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 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 is the futures market for 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 is the price bar chart? ›

A bar chart visually depicts the opening, high, low, and closing prices of an asset or security over a specified period of time. The vertical line on a price bar represents the high and low prices for the period. The left and right horizontal lines on each price bar represent the opening and closing prices.

What are commodity prices today? ›

Commodity Prices
EnergyPrice%
RBOB Gasoline2.71-1.84%
Uranium88.000.85%
Oil (Brent)87.87-0.73%
Oil (WTI)81.51-1.50%
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Where can I get commodities data? ›

The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) Economic, Statistics and Market Information System offers agricultural commodity market data and outlooks.

What is the best commodity platform? ›

Best Commodity Trading Apps 2024
  • tastytrade: Best for low-cost futures.
  • Interactive Brokers: Best for global trading.
  • Tradeworks: Best research strategy database.
  • NinjaTrader: Best for trading tools.
  • E*TRADE: Best for margin traders and IRAs.
  • Goldco: Best for buying gold.
  • Charles Schwab: Best for education and expert research.
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What is the commodity futures price? ›

Commodity futures prices can be calculated as follows: Add storage costs to the spot price of the commodity. Multiply the resulting value by Euler's number (2.718281828…) raised to the risk-free interest rate multiplied by the time to maturity.

How do you read commodity futures prices? ›

The most common type of commodity price chart is the bar chart, where daily prices for a particular contract month are plotted as a vertical bar. The top of the bar (or line) represents the high price for the day. The bottom is the day's low and a small horizontal tic on the right side is the closing price.

What are the most important commodity futures? ›

Commodities attract fundamentally-oriented players including industry hedgers who use technical analysis to predict price direction. The top five futures include crude oil, corn, natural gas, soybeans, and gold.

What is the best chart website for trading? ›

The best free stock charts are on TradingView. Other free charting websites include StockCharts.com, FINVIZ, Stock Rover and Yahoo Finance. Traders can also open an account at many U.S. brokers for free and chart stocks, even with a zero balance.

Do charts show bid or ask price? ›

Our MT5 charts display the bid price, i.e. the price at which you sell a market. To work out the ask price from the price on the chart you must add the spread (the difference between the bid and the ask price).

What is the most valuable commodity in the world today? ›

Crude oil is by far the biggest commodity market, and oil prices were the talk of the town for much of 2022.

What is happening with commodity prices? ›

Commodity prices have been relatively flat overall since the fall of 2023. However, prices of some key commodities such as oil and copper trended higher in 2024's opening months. Commodity demand may be strengthening as the global economy improves.

What is the real price of a commodity? ›

The market price of a commodity that is quoted in the media is often its market futures price. The futures price is different than the spot price or cash price, which is the actual price for the commodity today.

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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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 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.

How to read commodity prices? ›

In the case of a daily chart, the top of the line would be the day's high traded price, the bottom corresponds with the day's low price, and the tick on the right side of the line is the closing price. On some charts, there is also a tick on the left side of each vertical line denoting the opening price for the period.

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