As an investor it may behoove you to study some of the commodity historical charts available today. In doing this, you may be able to correlate rises and falls in commodity prices based on other economic conditions. If you start to see these economic conditions repeating themselves, then you may be in line to make a healthy sum of money. Just be sure you are able to handle losing a healthy sum
. of money as well. For a look as some commodity historical charts, go here: http://www.chartsrus.com/