I’ve noticed a lot of successful traders trade commodities versus equities.
What makes commodities easier to trade?
Ed Seykota has been doing it for decades:
What makes commodities easier to trade?
Ed Seykota has been doing it for decades:
You’ll quickly get big or go home.
(However trading on embargoed government press releases is illegal. Though rather than kidnapping Clarence Beeks on the train, you can just interview the Florida farmers yourself.)
You would definitely have an advantage in trading oil/gas futures if you had access to ExxonMobil's seismic exploration reports, for example.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2018-10-24/it...
But the insider trading you suggest above, is predicated on having material non public information of ExxonMobil’s.