What are some of the most common mistakes that investors make when investing in commodities?

Investors in commodities often make common mistakes that can harm their returns. These include neglecting thorough research, attempting to time the market, overlooking diversification, ignoring risk management, neglecting storage and transport costs, making emotionally driven decisions, underestimating leverage and margin risks, neglecting macro factors, lacking patience, and not seeking professional advice. By avoiding these mistakes and adopting a disciplined and informed approach, investors can improve their chances of success in commodity investing.

How to trade Australian shares using CFDs?

Traders interested in short-term gains have various derivatives available to them for stock market trading. CFDs, for example, offer clients to speculate on the prices of securities without owning the underlying asset. A CFD is a contract between a broker and a trader to exchange the difference in value of an underlying asset between the beginning and the end of the contract. 

A CFD is a leveraged financial product. This means that CFDs traders use margin accounts and need to put down only a fraction of the total capital required to open a leveraged position. The rest of the capital is lent to traders by their brokerage company.