This book is essential reading for every commodities trader. Commodities expert Kevin Kerr shares the insights, tips, techniques (and even trading tricks) that he's learned through the school of raw experience on the trading floor and in the pits, right alongside legends such as Paul Tudor Jones. He demystifies the language and ritual of the commodity markets; shows the basics of fundamental analysis; and explains how market makers create pricing. Readers will explore the world of "open outcry trading," and learn how the markets have evolved, w…

This fascinating book will inform the reader about China's natural energy and commodities' resources. A review of the supply and demand market demonstrates that China's emerging economy will require more and more resources in the future. The author looks at oil, natural gas, and alternative renewable energies, amongst others. In addition, strategic alternatives to the exponential demand are revealed, such as international partnerships with global corporations, new drilling and exploration projects, alliances with neighbouring partners, and inve…

The last few years have been a watershed for the commodities, cash and derivatives industry. New regulations and products have led to an explosion in the commodities markets, creating a new asset class for investors that includes hedge funds as well as University endowments, and has resulted in a spectacular growth in spot and derivative trading. This book covers hard and soft commodities (energy, agriculture and metals) and analyses: *Economic and geopolitical issues in commodities markets *Commodity price and volume risk *Stochastic m…

Analyze the current commodity environment and look out over the next few years to identify potential profit situations in Commodities Rising. You'll learn how commodities can be used to reduce risk and increase returns in a balanced investment portfolio. Author and commodities expert Jeffrey Christian debunks much of the misinformation currently circulating about commodities and provides a reasoned reality-check you can use to evaluate the claims and promises of various publications and brokerages in the commodity field. Specific issues address…

Commodity Fundamentals provides comprehensive coverage of supply/demand data for more than 20 physical commodities in the precious metals, energy, grains, and tropical commodity markets. Detailed information on the production, transportation, and storage of each commodity allows traders to monitor developments and identify trading opportunities with a particular emphasis on crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and the gold market. The book also discusses trading techniques that are specific to physical commodities, such as certain types of spread …

Investors worldwide are discovering the enormous opportunities available through commodity options trading. However, because commodities have differing underlying characteristics from equities, commodity options behave differently as well. In this book, two of the field's most respected analysts present strategies built from the ground up for commodity options. Carley Garner and Paul Brittain begin with a quick primer on how commodity options work, how they evolved, and why conventional options strategies often fail in the commodity options mar…

Gain the benefit of Dragana Pilipovic's complete energy risk management system, from devising hedging and trading strategies to the implementation on the trading desk. Pilipovic covers valuation and portfolio analysis, along with tips for managers who must deal with energy risk. Designed for institutions that trade and hedge energy, as well as end-users, "Energy Risk" will be especially useful for key markets such as electricity or natural gas.

GARP's Fundamentals of Energy Risk Management introduces investors to the basic components and some of the basic terminology used in the energy industry. It covers the commodity cycle, energy use and sources, and various risk types, various energy products and the markets where energy is traded. It also introduces certain risk management fundamentals and real option thinking. The book is GARP's required text used by risk professionals looking to obtain their Certificate in Energy Risk Management.

New strategies for investing in gold, an ideal investment in today's volatile world climate unstable and uncertain global economies have occasionally made gold an exceptional investment alternative. Today, with the worldwide availability of cheap money increasing the likelihood of global recession, investors are on the threshold of experiencing just such a period. "Gold" explores how the investment environment for gold will play out over the next few years and discusses how investors of every size can take advantage of the opportunities that wi…

For most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the …