be careful with commodity funds. If you are referring to the ETF futures, these are fund that based on commodities and is not mean to keep long term. 1 m8 Z/ ^6 E3 Q% k' n. k 7 x' I6 O4 v6 PIf you want to invest in energy, it would be best to invest into companies that produce these commodities, not the future of these actual commodities..