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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my sincere gratitude and indebtedness to my project

supervisor Mrs. Ch. Hymavathi for her valuable suggestions and interest throughout the

course of this project

I am also thankful to Head of the department Mr. D. Vijay Krishna for providing

excellent infrastructure and a nice atmosphere for completing this project successfully

I convey my heartfelt thanks to the lab staff for allowing me to use the required

equipment whenever needed

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family for their support

through the work. I sincerely acknowledge and thank all those who gave directly or

indirectly their support in completion of this work

Mr. M .Sai Kumar

Mr.Y. Veeranjaneyulu

Mr.P. Munesh

Mr.P. NageswaraReddy

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LIST OF FIGURES

Fig.No Names of Figure Page No.

4.1 Occupation 23

4.2 Annual income 24

4.3 Awareness 25

4.4 Term of trading 26

4.5 Reasons for not trading 27

4.6 Opinion about commodity 28

4.7 Investment advice 29

4.8 Term of investment 30

4.9 Commodity of more value 31

4.10 Reasons for commodity price fluctuations 32

4.11 Does one commodity affects other 33

4.12 Commodity you prefer 34

4.13 Reasons for fluctuations in crude oil 35

4.14 Level of profits 36

4.15 Common phenomenon for all fluctuations 37

4.16 Why you prefer gold 38

4.17 Factors influencing gold prices 39

4.18 Control of commodity market 40

4.19 Reasons for not trade 41

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LIST OF TABLES

Table. No Names of Table Page No.

4.1 Occupation 23

4.2 Annual income 24

4.3 Awareness 25

4.4 Term of trading 26

4.5 Reasons for not trading 27

4.6 Opinion about commodity 28

4.7 Investment advice 29

4.8 Term of investment 30

4.9 Commodity of more value 31

4.10 Reasons for commodity price fluctuations 32

4.11 Does one commodity affects other 33

4.12 Commodity you prefer 34

4.13 Reasons for fluctuations in crude oil 35

4.14 Level of profits 36

4.15 Common phenomenon for all fluctuations 37

4.16 Why you prefer gold 38

4.17 Factors influencing gold prices 39

4.18 Control of commodity market 40

4.19 Reasons for not trade 41

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ABSTRACT

Commodity market is a place where all investors trade commodities by purchasing and

selling them. Now a day the fluctuations take major part in deciding the price of the

commodities. The fluctuations depend upon several economic and technical factors that

decides price of the commodity. So this project main objective is to study the people

(post graduates and investors) behavior towards the fluctuations in commodity market.

The research methodology used was survey method through which questionnaires were

filled by respondents to give their opinions towards commodity market fluctuations. The

respondents gave different opinions about commodity market fluctuations. Analyzation

and interpretation of data was done with the help Microsoft excel sheet through drawing

tables and pie charts. Findings, suggestions, conclusions and recommendations were

given according to the data interpretation