The phrase "actual commodities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to tangible goods or products that are available for sale or trade, as opposed to theoretical or abstract concepts.
Example: "In the market, we focus on actual commodities like wheat, corn, and soybeans rather than speculative investments."
Alternatives: "real goods" or "tangible products".
Money flows from the bank to the company, cash is paid back months later along with the equivalent of interest, and actual commodities rarely change hands.
"Not being a farmer or a miner myself, I favor the stocks," rather than owning the actual commodities, Mr. Schatsky said.
An E.T.F. that invests across commodity sectors does not buy actual commodities — that is, barrels of oil or buckets of wheat — but instead purchases derivative securities called futures.
The contract market in commodities is analogous to the stock market for public corporations, essentially this unseen hand playing a role in setting the price for actual commodities: corn, copper, oil, gasoline, wheat, and so on.
David Darst, the chief investment strategist of the global wealth management group at Morgan Stanley, said he thought the stocks of commodity producers might now be a better deal than buying the actual commodities.
Mr. Gavrylov, chief financial officer of a firm that trades actual commodities in Ukraine, said he had used MF Global for his personal commodity trading, in part, because he felt his money was safe there.
The final rule did close an earlier loophole that would have relaxed position limits for trades settled with cash payments rather than by exchanging the actual commodity.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed relaxing position limits for certain trades, those settled with cash payments rather than by exchanging the actual commodity.
The seller of a futures contract on a commodity exchange does not normally intend to deliver the actual commodity, nor does the buyer intend to accept delivery; each will, at some time prior to the date of delivery specified in the contract, cancel out his obligation by an offsetting purchase or sale.
According to an actual commodity price on the market, one can chose an optimal ratio between sugar and ethanol production.
The most sophisticated approach to estimate opportunity costs is to develop models of production and returns based on production inputs, yield and actual commodity prices in the respective regions [22].
