Bloomberg Commodity Prices and Bloomberg Commodity Futures Prices - Barchart.com (2024)

TheAll Futurespage lists all open contracts for the commodity you've selected. Intraday futures prices are delayed 10 minutes, per exchange rules, and are listed in CST. Overnight (Globex) prices are shown on the page through to 7pm CT, after which time it will list only trading activity for the next day. Once the markets have closed, the Last Price will show an 's' after the price, indicating the price has settled for the day. Thepage will always show prices from the latest session of the market.

End-of-Dayprices are updated at 8pm CST each evening, and includes theprevious sessionvolume and open interest information.

TheCash Contractis listed as the first contract at the top of the page.

Data Updates

For pages showing Intraday views, we use the current session's data with new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash". Stocks: 15 minute delay (Cboe BZX data for U.S. equities is real-time), ET. Volume reflects consolidated markets. Futures and Forex: 10 or 15 minute delay, CT.

The list of symbols included on the page is updated every 10 minutes throughout the trading day. However, new stocks are not automatically added to or re-ranked on the page until the site performs its 10-minute update.

For reference, we include the date and timestamp of when the list was last updated at the top right of the page.

Page Sort

Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.

Views

Most data tables can be analyzed using "Views." A View simply presents the symbols on the page with a different set of columns. Site members can also display the page using Custom Views.

Each View has a "Links" column on the far right to access a symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Options Quotes (when available), Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. Standard Views found throughout the site include:

  • Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, Percent Change, High, Low, Volume, and Time of Last Trade.
  • Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 20-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Historic Volatility, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High and 52-Week Low.
  • Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, YTD Percent Change, 1-Month, 3-Month and 1-Year Percent Change.
  • Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income, Beta, Annual Dividend, and Dividend Yield.
    Note
    : For all markets except U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page.
  • Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
  • Pre-Post Market Data: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.
View Symbol More Data (+)

Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.

Horizontal Scroll on Wide Tables

Especially when using a custom view, you may find that the number of columns chosen exceeds the available space to show all the data. In this case, the table must be horizontally scrolled (left to right) to view all of the information. To do this, you can either scroll to the bottom of the table and use the table's scrollbar, or you can scroll the table using your browser's built-in scroll:

  • Left-click with your mouse anywhere on the table.
  • Use your keyboard's left and right arrows to scroll the table.
  • Repeat this anywhere as you move through the table to enable horizontal scrolling.
Flipcharts

Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. While viewing Flipcharts, you can apply a custom chart template, further customizing the way you can analyze the symbols. Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members.

Note: Flipcharts, unlike the full-page chart or Dashboard, does not stream updated data to the chart.

Download

Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 1000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.

Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.

Note: Due to licensing restrictions, Canadian fundamental data cannot be downloaded from Barchart.com. You will see "N/L" in a downloaded column when this is the case.

Should you require more than 250 downloads per day, please contact Barchart Sales at 866-333-7587 or email solutions@barchart.com for more information or additional options about historical market data.

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FAQs

Where can I check commodity charts? ›

Commodities Prices - Barchart.com. The Data You Need. Delivered. Barchart is a leading provider of market data and services to the global financial, media, and commodity industries.

Where can I download commodity prices? ›

Commodity Price History and Forecast Database

One of the sources is the world bank data base that records and updates commodity prices called for some reason pink data. On this World Bank web site you can download monthly nominal prices since 1960 for more than 100 commodity price series.

What are the futures of commodities? ›

Commodity futures are derivative contracts in which the purchaser agrees to buy or sell a specific quantity of a physical commodity at a specified price on a particular date in the future. Derivatives are investments that derive their value from the price of another asset, typically called the underlying asset.

What are examples of commodities? ›

What are Commodities? Commodities are raw materials used to create the products consumers buy, from food to furniture to gasoline or petrol. Commodities include agricultural products such as wheat and cattle, energy products such as oil and natural gas, and metals such as gold, silver and aluminum.

How to monitor commodity prices? ›

Bar charts and candlestick charts show more information, such as the opening, high, low, and closing prices of commodities, as well as the direction and magnitude of price changes. Point and figure charts are useful for identifying support and resistance levels, but they ignore time and volume.

What is the best app to track ag commodity prices? ›

Markets
  • Sunrise 360 for Apple and Android.
  • Growers Edge for Apple and Android.
  • Cattle Market Mobile for Apple and Android.
  • cmdtyView by barchart for Apple and Android.
  • Farm Logs by Bushel Farms for Apple and Android.
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What index tracks commodity prices? ›

The major commodity indexes are the S&P GSCI Index, the Bloomberg Commodity Index, and the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index. These are just three of the many commodity indexes available to investors.

What is the commodities function in Bloomberg? ›

The Commodity function is F9 on the Bloomberg keyboard.

Who controls commodity prices? ›

Supply and demand play a big role in the way commodities are priced in the market. When supply is low, demand is high, which leads to higher prices. Prices drop when the situation reverses—when supply is high and demand is low.

What is the difference between futures and commodities? ›

Guide to Futures and Commodities Trading

No, though they are related. Futures are a type of financial derivative in which you agree to buy or sell a certain asset at a certain price at a particular time in the future. Commodities are a type of asset representing fungible goods, such as oil, iron ore, or wheat.

What is the most actively traded commodity in the world? ›

Brent Crude Oil

Accordingly, Brent Crude is considered the most used benchmark worldwide.

What is the largest commodity futures market? ›

The top five futures include crude oil, corn, natural gas, soybeans, and gold.

What is the largest futures market in the US? ›

A futures contract is a legally binding agreement to buy or sell a standardized asset on a specific date or during a specific month. Typically, futures contracts are traded electronically on exchanges such as the CME Group, the largest futures exchange in the United States.

What are the top 5 commodities? ›

The 10 largest sources of cash receipts from the sale of U.S.-produced farm commodities in calendar year 2022 are (in descending order): corn, cattle/calves, soybeans, dairy products/milk, broilers, hogs, miscellaneous crops, chicken eggs, wheat, and hay.

What are today's commodity prices? ›

Commodity Prices
EnergyPrice+/-
Coal105.50-1.50
RBOB Gasoline2.50-0.01
Uranium91.250.00
Oil (Brent)83.29-0.16
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Where can I do commodities trading? ›

In India, there are commodity exchanges including The National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX), The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) and The Indian Commodity Exchange Limited (ICEX).

Do commodities have ticker symbols? ›

An investor looking to purchase a commodity ETF only needs a brokerage to purchase the security. In much the same way as the investor would purchase a share of Apple, they only need to find the ticker symbol for the commodity ETF, place a purchase order, and receive the security once the purchase is complete.

Does TD Ameritrade have commodities? ›

Qualified TD Ameritrade accounts can access over 70 different futures products across three exchanges, spanning several asset classes including equity indices, interest rates, currencies, metals, energy and agricultural commodities.

How do you check a trading graph? ›

There is a horizontal bar on each side (feet of the bar) that denotes the opening and closing price of the stock in the interval. The foot on the left side is the opening price, and the one on the right side is the closing price. Here is what a bar looks like: Reading a bar chart is similar to a candlestick chart too.

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