Investing in Commodities through Futures Contracts

The diploma thesis focuses on the analysis and comparison of selected commodities in order to create an investment recommendation to diversify the hedge fund's equity portfolio. The theoretical part deals with issues related to the investment portfolio, commodities, trading through futures contracts and explains the applied analytical methods. In the practical part, commodities are first selected, which are then analyzed by selected methods and finally compared by a comparative method. The last part of the work contains, based on the results, a proposal to expand the investment portfolio and the process of making investments through commodity futures contracts