23Nov 2016

A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF COMMODITY FUTURES IN INDIA.

  • Assistant Professor in Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru.
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India is among the top producers of a number of commodities and has a long history of trading in commodity derivatives. Futures, as a derivative tool of risk management have existed in India. Major industries of its economy like sugar, textile, metal, energy etc. are based on various commodities. Today, India enjoys world ranking with respect to trading volume in certain commodities like Silver, Gold, Copper, Guar Seed etc. So, far the financial returns are concerned commodity futures markets allow commercial producers and commercial consumers to offset the risk of adverse future price movements in the commodities that they are selling or buying besides the price discovery tool. So considering these points, an attempt has been made to study the performance of commodity futures trading in India.


[Ruchi Vohra. (2016); A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF COMMODITY FUTURES IN INDIA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Nov). 315-321] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/2086      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/2086