Commodities have drawn a wider range of market participants looking for returns and enhanced exposures to a broad range of asset classes, which has led to a significant rise in interest in commodity markets around the world in recent years. This increase is not just attributable to rising living standards and the corresponding changes in consumption patterns. Currently, commodities play a significant role in the portfolios of asset managers and hedge funds, among others. All market players now have access to a wider range of instruments thanks to physical processes related to these markets, such as improved processing, genetic alterations of organisms, and improved risk management systems.
The emphasis of this study is on identifying and comprehending the dangers and nuances of derivatives structures and transactions from the viewpoints of the creator, processor, and financial institutions. Its goal is to give business and risk managers the knowledge and abilities they need to adequately identify, comprehend, evaluate, and mitigate the shifting risks that the cash and derivatives markets present.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Review and fully comprehend the methods and processes used in the cash market.
Gain knowledge of the regulatory frameworks
Describe how risk is managed using derivatives and structured products.
Describe the workings of several related derivative products as well as collateralization requirements and problems.
Understand intuitively the pricing, hedging, and other problems related to derivative products.
personnel in accounting and finance
Managers of corporate risks
Dealers, Brokers, and Traders
Asset Managers
Managers of Sales Compliance
Portfolio Directors
Audit
Corporate operations and the role of commodity risk
Commodity market categories
The unique nature of physical vs financial assets
Market characteristics: Exchange traded vs OTC
Price discovery and market transparency
Ags, Energies and Metals – who are the participants
Speculators, hedgers and investors
More detail on energy markets – products, suppliers and consumers
More detail on Metal markets – products, suppliers and consumers
More detail on Ag markets – products, suppliers and consumers
The role volatility, black swans and market blow-ups
Pricing forwards and futures
The cost of carry model
Mean reversion in commodity pricing
Hedging and risk reduction
How option prices change
American vs. European options
Option spread trading – money spread and calendar spread
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