Chapter 2 – Set Risk Limits This post is actually Chapter 2 (of 8) from our very well-received, 32-page E-Book –Benefiting from VaR – Quick Guidelines for Commodity Risk Practitioners. A quick recap for those who’ve read and enjoyed it, and for those who haven’t yet read it, you can download it now from here […]

A New Approach to Optimize Hedging We recently released a Whitepaper with a New Approach to Optimize Hedging Costs. While this framework can be applied to any industry, we’ve demonstrated its utility specifically for Oil Refining Companies. The results from the framework are encouraging to an extent that it seems well worth exploring further – […]

Corporate Darwinism for Commodity Trading Firms With banks exiting commodity trading, Commodity Trading Firms are at the cusp of a fundamental business shift. Risks are very likely to shoot up, leaving Commodity Trading firms no choice but to evolve and adjust to these shifts. Over the past decade, Physical Commodity trading business has been besieged with […]

Review: Report on Economics of Commodity Trading Firms The recent release of Report on Economics of Commodity Trading Firms is a bold step from a well-respected Commodity Trading Firm (CTF) – Trafigura, in giving an insight and “demystifying” the secretive commodity trading industry. And it is indeed a very impressive read. According to Reuters, “The […]