Thursday, February 20, 2014

CFD Trading: Coffee

Coffee is a commodity and is under the section commodity on the trading platforms.

Coffee is produced in developing countries as Brazil and Africa.

Weather and coffee
The weather has effect on the outcome of the coffee production; in Brazil is the weather dry and hot.

January 2014
Brazil is hit by a drought and is on its way into the dry season; which has an effect the coffee production and the price of coffee.

In February 2014 has the price of coffee raised from 140 to 174 dollars per contract. The 20 of February is the price decreased from 174 to 163.
Price of coffee
The prices of coffee raised from 108 to 287 from 2009 to May 2011; the price has since decreased from 287 to 163.
Please note
This post is only an illustration of how the weather has an effect on the coffee prices. Please note also my disclaimer.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

CFD Trading: Corn

Corn is a commodity; the US and China are countries that produce most corn. The production of corn starts in April to June where the corn is planted; Harvest is from August to late October.


CFD trading
Corn is in the section commodity on the trading platform; with the latter C or ZC.

The corn price often follows the trend; it is either moving up or down. Some of the best times to trade are around the Corp reports.    

The later the corn is planted the higher the price might get as it is an indicator of a low outcome of the season.

Price of Corn
The price of corn is almost on the same level as it was in 2009; since 2009 the price have increased from 410 dollars to 817 dollars in July 2012; the price is in February 2014 442 dollars.

The price chart illustrates the corn market as a trend following market.


Monday, February 17, 2014

An Online Trading Platform

Are you considering trading on another CFD trading platform or just want to try an alternative trading platform? Plus500 might be a good alternative.

Money in segregated accounts
One advantage using Plus500 is how they hold your deposited money and the money you gain on your CFD trading; they place the money in segregated accounts which mean your money cannot be used by Plus500 for any purpose.

More information is at Plus500’s website about how they hold your money is at “abou us” and at “your funds is safe with us”. 

Simple trading platform
In connection to trading CFD is the trading platform simple and easy to use, which means you fast can learn the features of the trading platform.

More information about the trading platform is at Plus500’s website in the demonstration video “Watch how it works”.

Registration
There are different ways to start trading on the platform.

The easiest way is to download the trading platform and write your email address and a password in the login box; the registration gives access to the demo account.   

More information about the advantages trading on the demo account is at Plus500’s website  at “help” and “trading with demo funds”.

Another way to start trading on the platform is to registers as a user and receives the welcome bonus and first deposit bonus if a deposit is made.

More information about the welcome bonus and first deposit bonus is at Plus500’s website.

CFD trading is a leveraged product
Please notice that your capita may be at risk trading CFD.