Commodities trading via CFDs

The table below outlines the contract size for each commodity trade, along with key contract specifications such as tick size, tick value, and contract equivalency.

FOREX.com offers two types of CFDs: Futures CFDs, which are dated for a specific contract month and expire automatically at the end of their contract period, and Cash CFDs, which do not expire. Visit  How are Non-Expiring Commodities (NEC) priced? for more information on Cash Commodity CFDs. Note that only Futures CFDs are available on the MetaTrader 4 platform. Standard expiry definitions are available in the table below. To see the exact Last Dealing Time for each market, check the Market 360 tab on the for each market on the FOREX.com Web Trading platform, or the under the Company tab in the Terminal window of MetaTrader 4.

 If you don't close a Futures CFD position before the Last Dealing Time, it will be closed automatically once the applicable closing price has been determined, and any open orders will be cancelled. The closing price will be determined by reference to the underlying futures market and may be the official settlement price, the last traded price, or another value reported by the relevant exchange on the day of expiry, as applicable. Alternatively, you can tick Autoroll, which will roll your Futures position to the next contract month prior to expiry. Please note that Autoroll closes the expiring contract and realizes any profit or loss before opening a new position in the next contract month. For MetaTrader 4 accounts, to keep your exposure, you must manually open a new position in the next contract month after expiry, as MetaTrader does not support the Autoroll function.

The formula to calculate how much margin is required is quantity x price x margin.