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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Nickel 63 Extreme The contract that proved an exchange can cancel trades after the fact. High barrier, high expertise, and a squeeze risk no other metal matches.
  • 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.
  Nickel 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 4 4
Expertise needed 4 4
Difficulty 63 Extreme 63 Extreme
In a sentence A stainless steel and battery metal, and the subject of the most extraordinary market failure in recent exchange history.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 Metric tonne Metric tonne
Smallest realistic trade LME lot of 6 tonnes London contract of 10 tonnes
Settlement LME prompt dates Physical delivery against graded stocks

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