Commodities

Commodity futures and spot

Not shown in the app

Continuous futures for energy, metals, grains, softs and livestock, with roll dates, and a few FRED spot prices.

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What it is

Continuous futures for energy, metals, grains, softs and livestock, with roll dates, and a few FRED spot prices.

commodity prices daily: 26 continuous futures (yahoo-cont) and 3 FRED spots (fred-spot): daily bars.
commodity cont adj: Back-adjusted continuous closes for the 26 futures.
commodity rolls: Each roll: the window, the date and the price gap.

Source and licence

Source: Yahoo continuous futures (yahoo-cont) and FRED spot prices (fred-spot).

Licence: Yahoo rows: redistribution barred; FRED rows public. This is our reading of the table; counsel decides.

The app shows it only while the server switch SHOW_FUTURES_DATA is on.

Not licensed for display: the futures rows come from Yahoo, whose terms bar redistribution (SHOW_FUTURES_DATA, off). Commodity prices in the app are FRED spot prices.

Coverage and gap years

29 symbols, 187,860 rows in commodity prices daily, from Jan 2, 1986 to Oct 9, 2026.

Years with no rows: none between the first and the last.

Thin years: 1987 to 1997.

Table	Rows	First	Last
commodity prices daily	187,860	Jan 2, 1986	Oct 9, 2026
commodity cont adj	163,539	Oct 29, 1997	Oct 9, 2026
commodity rolls	4,551	Apr 3, 1998	Oct 8, 2026

Freshness

Last row Oct 9, 2026: Up to date on the day measured. Updates: every trading day.

Point in time

Keyed on the trading day; rolls keyed on the roll date.

Back-adjusted series are rebuilt at each roll.

Delisted names

Not a stock dataset.

Known issues

The data docs record no issue for this dataset beyond what is above.

Where it is used

No page in the app shows it yet.

Engine tools that reach it (your AI, over MCP):

run_commodity_backtest COMMODITY momentum backtest: 26 continuous futures (energy, metals, grains, softs, livestock) since ~2001.
run_weather_study WEATHER vs commodity study: monthly degree-day or precipitation anomalies (vs 10-year same-month normal) at a US location (the nearest long-record NOAA GHCN-Daily station per city, named in the...
query_warehouse Run read-only SQL (DuckDB dialect) directly against any research database.

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Every count and date here was measured on Oct 9, 2026 from the QuantGPT engine's warehouse and is read from the catalogue file when the site is built. Metadata only: no vendor rows are shown.