6 Weird Futures You Can Trade Chances are that if something has
any real effect on the bottom line of business, that something
can be traded. It's true in the case of corn, soybeans, sugar
and oil. But did you know you can also trade freight containers,
economic indicators, carbon dioxide and the weather forecast?
Soon you will even be able to bet on the weekend box office of
your local movie theater.  In Pictures: 10 Tips For The
Successful Long-Term Investor  All this and more exists in an
ever-evolving financial canvas that allows us to trade just
about anything that we can agree to terms on. Each of the
products featured here was created out of a need to hedge
against loss and/or preserve a profit, but most of these
products couldn't exist without speculators - folks like you and
me (albeit with much larger wallets) to take the other side of
their protective bets. (Learn the risks in Are Derivatives Safe
For Retail Investors?)  Freight Derivatives The London-based
Baltic Exchange offers trading on swaps f