. "ty contract, whether long or short; (B) puts, calls, straddles and options in any domestic or foreign securities and short sales of such contracts and of securities; (C) interests in oil, gas, coal, gravel, sand, timber, sulphur, precious and semiprecious stones, minerals, metals and their ores, including but not limited to iron, aluminum, copper, rhodium, palladium, platinum, radium, uranium and" . . .