Commodities are the goods that are generally considered as inputs in the production of other products, goods and services. These commodity prices are influenced by supply and demand trends in the global markets. These supply and demand factors further depend on the factors such as weather conditions, geographical restrictions, socio-political developments, emergency and natural calamities.

Some of these few commodities are oil, natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, sugar, coffee, and soya bean.

In India commodity markets have been in existence from ages. The recent government's initiative to allow multi-commodity stock exchanges has opened many vistas of varied investments in the vast commodity market. These exchanges have adopted diversified services, robust online trading options, easy-to-use settlement processes, and effective security and surveillance measures.