Soft commodity cotton, and orange juice. Soft commodities have been known to adopt a backwardation trend until the late 1990s when futures were actively traded. Speculation and investment requirements later shaped the common contango trend. Soft commodity Soft commodities, or softs, are commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, corn, wheat, soybean, fruit and livestock. The term generally refers to commodities that are grown, rather than mined; the latter (such as oil, copper and gold) are known as hard commodities. Soft commodities play a major part in the futures market. They are used by farmers wishing to lock-in the future prices of their
Derivative and Commodity Exchange Nepal Ltd. Derivative and Commodity Exchange Nepal Ltd. The Derivative and Commodity Exchange Nepal (DCX) is an Asian multi-product commodity and derivatives exchange situated in Nepal for commodity market in Nepal. Derivative trading in a diversified basket of commodities and derivatives (CFD) including futures and options contracts on precious metals, base metals, agriculture commodities, energy, currencies and commodity indices. In Nov 2011 the Derivative and Commodity Exchange Nepal Ltd. was granted Company recognition by Company Registrar Office, qualifying operating licence by the Company Registrar Office of Nepal to operate as a regulated and licensed exchange.Recently,The Commodities Act was passed by the Govt.of