Debbie Carlson
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119 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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The easiest way for the average person is to use an exchange traded fund.
You can also buy futures.
You can buy managed futures.
But it's just much more simple for someone to buy an ETF because they could go to their brokerage account and simply buy one of the many ETFs that are out there.
When we talk about commodities, we can talk about spot prices and we talk about futures prices.
The spot price is the price of the commodity today.
The futures price is the expectations for the price in the future, which is why it's called the futures.
And there's something known as a futures curve, and traders will buy and sell and do price discovery to get a sense of what a commodity might be worth in the future based on what is known today.
The best way to look at it is to think about a broad-based commodities index.
And the reason why you want to think about broad-based is you can have exposure across the major commodity indexes in a single fund.
Commodities don't move in lockstep.
Some prices will be higher, some will be lower.
You can look right now, look gold and soft commodity prices like coffee and cocoa are up, but grains are down.
So by buying an index, it will even out the returns.
And more important, it's hard to predict when a market is going to move.
So if you don't have exposure, you will miss much of the rally if you're not invested.
So again, classic don't time the market.
It is a lot like how they would buy stocks.
And most of the commodities indexes are based on futures contracts.
And so you will have exposure for the different markets.
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