Historically, commodities trading have delivered the biggest fortunes worldwide. It originated centuries ago, even before the stock markets came into existence but has only recently been introduced in India on a large scale through the Exchanges. Unlike the stock markets where even a highly valued stock could eventually loose all it’s commercial value due to several reasons, commodities will only increase in value with time as the imbalance in the demand & supply ratio would always favor demand more than supply due to many factors like growing populations, rising economy & better lifestyles to name a few. All adverse scenarios which pull the stock markets down generally push the commodities markets up like geo-political tensions, wars, climatic imbalances & disasters, etc. basically due to the differentiating factor that these commodities generally are regular necessities to normal life & not simply investment instruments.