Commodities Commodities include metals, oil, grain, animal merchandise, money devices, and currencies. They will either be traded through commodity futures—agreements to purchase or provide a specific amount of the commodity in a specified value on a certain future day—or ETFs. Commodities may be used for hedging possibility or speculative applications. https://share.evernote.com/note/efacd343-0304-aab2-73e8-b14b715dc214