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The major reason why you should invest in a Wheat ETF is, wheat is one of the most popular cereal commodity grown into the Global. It is only comparable to rice and maize in its quantity and more than 6000000 tons are harvested every year .

The only wheat only ETF that I know is Teucrium Wheat Fund. This ETF is the only one that tracks the price of wheat. The other option of investing in a Wheat ETF is buying ETFs that have wheat plus other commodities in their basket. These include some of the big names in agricultural commodities etfs:-

• ADZ – PowerShares DB Agriculture Short ETN
• AGA – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Short ETN
• AGF – PowerShares DB Agriculture Long ETN
• BARN – Global X Farming ETF
• CRBA – Jefferies TR/J CRB Global Agriculture Equity Index ETF
• DAD – PowerShares DB Agirculture Double Short ETF
• DAG – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Long

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If you are looking into investing in an agricultural commodity ETF  you can select form the following list of agricultural etfs related to agriculture. These agricultural ETFs tend to reflect the performance of the agricultural sector. Some of the ETFs are long while others are short.

ADZ – PowerShares DB Agriculture Short ETN

AGA – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Short ETN

AGF – PowerShares DB Agriculture Long ETN

BARN – Global X Farming ETF

COWL – Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bull 3x Shares ETF

COWS – Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bear 3x Shares ETF

CRBA – Jefferies TR/J CRB Global Agriculture Equity Index ETF

DAD – PowerShares DB Agirculture Double Short ETF

DAG – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Long ETN

DBA – PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF

DIRT – iPath Pure Beta Agriculture ETN

MOO – Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF

BAL – iPath Dow Jones AIG Cotton TR Sub-Index ETN

CTNN – iPath Pure Beta Cotton ETN

CAFÉ – iPath Pure Beta Coffee ETN

JO – iPath DJ-UBS Coffee Total Return Sub-Index ETN

NIB – iPath DJ-UBS Cocoa Total Return Sub-Index ETN

CHOC – iPath Pure Beta Cocoa ETN

GRU – ELEMENTS MLCX Grains Index Total Return ETN

JJG – iPath DJ-UBS Grains Total Return Sub-Index ETN

WEET – iPath Pure Beta Grains ETN

WEAT – Teucrium Wheat Fund

The initials on the left are symbols of agricultural ETF / ETN

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One ETF that is designed to take a short position on the US dollar is the PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Bearish Fund.

PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Bearish Fund is issued and managed by Deutsche Bank and Amvescap unit PowerShares Capital Management LLC.

PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Bearish Fund tracks Deutsche Bank U.S. Dollar Index Futures Index — Excess Return, which follows the movement of the U.S. dollar against a basket of six major currencies: the euro, the Japanese yen, the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Swedish krona and the Swiss franc.

PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Bearish Fund makes profit when the U.S. dollar falls.

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Its never easy for a small investor to invest in Gold. There are practical problems with owning gold. It’s heavy, and not easy for the average investor to buy, sell, ship, and store. Gold involves a lot of transactional costs.

Invest in Gold ETF

One easier way for retail investors or small investor can get exposure to gold is through exchange-traded funds. The exchange traded fund is a trading platform where investors can invest in funds that track a particular investment eg. gold, oil, emerging markets etc. Instead of directly buying a commodity, you buy piece of the fund which in turns invests directly into the commodity.

For example, the SPDR Gold Trust holds actual gold bullion. The PowerShares DB Gold Fund holds futures contracts linked to the price of gold, and the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF holds stock in gold mining companies.

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