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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Aluminium 53 Tough Effectively a bet on the price of electricity, reachable only through professional channels.
  • Wheat 53 Tough A hedger's market — leveraged futures, weather-driven swings and basis risk that only specialists price well.
  Aluminium Wheat
Exit difficulty 2 2
Volatility 3 4
Leverage 4 4
Carry cost 3 3
Fraud risk 2 2
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 4 3
Expertise needed 4 4
Difficulty 53 Tough 53 Tough
In a sentence Effectively solidified electricity: light, abundant, and priced mostly by the cost of the power used to smelt it.The commodity that feeds more people than any other, hedged by farmers and millers and traded on weather forecasts from four continents.
Unit Metric tonne Bushel (US) or metric tonne (Europe)
Smallest realistic trade LME lot of 25 tonnes CME lot of 5,000 bushels; ICE London feed wheat in 100-tonne lots
Settlement LME prompt dates Physical delivery against warehouse receipts, or cash settlement

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