Commodity Trading Academy

This E-Learning course covers: What are Financial Options? Financial Option Terminology Pay-off diagrams How much are Options worth? Intrinsic Value Extrinsic Value Modelling Options - Binomial Pricing Model, Monte-Carlo Simulation and Statistical Model using Normal Distribution Time Value How to calculate Historical Volatility How to calculate Implied Volatility and how to use it Log-Normal Distribution and why it is used trading crude oil options Volatility Smiles and Surfaces Put-Call Parity What is Delta and how to use it How to trade Volatility using option strategies The Other Greeks Options Trading Strategies Embedded options in physical portfolios Access to Ignite trading simulator - A 10-minute trading tutorials where you will be able to trade financial crude oil options, try different option strategies. Plus, a 10-minute trading tutorial where you will model physical optionality and delta those options to monetise.  Experience how traders make money capturing physical optionality in their portfolios, understand your price exposures, and live profit/loss. Read more

This E-Learning course covers: Why hedge Basis risk Swaps as hedging instruments Types of hedging A detailed example of hedging a fixed price cargoes A detailed example of hedging a floating price cargoes Operational impact on pricing Access to Ignite trading simulator - a 10-minute trading tutorial where you will be able to apply arbitrage hedges to a Bakken crude oil cargo and price risk manage the cargo as the purchase and sale price in/out. Experience how traders trade the physical oil markets, see your price exposures, and live profit/loss.     Read more

This E-Learning course covers: Explains physical arbitrage Different aspects of crude oil Voyage chartering Time charter Bareboat charter Contract of affreightment Worldscale - what it is and how it works Operational costs of arbitrage Financial risks When traders arbitrage Netback calculation Access to Ignite trading simulator - a 10-minute trading tutorial where you will be able to trade Bakken crude oil cargoes loading US Gulf Coast and Urals crude oil cargoes loading Baltic, charter vessels and manage the risk exposures. Experience how traders trade the physical oil markets, see your price exposures and live profit/loss.     Read more

This E-Learning course covers: What is storage Why store oil The costs associated with storing oil The benefits of storing oil When traders store oil Types of market structure  How to hedge a storage play  Access to Ignite trading simulator - a 10-minute trading tutorial where you will be able to store a Bakken crude oil cargo in Cushing, USA and apply hedges to capture a storage play.  Experience how traders trade the crude oil markets, see your price exposures and live profit/loss.       Read more

This E-Learning course covers: What are settlement prices and why are they important How settlement prices are determined Price reporting agency settlement assessment methods explained The history of market on close (MOC) and pricing window's Fundamental principles of MOC Pros and cons of pricing windows When is MOC and how long it lasts A MOC timeline Pricing window methodologies A pricing window in action Hedging in the pricing window Pricing window trading strategies Access to Ignite trading simulator - a 10-minute trading tutorial where you will be able to trade partial cargoes and futures during physical pricing windows and price risk manage a Forties (North Sea) crude oil cargo as the purchase price's in.  Experience how traders trade the physical crude oil markets, see your price exposures, and live profit/loss.     Read more

This E-Learning course covers: What is physical cargo trading Physical delivery terms Factors that influence supply Factors that influence demand Crude oil quality Contractual considerations Price reporting agencies - who are they and what they do Explains floating prices and benchmark prices What is crude oil differential trading Access to Ignite trading simulator - a 10-minute trading tutorial where you will be able to speculatively trade Oseberg (North Sea) and Forcados (Nigeria) crude oil physical cargoes with a 10 cargo trading limit.  Experience how traders trade the physical oil markets, see your price exposures and live profit/loss.     Read more