Which Commodities Can You Short Sell?
In short: it depends which instrument you are using for shorting (eg, put option vs spreadbetting vs CFDs). For example, one popular CFD provider offers these commodities to short:-
- Aluminium
- Barley
- Brent Crude Oil
- Canola
- Carbon Emissions
- Coal
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Copper
- Corn
- Cotton
- Electricity
- Energy Commodities
- Environmental Commodities
- Ethanol
- Feeder Cattle
- Gold
- Heating Oil
- Lead
- Lean Hogs
- Live Cattle
- Precious Metals
- Molybdenum
- Natural Gas
- New Commodities
- Nickel
- Oil
- Orange Juice
- Palladium
- Palm Oil
- Platinum
- Pork Belly
- Propane
- Random Length Lumber
- RBOB Gasoline
- Renewable Energy Certificates
- Rough Rice
- Rubber
- Silver
- Soybean
- Steel
- Sugar
- Tin
- Wheat
- White Certificates
- Wool
- Zinc