Commodity Market

India has a deep ingrained knowledge in commodity trading (and particularly forward trading in commodities), especially in the interior heartland. For last 40 years or so, such forward (futures) trading was banned in the country for a variety of reasons and it is being revived now. The ban has meant that two generations have lost touch with the trading skills and the related knowledge levels in the commodity space. Fortunately much of the skill sets have migrated to stock exchanges.

In these intervening years, some regional exchanges specializing in specific commodities, where the bans were lifted, have carried on the baton. Also large informal trading, primarily by the speculative segment of the universe of market participants has remained. This has led to a mindset in the common man in the country that commodity exchanges are purely speculative in nature. The hedging and price discovery functions that they perform are largely ignored today by the cross section of the population.

Our endeavor is to reach to the producers, end-users, and even the retail investors, at a grassroots level. Education and awareness has a key role to play in achieving this vision.