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Over the last few years, the use of commodity derivatives market particularly futures market in India has increased exponentially. In emerging countries like India, the demands for commodities are more compared to other nations. Particularly, three commodities; gold, crude Oil and guar seed are the top ten most trading commodities in India. Now Multi Commodity Exchange in India is the second largest metals trading exchange in the World. With this boom in trading of these three commodities in futures market, there is huge gap in the study of such markets in India. Therefore, this book technically analyzes the commodity futures market in India using the modern econometrics and time series techniques. This wonderfully analyzed the commodity futures market in India, whether commodity futures markets are efficient or not, and how exchanges are fixing the price of commodities. This book more useful to government policy makers, private sector, trading exchanges, traders, investors, researchers and others who are using futures market for various purposes.

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I Mr. Pratap Kumar Jena, did M.A. and M.Phil at University of Hyderabad. Currently doing Ph.D. at the same University. My specialization is both Commodity and Financial Derivatives Market, Time Series Analysis, and Model Building & Simulation. I have three years research experience. Paper presented in different national and internal conferences.

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