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What is Metal Trading
What you'll learn
The difference between precious metals and industrial metals
How metal markets operate (spot, futures, ETFs, and CFDs)
Factors that influence metal prices (e.g., inflation, supply/demand, geopolitics)
Common trading strategies for gold, silver, copper, and more
How to analyze metal markets using technical and fundamental tools
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Trading Silver
What you'll learn
The fundamentals of the silver market and how XAG/USD is traded in forex and CFD platforms
Key economic indicators and industrial factors that influence silver prices
The relationship between silver, gold, and the US dollar — and how to use it to your advantage
How to apply charting tools, price action, and technical indicators to trade XAG/USD
Trading strategies tailored to silver’s volatility, including trend, range, and breakout setups
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Trading Gold
What you'll learn
The fundamentals of gold trading and how XAU/USD works in the forex and CFD markets
Key economic, geopolitical, and technical factors that influence gold prices
How to use gold as part of a risk management or diversification strategy
How to apply technical indicators and charting tools specifically to gold markets
Strategies for trading gold in different market conditions — ranging from trend-following to breakout trading
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Introduction to Crude Oil
What you'll learn
Crude oil is a naturally occurring, non-renewable resource that's a fundamental component of the global economy. It's a raw material, often referred to as "black gold," that's refined into various petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. Understanding crude oil involves grasping its formation, extraction, refining, global trading, and the factors influencing its price.
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Introduction to Base Metals
What you'll learn
Base metals are non-ferrous industrial metals including copper, aluminum, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. These metals appear in both industrial and commercial applications, therefore list of market participants who could hedge their price risk is vast. Some firms are hedging a physical price exposure due to their involvement in the supply chain of the metal, while others trade base metals as an investment asset. Discover how base metals futures can help you take part in the opportunities of this market, from how the contracts are constructed to how they may fit into your trading strategy.
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Introduction to Natural Gas
What you'll learn
The structure of the natural gas market has evolved over time and become one of the most competitive, efficient, transparent, and liquid natural gas futures and options market in the world. Explore the basics of natural gas infrastructure, key impacts like seasonality that affect supply and demand, as well as hedging physical product using futures and options products.
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Precious Metals
What you'll learn
How to Manage Precious Metals Price Risk
There are numerous examples of how future and options can be used to manage economic risks inherent in commercial operations and in investment portfolios. This module discusses risk management using COMEX and NYMEX Precious Metals futures.
Market prices respond to changing circumstances. We all know that prices will be different in the future to how they are today, but we do not know how different they will be. At a more basic level, while some people make predictions, no one knows with certainty whether prices will be higher or lower in the future.
