Comments on: Does commodity trading and or commodity futures trading ever make you take delivery of a commodity itself? http://www.acommoditytradingworld.com/commodity-trading/does-commodity-trading-and-or-commodity-futures-trading-ever-make-you-take-delivery-of-a-commodity-itself The commodity trading blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:19:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: zman492 http://www.acommoditytradingworld.com/commodity-trading/does-commodity-trading-and-or-commodity-futures-trading-ever-make-you-take-delivery-of-a-commodity-itself/comment-page-1#comment-38 zman492 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:41:59 +0000 http://www.acommoditytradingworld.com/commodity-trading/does-commodity-trading-and-or-commodity-futures-trading-ever-make-you-take-delivery-of-a-commodity-itself#comment-38 If it is not a cash-settled future, and you keep your position until expiration, you will indeed have to take delivery of (or deliever) the actual comodity at expiration. However, you are never required to keep a position open until expiration. So, if you take a minimal amount of care and close your positions before expiration, you will never have to deal with the acutal underlying commodity. To learn more you might want to take the tutorials at http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,492,00.html<br><b>References : </b><br> If it is not a cash-settled future, and you keep your position until expiration, you will indeed have to take delivery of (or deliever) the actual comodity at expiration.

However, you are never required to keep a position open until expiration. So, if you take a minimal amount of care and close your positions before expiration, you will never have to deal with the acutal underlying commodity.

To learn more you might want to take the tutorials at

http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,492,00.html
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