The regulatory authority has now made it mandatory for all commodity trade platforms to keep in place a comprehensive range of services and options from which an investor can choose from. The services offered by the prominent players in commodities trade include:
• Opening and management of the depository account
• Dematerialization of a trade in a particular commodity
• Rematerialization of trade in a commodity
• Settlement of dematerialized commodities
• Buying of dematerialized commodities: market trade
• Selling of dematerialized commodities: market trade
• Buying and selling of commodities: off-market trade
• Pledging and hypothecation of dematerialized commodities

The first step involved before entering into an online trade is to open an account with a prominent bank or a financing institution. Investors and experts sound a word of caution that it is not good to enter into commodities trade with borrowed money. Even then, a bank account is helpful to manage the money involved in buying and selling.

trading in commodities involves the assimilation of different nuances of the market across different continents. In the global market, no nation can ever stand aloof from the developments elsewhere. Even then, the domestic market has certain features that are not found elsewhere. Since commodity trade is between two different companies or between two different individuals, it is better to get in touch with the factors that help to get a better price for a particular product in a different market. For a beginner it is better not to deal with perishable commodities because it takes time to get in touch with the various factors that control trade.

Most ETF's can get your decent exposure to most commodities.