Friday, January 24, 2014

CFD Trading: Cotton

Cotton is a commodity and is used in the fashion industry to produce close etc.


How is the price set in the cotton market?
The price is set by demand and supply; but there are restrictions in the market price.

Government policies
One restriction is government policies; in China is the cotton brought by the government at a fixed price and sold at a lower price.

The price of cotton produced in China is higher than the world price.

The world price is set by local prices; the local prices differ from one country to another country.

The price on cotton and competitive products
Another restriction is the price and competitive products; if the price for cotton is high the farmers will produce cotton; as the price is set by demand and supply; the price will start to fall cause to the higher rate of farmers producing cotton; the lower price of cotton makes another product more profitable to produce and the production of cotton will fall and the price of cotton will start to increase.

Analyzing the price chart for cotton
The price for cotton has been falling since February 2011; the reason is the production of cotton has been high. At the present is the market not short on cotton.

CFD Trading and Cotton
Cotton is in the section commodity on the online trading platform; the price range has the last year been among 95 and 86 dollars.