Seminar D-2 Description, Pricing & Other Information
 

  "NYMEX Operations, Futures Hedging & Basis Risk"

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This seminar is 3 hours in length. (Prerequisite: Seminar Program D-1 or equivalent experience.)

Lesson 2.1, "Exchange Operations & Energy Futures" In this lesson, you will learn: 1) The role of the futures exchange, futures commission merchants and other key players; 2) How the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is structured, and how it operates; 3) How energy futures contracts are bought and sold on the floor of the exchange; 4) The difference between "At-the-Market", "Limit", "Stop -loss" and "Market-if-Touched" broker orders; 5) How futures contracts can be bought and sold electronically on NYMEX's ACCESSSM system; 6) The difference between original, variation, maintenance, spot and super-spot margins; 7) How margin and account maintenance issues are managed by brokerage houses and the exchange; 8) What calendar strips are, and how they are used; and 9) How to go to delivery through the futures exchange.

Lesson 2.2 "Hedging With Futures Contracts" In this lesson, you will learn: 1) Why companies financially hedge; 2) How to create a buyer's, or long, futures hedge; 3) How to create a seller's, or short , futures hedge; 4) How buying and selling strategies, quantities, and execution efficiency impact futures hedging; 5) What hedgulation and spedging mean; and 6) What dynamic hedging is.

Lesson 2.3 "Basis, Basis Risk & Futures Hedging" In this lesson, you will learn: 1) The many different meanings of the word "basis"; 2) The difference between locational, time and product basis; 3) Why the terms widening and narrowing of the basis can lead to confusion and miscommunication; 4) How basis is represented in the fundamental energy trading equation; 5) What basis risk is and how it impacts futures hedges; and 6) Three different examples of basis "blowout".

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