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Commodities: Fab Four And A Motley Crew
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“You can get ETFs through most brokers, but they are generally for a relatively sophisticated investor,” says Matthew Samelson, principal at Woodbine Associates.
A commodity future is an agreement to buy or sell a given commodity at specific price on a specific delivery date. It is advantageous because it is a pure play on price behavior, and because you can access them 24 hours a day.
“When used with appropriate risk management strategies like stops or options, an individual investor not only has the opportunity to catch upside but protect yourself against the downside,” says Klopfenstein. The bad news with futures is that you can get yourself in to trouble with leverage.
Like other mutual funds, commodity funds give investors the option of adding diversified commodities to their portfolio and limit the risk associated with the commodities market. A lot of them you can invest as little as five or ten thousand dollars in so it doesn’t take a lot of money to invest in those.
Oppenheimer, PIMCO, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, for example, all offer commodity mutual funds. If you don’t want to talk to you broker ten times a day, you might be better off with a commodity fund.
The bottom line—find what works for you. And, if you’re serious about putting commodities in your life, with the expected rally in the market, there is no time like the present.
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