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Meet the college students trying to reverse an obscure ban on trading onion futures

Meet the college students trying to reverse an obscure ban on trading onion futures
MarketWatch Tuesday 20 October 2026, 13:24 UTC By Joseph Adinolfi 1 min read
Key Points

In the U.S., investors can legally trade futures contracts tied to all sorts of commodities, from pork bellies to oil to the computing power needed to power artificial-intelligence models.

In the U.S., investors can legally trade futures contracts tied to all sorts of commodities, from pork bellies to oil to the computing power needed to power artificial-intelligence models.
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