Commodity investing

• Jun 30, 2026
• commodities-investing

Commodities Book Series Closing Thoughts: Key Takeaways From 28 Chapters

Book: Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies
Editors: H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Jeffrey H. Harris
ISBN: 9780190656010

That wraps the series. Twenty-eight chapters, dozens of authors, one massive Oxford University Press volume from 2018. We started with commodity market basics and ended with Holzhauer’s look at where trading is headed. In between: performance data, strategy frameworks, food policy, HFT, energy risk, financialization fights, Bitcoin, open research questions, and bank exits from physical commodities.

• May 30, 2026
• commodities-investing

Commodities Book Series: Why This Oxford Reference Matters for Investors

I’m starting a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies, edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Jeffrey H. Harris (Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780190656010). This is not a textbook summary. It’s my honest take on what each chapter says and whether it actually helps someone trying to understand commodity markets.