Question: does anyone trade materials within the commodity markets in the USA on LF?
I'm pretty sure Fred Mertz hits the pawn shops on his way to the horsetrack.
Would that count?
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
I was a trader in the gold exchange several years back. At that time, I used http://money.net which was free and this http://www.kitco.com/ But I also had an Ameritrade account so that I could do live streaming quotes. Try getting a http://Yahoo.com account set up and start looking in the "Finance" section for gold stocks.
Like this one https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/nem?ltr=1.
Start communicating with like minded-buyers on that forum who will provide you with ticker symbols for other penny stocks or low cost stocks.
Gold is a great investment whether you are in the stock purchases or bullion purchases directly from them like http://kitco.com
I have some aluminum cans. Some left over aluminum screen. Some left over aluminum gutter guards and some copper. I'm going to trade opit for some money.
As for paper gold, I would suggest Canadian Maple leafs of 1 troy ounces and Krugerrands. Put at least about 50% of your investment in these. I will suggest you give these people www.investmentrarities.com/ a call to inquire what the purchase limit or quota they require. They will mail your bullion coins by registered mail.
The purpose of having an Ameritrade account is to do online trading and buying of stocks. To do this requires a money market account with a certain balance amount required. I believe Ameridtrade's minimum balance requirement would be $1500.00. That may have changed to attract new clients. More here on that https://www.scottrade.com/
Furthermore, you need to be early in the morning (depending on what time zone you are in) as the New York Stock exchange opens at 6 am ET. Find a live streaming quotes website like http://money.net and starting watching your stocks.
Also, I suggest you get yourself a book called Barrons Financial Guide Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms 7th Ed. to get yourself acquainted and educated with the terminology used.