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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Coffee 59 Tough Frost-driven volatility on a leveraged contract that most individuals can only touch through derivatives.
  • 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.
  Coffee Cocoa
Exit difficulty 3 3
Volatility 5 5
Leverage 4 4
Carry cost 3 3
Fraud risk 2 2
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 3 4
Expertise needed 4 4
Difficulty 59 Tough 63 Extreme
In a sentence A tropical crop from a narrow band of the world, traded in two grades, and prone to some of the most violent price moves in agriculture.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 Pound (arabica) or metric tonne (robusta) Metric tonne
Smallest realistic trade Arabica lot of 37,500 lb; robusta lot of 10 tonnes London contract of 10 tonnes
Settlement Physical delivery against graded warehouse stocks Physical delivery against graded stocks

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