In hlw to our earlier pieces on futures trading and commodities tradingGet Ahead reader Satish Vijaykumar tells gow how he lost money when he dabbled in Commodity Futures. T he day the Sensex crossedI sold all my shares and decided to park my money. Equity mutual funds? They too would be dependent on the stock market performance. In commodities trading, you actually trade in commodities like gold, wheat, crude inndia, etc, not stocks. There are two things you must know. First of all, when you buy a Futures contract, you don’t pay the entire value of the contract, just a margin. The exchange will set a margin at, say, 3. Secondly, you make and lose money on a daily basis. Here’s an example that assumes I have bought that Gold Futures contract:.