Commodities Trading
IC Markets offers a flexible and easy way to gain exposure to some of the world’s most popular commodities including energies and metals all from within your MetaTrader 4 & cTrader trading platform.
Commodity markets are attractive to speculators as they are susceptible to dramatic changes in supply and demand.
Spot Energy Contracts
IC Markets allows trading of Spot energy contracts including Crude oil, Brent & Natural Gas from your MetaTrader 4 platforms against the US Dollar.
Trading Energy contracts as a spot instrument has many advantages for investors who are only interested in price speculation. The Spot price is derived as a combination of the first and second nearby month future contract. This pricing method diminishes the level of volatility
Currency Code | Currency Pair | Spreads (Min) | Spreads (AVG) |
|---|---|---|---|
| XTIUSD | Crude Oil in Dollar | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| XBRUSD | Brent in Dollar | 4.0 | 4.85 |
| XNGUSD | Natural Gas in Dollar | 4.0 | 4.0 |
Metals – Gold, Silver, Platinum & Palladium
IC Markets allows trading the spot price for Metals including Gold or Silver against the US Dollar or Euro and the metals Platinum or Palladium against the US Dollar as a currency pair on 500:1 leverage.
Currency Code | Currency Pair | Spreads (Min) | Spreads (AVG) |
|---|---|---|---|
| XAU/USD | Gold in Dollar | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| XAU/EUR | Gold in Euro | 4.5 | 11.3 |
| XAG/USD | Silver in Dollar | 0.3 | 1.0 |
| XAG/EUR | Silver in Euro | 1.0 | 3.5 |
| XPT/USD | Platinum in Dollar | 11.1 | 14.6 |
| XPD/USD | Palladium in Dollar | 15.0 | 19.0 |
Soft Commodities – Wheat, Corn, Soybean, Coffee, Sugar
In addition to Energy & Metal contracts, at IC Markets we offer a range of soft commodity products to trade, including corn, soybeans, sugar, coffee and wheat as CFDs – all with low spreads and leverage up to 100:1.
Soft Commodities | Spreads(Min) |
|---|---|
| Sugar | 0.06 |
| Coffee | 0.9 |
| Corn | 1.0 |
| Wheat | 1.0 |
| Soybean | 1.5 |
Contract Specification Sheet
IC Markets Contract Specification Sheet provides further information regarding the Commodities on offer.
