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Intro To Commodity Trading

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This course is a broad overview and discussion of the salient subject areas that one will need to navigate to fully understand the commodity space.

  • Entering Orders
  • Common Mistakes
  • Rules and regulations
  • Markets and Exchanges
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Fundamental Analysis

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Students will be introduced to what makes each of the commodity sectors tick from an international economic standpoint.

  • Grains - corn, wheat, rice
  • Metals - gold, silver, copper
  • Energies - crude oil, gas
  • Softs - coffee, sugar, cocoa
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Technical
Analysis

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This course sets the record straight about what is a predictive indicator and what is a lagging indicator in the commodity markets.

  • Studies in Price
  • Volume & Open Interest
  • Technical Indicators
  • Markets in Backwardation
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Trading
Psychology

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This course investigates why certain traders become great and why others blow up. Be prepared to journal extensively and learn about your strengths and weaknesses.

  • What You've Learned About Money
  • How Personality Shows Up in Trading
  • Ego and Self-Esteem in Trading
  • Self-Awareness
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About

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Michael Martin

Michael Martin has been a successful trader for 20 years. He’s been teaching for the last 11 of those years, mostly through UCLA Extension and the CFA Institute.

During that time, he also served as Associate Editor at Trader Monthly. Now he blogs at The Huffington Post, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, as well as this blog.

He believes that it is incumbent upon established traders to educate the general community of incoming traders, not just the proprietary traders they hire at their own firms.

He has condensed all the valuable lessons he’s learned through his own reading, his own trading experiences, and that from having interacted with some of the world’s best traders, and created the Sequential Certificate Program in Commodity Studies. It is an online, self-study program available through UCLA Extension that is available anytime you have an internet connection, 24/7.

Examples listed on this blog are mostly for beginning and intermediate traders, while the podcasts and video are geared towards more advanced traders. While reading the posts and examples, don’t make any assumptions other than the facts given.

Please add a live link to this blog when quoting material.

Creative Commons License Editorial by Michael Martin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at martinkronicle.com. Copyright 2009 MartinKronicle

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