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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.

EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Carbon credits & allowances 66 Extreme Two markets in one fingerprint — a regulated compliance instrument, and a voluntary certificate trade with serious integrity problems.
  • Cocoa 63 Extreme Concentrated supply and a thin deliverable float: the squeeze-prone shape of a market with nowhere for new supply to come from.
  Carbon credits & allowances Cocoa
Exit difficulty 3 3
Volatility 4 5
Leverage 3 4
Carry cost 3 3
Fraud risk 4 2
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 4 4
Expertise needed 5 4
Difficulty 66 Extreme 63 Extreme
In a sentence The right to emit a tonne of CO₂ — a commodity created entirely by policy, in two markets that are frequently confused and behave nothing alike.Grown almost entirely in West Africa by smallholders paid a fixed farmgate price, and subject to the most extreme commodity squeeze of recent years.
Unit One tonne of CO₂ equivalent Metric tonne
Smallest realistic trade Compliance lots; voluntary credits in smaller parcels London contract of 10 tonnes
Settlement Registry transfer and retirement Physical delivery against graded stocks

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