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Proven risk management solutions across the global commodities market
StoneX’s commodities brokers partner with your business to help you meet your goals, manage risk and enhance profitability.
Explore our commodities markets
From producers and consumers to investors and speculators, we connect our customers to the global physical and financial commodity marketplace. Explore our markets.
Agriculture markets
StoneX connects clients to virtually every major agricultural market in the world. We know firsthand how much commodity price volatility can be difficult to manage. Find out more about how our “boots on the ground” and customer-centric approach can help you protect your margins and grow your business.
Materials
The worldwide materials markets have never been more competitive, volatile or complex. Our expert traders pair deep understanding of global market dynamics with local intelligence to help our clients protect margins, manage volatility and increase profits.
Energy and environmental markets
Energy markets are subject to worldwide risks that are difficult to predict and can have adverse effects on a company’s bottom line. For more than 30 years, Stonex has focused its attention on helping organizations develop justifiable hedge plans to better control their energy costs.
Explore our products and services
We offer our customers a comprehensive array of products and services that range the whole gamut of what a customer would want from a commodity risk management partner. They can pick and choose which services they’re interested in, and we tailor our customer experience based on their unique needs.
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Risk management
A wide range of global issues can impact a bottom line, and it is our job to help you navigate a multitude of risks and provide you with the solutions, tools and platforms necessary to meet budgets, stabilize input prices and secure margins.
Market Intelligence
Any broker can handle the hedge, but our Market Intelligence department’s close, communicative relationship with our brokers allows us to perform our analysis based on the best boots-on-the-ground information available.
Clearing and execution
Our suite of institutional-grade futures clearing & execution services delivers broad exchange access and transparency to clients worldwide.
Facilities management
With more than 80 offices worldwide, we connect brokers from across the globe to both major and niche markets while providing secure delivery services, comprehensive management services, and advanced execution and clearing technology.
Pricing
Our commodity pricing expertise enables us to assist our clients in agriculture, metals, energy and more by taking the uncertainty and work out of pricing your commodities. We offer unique OTC and options strategies tailored to your business needs.
Financing
We can provide structured commodity financing to clients that is incremental to their established banking relationships, but unlike a bank, we move fast with the processing of your deal by providing working capital without delay.
Insurance
Federal USDA insurance programs help dairy farmers and livestock operations protect their revenues and margins from adverse changes in prices on a quarterly basis. Customize our insurance products to suit your coverage precisely to your operation’s needs.
Physical trading
We offer a complete range of physical trading services in agriculture, energy, metals and minerals. Clients can access these markets through high-touch trading and advisory services and our advanced, convenient electronic trading platform.
Managed futures
Through a full-service approach, our veteran consultants educate and assist both top traders and emerging managers in building a portfolio that will be a valuable risk management tool for true investment diversification.
Customized hedging and capital solutions for our clients
StoneX offers commodity risk management and capital solutions that help companies thrive in today’s difficult commodity environment. Our clients include but are not limited to:
- Commodity processors
- Energy companies
- Farmers
- Food and beverage manufacturers
- Livestock integrators
- Merchant traders
Know-Risk™ Commodity Management Software
Information plays a crucial role in today’s marketplace, but managing that information can often be a challenge. If you are still using a spreadsheet to manage your business’s information, you may not be getting all the value out of the data you collect. The key is having the right information at the right time in order to drive decision-making.
Know-Risk is designed to help you manage and interact with information so that you can develop risk management strategies and tactics. This interactive information manager aggregates information from several different sources and presents it in an easily understood format, designed to enable users to make informed decisions about their risk management strategies and tactics.
Take control of your operation with Farm Advantage
StoneX’s free smartphone app allows crop, livestock and dairy producers to market what they produce, manage their risk, maximize margins and grow their business – all from the palm of their hand.
Farm Advantage gives users access to market quotes, cash bids, account positions and balances, premium weather, boots-on-the-ground market intelligence and insurance decision tools easily and intuitively from wherever they are.
Protecting customer profitability with Merchants Plus
Merchants Plus is a pricing program that allows crop and livestock producers to share in the performance of professional marketing strategies. Depending on the strategy selected, a hedging plan will be run on behalf of all participants, and the gains or losses will result in an effective ‘Merchants Plus Price’ which is used to settle your cash contracts. Merchants Plus pricing can be offered to elevators as a swap which allows the elevator to use the Merchants Plus price in their contracts with growers.
StoneX: Boots on the ground (BOTG)
What sets StoneX apart? Discover how we draw on deep market knowledge and personal connections to deliver an unrivaled advantage to our clients.
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FAQ
How do I invest in commodities?
There are several ways to invest in commodities such as buying a commodity in its physical form or trading commodity futures and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The most popular commodity investment strategy is buying ETFs since it is a low-cost way to help investors gain exposure to the asset class while managing risk.
What are commodity futures?
Commodity futures are contractual agreements to buy or sell a predetermined amount of a commodity at a specified price and date in the future. They are used as hedging and speculating tools.
What is a commodity?
A commodity usually refers to a raw material, which can be soft or hard, used to manufacture finished goods. It is a tangible good that can be bought and sold or exchanged for products of the same type.
StoneX: We open markets
Our market expertise, advanced platforms, global reach, culture of full transparency and commitment to our clients’ success all set us apart in the financial marketplace.
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GlobalityWith access to 40+ derivatives exchanges, 180+ foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and numerous bi-lateral liquidity venues, StoneX’s digital network and deep relationships can take clients anywhere they want to go.
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TransparencyAs a publicly traded company meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance in the markets we serve; our financials and record of accomplishment are matters of public record. StoneX’s commitment to “doing the right thing over the easy thing” sets us apart in the industry and helps us build respect, client trust and new partnerships.
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ExpertiseFrom our proprietary Market Intelligence platform, to “boots on the ground” expertise from award-winning traders and professionals, we connect our clients directly to actionable insights they can use to make more informed decisions and achieve their goals in the global markets.
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Through the FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc., a clearing member of the Commodity Exchange (COMEX) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the Metals Team provides comprehensive futures and options on these exchanges. OTC swaps are also available on these products through StoneX Markets LLC. Through our membership on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), our clients can access its full product slate including the plastics, NGL, and olefins contracts.
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The trading of commodities and derivatives such as futures, options, and swaps involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. Advisory services as well as the trading of futures and options is available through various subsidiaries of StoneX Group Inc. including but not limited to the FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc. Public Disclosures for the FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc. The trading of over-the-counter products or swaps is available through subsidiary StoneX Markets LLC to individuals or firms who qualify under CFTC rules as an eligible contract participant. Please click here for the full disclaimer.
StoneX Financial Pte. Ltd. ("SFP") (Co. Reg. No 201130598R) is regulated by Monetary Authority of Singapore and holds a Capital Markets Services Licence (CMS100476) for Dealing in Securities, Collective Investment Schemes, Exchange-Traded Derivatives Contracts, Over-the-Counter Derivatives Contracts, and Spot Foreign Exchange Contracts for the Purposes of Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading, is an Exempt Financial Advisor under the Financial Advisors Act 2001, and is a Major Payments Institution (PS20200625) under the Payment Services Act 2019 for Cross Border Money Transfers.
StoneX Financial (HK) Limited ("SHK") (CE No.: BCQ152) is regulated by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for Dealing in Securities and Dealing in Futures Contracts.
StoneX APAC Pte. Ltd. (“SAP”) (Co. Reg. No 200616676W) is regulated as a Dealer (PS20190001002) under the Precious Stones and Precious Metals (Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing) Act 2019 for purposes of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. SAP is an “Approved International Trading Company” authorized to act as a “Spot Commodity Broker” under the Commodity Trading Act.
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