Commodity
All goods that are subject to trade called commodities. Because commodities especially used in manufacturing, they have important strategic information about a country or global economy. Commodities subjet to trade such as gold, oil, copper and platinum also used for raw and intermediate materials. Commodity prices can provide information about the general economic trend. İncreasing the volume of production in the global economy of the formation of expectations for the future can be determined by the course of commodity prices. For example, demand for gold is often formed due to policies carried out by the central banks to set up reserves. Because this condition determines the cost of production, it is also effects the global outlook.
Oil has an important place in the same way as commodity group. Periods of falling oil production or excess supply, as occured in the recent period, also affects the level of the oil prices. Oil price affects country and central bank policies and individual spendings, that is why it is important for the future of the global economy. As the price of oil affect household spending and the policy of the central bank in terms of influence on issues such as inflation has a significant impact on currencies. In addition to this, other subject to trade goods can be considered in this context. The mobility of prices in recent years has attracted the attention of investors. This is due to the volatility of commodity prices can also be carried through trade.
For example, many commodities can be traded at the current price on AHL Forex MT4 platform. Price movements of many kinds of commodities such as oil, gold, platinum can be used as an invesment tool. In fact, recently the share of commodity trading in Forex market is high in Turkey. Gold, oil and silver investment is getting more popular everyday but gold has the highest market share. International developments are having an impact of ounce gold and domestic developments on gram gold prices. Specially, gold trading company mainly dealing with institutional Forex market can hedge itself by forex market to minimize its risks.
