CLASSIFICATION OF DIFFERENT COMMODITIES

A physical or virtual market place for buying and selling and trading raw or primary products, for
inventors purposes there are currently about 50 major commodity markets worldwide that facilities
investment trade in nearby 100 primary countries.

Commodities are split into two types – HARD and SOFT commodities.

Hard commodities are typically natural resources that must be mined or extracted for example - oil,
rubber, gold

Soft commodities are agricultural products or livestock for example – corn, wheat, coffee, sugar,
soybean, pork etc.