Dear Commodity Traders,
This is a special post on an incredible update, especially for Commodity Traders on Dhan.
For years, commodity trading remained under-adopted among retail traders - not due to lack of access, but due to limited tools, fragmented workflows, and less intuitive platforms compared to equities. Commodity Traders have often operated with basic data, separate margin requirements, and fewer advanced order capabilities - making it harder to participate confidently in this segment.
At Dhan, we decided to democratise this access and make commodity trading simpler from day one with focussed efforts that placed Commodity Traders in the same view as Equity and F&O Traders. This started with having a Unified Ledger and Common Margin for Commodity and Equity Derivative trading from Day 1, enabling Traders with Commodity Charts, Custom Options Strategy Builder for Commodities, Advanced Options Chain with Greeks, including the recent ones like Iceberg, Power Scalper, Super Orders and many others which were made available to Commodity Traders on Dhan.
Being a technology-first company is not just something we say, it reflects in every tool, every data point, and every capability we make available to you. The way you see markets, analyse price action and make decisions should never be limited by the data available to you. This has always driven us to push the boundaries of what retail traders can access. As a result, many of these features today are most loved and also admired by our users who enjoy having the same features and trading capabilities for Equity, F&O and also Commodities.
When we launched 20-Level Market Depth, and later the Full Market Depth for NSE equities and derivatives on Dhan Charts, traders could, for the first time, see the 200 level order book of NSE contracts directly on their charts. This kind of depth that was previously exclusive to institutional desks!
And with the response that we received from all our traders, we knew this had to be enabled across segments and exchanges, especially for Commodity Trading.
Introducing - Full Market Depth for Commodities on Dhan Charts
Full Market Depth for commodities traded (ie. Natural Gas, Crude Oil, Gold & Silver) is now live on Dhan Charts (tv.dhan.co) and Power Scalper. With a single toggle, your standard 5-level depth panel transforms into a live, streaming 200-level market depth, the full picture of demand and supply, right on your charts.
This is not just more rows of data. When you look at 200 levels of depth on a commodity contract, you are looking at almost the entire order book of the exchange in real time. Every update on the order and trade book reflects instantly. You can now see where large orders are sitting, where liquidity thins out, and where price is likely to find support or resistance, all without leaving your chart.
For commodity traders, this changes the way you read the market. Whether you trade Gold, Silver, Crude Oil or any other commodity contract, the depth of the market is now fully visible to you. What was once something you had to infer from price action is now directly in front of you.
We would love to know what you want to see next from the team. What would make your analysis sharper and your trading more informed?
Happy Trading
Kushagra Rohatgi