

How are various commodities doing? Which commodities are performing or trending better currently? How to invest in commodities using stocks or ETF funds?



It is now possible for stock market investors to participate in commodities markets (Energy, Materials - metals including gold & silver, Agricultural & Livestock).



One can implicitly participate by buying stocks of companies involved in commodity business. Or now, one can explicitly buy exchange traded funds (ETF) that track specific commodities like oil, gold and silver.



Now, let us see how the major commodities are faring year to date. First, the commodity trackers - Agriculture [-12%] Natural Gas [-24%] Gasoline [-39%] Oil [-72%]



Next, let us look at year to date performances of ETFs that holds stocks of companies in commodities business - Solar Energy [81%] Clean Energy [59%] Clean Energy [59%] Gold Mining [32%] Materials [-1%] Ag-business [-4%] Nuclear Energy [-10%] Steel [-19%] Coal [-23%] Energy [-50%] Oil Services [-62%] .



There are also leveraged commodity ETFs that go up double or thrice the daily percent change in any commodity.



Also, inverse commodity ETFs that go up when the commodity that they are tracking goes down.

