Hello, Dear friends! I have been trading since 2005. I'm looking for the direction of entire the commodity market. The movement of the entire commodity market determine more easily than the movement of the individual commodities. This topic will be considered a futures index Thomson Reuters / CoreCommodity CRB Excess Return (TRJCRB)
The index was created in 1957. At the first time index consists of 28 components, 26 of which were in circulation in the US and Canadian markets. It included the barley and flax with Winnipeg commodity exchange, cocoa, coffee, class "B", copper, cotton, cottonseed oil, wool, hides, lead, potatoes, rubber, sugar, number 4 and number 6, wool and zinc from New York Stock Exchange, corn, eggs, oil, oats, onion, rye, soybeans, soybean meal, soybean oil and wheat with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and 2 spot positions - cotton in New Orleans and wheat in Minneapolis.
From time to time the index components have changed. Since 1957, it held ten revisions of the index components. The first review took place in 1961 and the last in 2005.
Today, the index includes 19 commodities.
The composition of the index:
Energy raw materials - 39%
WTI crude oil - 23%
Natural gas - 6%
Heating Oil- 5%
Gasoline RBOB - 5%
Agricultural products - 41%
Corn - 6%
Soybeans - 6%
Live Cattle - 6%
Cotton - 5%
Coffee - 5%
Cocoa - 5%
Sugar - 5%
Orange juice - 1%
Lean Hogs - 1%
Wheat - 1%
Precious metals - 7%
Gold - 6%
Silver - 1%
Industrial metals - 13%
Aluminium - 6%
Copper - 6%
Nickel - 1%
The index is not traded. It is used for general information about the movement of the commodity market. CRB on-line:
http://www.investing.com/indices/tho...-jefferies-crb
I consider the overall situation in the global economy and give a forecast.
The index was created in 1957. At the first time index consists of 28 components, 26 of which were in circulation in the US and Canadian markets. It included the barley and flax with Winnipeg commodity exchange, cocoa, coffee, class "B", copper, cotton, cottonseed oil, wool, hides, lead, potatoes, rubber, sugar, number 4 and number 6, wool and zinc from New York Stock Exchange, corn, eggs, oil, oats, onion, rye, soybeans, soybean meal, soybean oil and wheat with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and 2 spot positions - cotton in New Orleans and wheat in Minneapolis.
From time to time the index components have changed. Since 1957, it held ten revisions of the index components. The first review took place in 1961 and the last in 2005.
Today, the index includes 19 commodities.
The composition of the index:
Energy raw materials - 39%
WTI crude oil - 23%
Natural gas - 6%
Heating Oil- 5%
Gasoline RBOB - 5%
Agricultural products - 41%
Corn - 6%
Soybeans - 6%
Live Cattle - 6%
Cotton - 5%
Coffee - 5%
Cocoa - 5%
Sugar - 5%
Orange juice - 1%
Lean Hogs - 1%
Wheat - 1%
Precious metals - 7%
Gold - 6%
Silver - 1%
Industrial metals - 13%
Aluminium - 6%
Copper - 6%
Nickel - 1%
The index is not traded. It is used for general information about the movement of the commodity market. CRB on-line:
http://www.investing.com/indices/tho...-jefferies-crb
I consider the overall situation in the global economy and give a forecast.
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