Commodity foreign exchange trading is a surprising idea for many noobs. So why introduce them into a foreign exchange trading system?
The reason is that commodity prices can affect currency prices. Though we are not trading in the price of raw materials at once, in a few cases the cost of a currency pair might be kind of linked directly to the cost of a specfic commodity.
This is because the economies of many nations are based around a selected import or export. Where a country is exporting manufactured goods, this is not relevant. But where they’re exporting or importing raw materials, sometimes called commodities, changes in the price of those items will have a big effect on the country’s's business situation. Clearly many of the nations that are dependent on one of those commodities, are little or developing states whose currency would not form part of a major pair. These currencies are not likely to be useful to most forex traders.