers where the focus is on the online futures broker part of their business. We are looking for low commission rates, trading platform, research and overall quality of this futures broker to report to our readers.

Review of TradeStation Securities, which is an online futures broker that executes trades on futures, stocks and options.

Daniels Trading is an online futures brokers that provides discount rates, research and system trading.

One of the oldest and most popular discount and online futures brokers.

A discount online futures broker with a browser-based trading platform and a nice variety of tools to help with your trading.