Platforms for Trading Commodities

One of the most respected brokers in the world, Interactive Brokers gives direct access to futures on CME, NYMEX, CBOT, and ICE — covering oil, gold, silver, natural gas, agricultural commodities, and more. Industry-leading low commissions and a professional-grade platform.

• ✓Direct futures market access on all major exchanges
• ✓Options on futures for commodities, metals, and energy
• ✓Real-time margin and risk management tools
• ✓Available in 150+ countries

tastytrade is built specifically for derivatives traders. It offers futures on commodity markets (crude oil, gold, grains, softs) with some of the lowest per-contract commissions in the industry. The platform is intuitive and designed around options and futures workflows.

• ✓Flat $1.25/contract futures commissions, $0 to close
• ✓Futures on energy, metals, grains, and livestock
• ✓Micro futures available (smaller contract sizes)
• ✓Free desktop, web, and mobile platforms

TradeStation is a powerful platform favored by systematic and algorithmic traders. It provides deep access to commodity futures, robust backtesting tools, and the EasyLanguage scripting environment for building and automating strategies.

• ✓Futures on energy, metals, agricultural, and financial
• ✓EasyLanguage strategy automation and backtesting
• ✓Institutional-grade charting and market analysis
• ✓Simulator mode for practice trading

NinjaTrader is one of the most popular dedicated futures trading platforms. The platform itself is free — you pay only commissions when you trade. It's widely used for day trading crude oil, gold, natural gas, grains, and index futures.

• ✓Free platform (commissions apply per trade)
• ✓Advanced order flow and volume analysis tools
• ✓Strategy Builder for automated trading
• ✓Micro futures with small account minimums

IG is the oldest and largest CFD broker globally, founded in 1974. It offers CFDs on oil, gold, silver, natural gas, agricultural commodities, and commodity ETFs. Trusted by professionals worldwide, with access to 17,000+ markets from a single account.

• ✓CFDs on 45+ commodity markets including soft commodities
• ✓Direct market access (DMA) options available
• ✓Guaranteed stop-losses to cap risk
• ✓Available in Europe, UK, Asia, Australia, US

Saxo Bank offers both commodity CFDs and direct futures trading from a single professional-grade account. With 40,000+ instruments across 50+ exchanges, it's the preferred choice for serious multi-asset traders who want commodity exposure alongside equities and bonds.

• ✓Commodity CFDs and direct futures on major exchanges
• ✓40,000+ instruments across all asset classes
• ✓SaxoTraderGO — professional desktop and mobile platform
• ✓Competitive spreads on oil, gold, silver, copper

eToro makes commodity trading accessible to beginners with a simple interface and its unique CopyTrader feature — allowing you to automatically mirror the trades of experienced commodity investors. Offers CFDs on oil, gold, silver, natural gas, and agricultural commodities.

• ✓CopyTrader: replicate top commodity investors automatically
• ✓CFDs on oil, gold, silver, copper, natural gas, and more
• ✓Social feed with market commentary from millions of users
• ✓Low $50 minimum deposit

Plus500 is a publicly listed CFD provider known for its clean, no-frills platform. It covers all major commodity markets — crude oil, Brent, gold, silver, natural gas, copper, wheat, sugar, and more — with competitive spreads and a straightforward mobile app.

• ✓CFDs on 100+ commodity instruments
• ✓No commissions — revenue from spreads only
• ✓Unlimited free demo account
• ✓Publicly listed on London Stock Exchange

CMC Markets offers one of the widest commodity selections of any CFD broker — over 330 instruments spanning energy, metals, agriculture, and indices. Its Next Generation platform is consistently rated among the best for charting and analysis.

• ✓330+ commodity CFDs — the widest range in the industry
• ✓Advanced charting with 115+ technical indicators
• ✓Pattern recognition scanner for commodity charts
• ✓Spread betting available for UK/Ireland traders

Charles Schwab is one of the largest and most trusted US brokers, offering $0-commission ETF trading with access to hundreds of commodity ETFs (gold, oil, energy, agriculture). It also provides futures trading through the professional thinkorswim platform inherited from TD Ameritrade.

• ✓$0 commissions on commodity ETFs (GLD, SLV, USO, DJP, etc.)
• ✓Futures trading via thinkorswim platform
• ✓Schwab Commodity Index — diversified exposure
• ✓Excellent research, screeners, and educational content

Fidelity is a US investor favourite for long-term commodity exposure via ETFs. It offers zero-commission trades on thousands of ETFs, a wide selection of commodity funds (precious metals, energy, broad commodity indices), and exceptional research tools.

• ✓$0 commissions on all ETF trades
• ✓Commodity ETFs across metals, energy, and agriculture
• ✓Fidelity ZERO funds — no expense ratio index funds
• ✓Best-in-class stock and fund research platform

E*TRADE, now part of Morgan Stanley, combines an easy-to-use interface with comprehensive commodity trading tools. It supports both commodity futures and a wide range of commodity ETFs, making it a flexible choice for traders at any level.

• ✓$0 commissions on ETFs and stocks
• ✓Futures trading on energy, metals, and agricultural markets
• ✓Power E*TRADE — advanced options and futures platform
• ✓Extensive educational library for commodity trading

Coinbase is the largest and most regulated crypto exchange in the US, publicly listed on Nasdaq. It offers straightforward access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 250+ cryptocurrencies — the digital commodity assets tracked on CommodityWatch — with institutional-grade custody.

• ✓250+ cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP
• ✓Insured custody and cold storage for assets
• ✓Coinbase Advanced for professional charting and trading
• ✓Publicly listed (NASDAQ: COIN) — highest trust level

Kraken has been operating since 2011 and has never been hacked — making it one of the most trusted crypto exchanges globally. It offers spot trading, crypto futures, and margin trading on all major digital assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more.

• ✓Spot and futures trading on 200+ cryptocurrencies
• ✓Crypto futures with up to 50x leverage
• ✓Proof of reserves — audited for solvency
• ✓Available in 190+ countries