Commodity Fundamentals: How to Trade the Precious Metals, Energy, Grain, and Tropical Commodity Markets

Acknowledgments

I extend my appreciation to the public information professionals of the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, who took time out from their very busy schedules to graciously provide me with the technical information and contract history and specification clearances so necessary for the production of this book. I also thank Laura Walsh of John Wiley & Sons who shepherded the production process from start to finish and never lost her cool. I also gratefully acknowledge the statistical information presented here on platinum, palladium, and the other precious metals that was provided by Johnson Matthey. Lastly, I would like to give a special of word of thanks to my wife, Marie Colwell, my sun and stars and reason for being.

—RONALD C. SPURGA