Commodities Trading Training Course
This training course focuses on the major commodities within the Agricultural, Base Metal and energy sectors. Emphasis is placed on the supply and demand for the products, the price drivers and producer hedges including the use of Derivatives.
Commodities Trading Training Course Overview
This training course focuses on the major commodities within the Agricultural, Base Metal and energy sectors.Emphasis is placed on the supply and demand for the products, the price drivers and producer hedges including the use of Derivatives.
Learning Objectives
You gain a broad understanding of supply and demand factors in commodity markets, including the use of derivatives.Course Agenda Highlights
- Commodity Markets in General
- Agricultural Markets
- Grains
- Soft Commodities
- Ethanol
- Soy
- New Demand Factors and Base Metals
- Market Liquidity
- Investment Risks
- Precious Metals
- Base Metals
- The London Metals Exchange
- The Energy Complex
- Oil
- Metallgesellschaft
- Natural Gas
- Coal & Uranium
- Electricity
Who should attend this commodities trading course?
- Commodities traders
- Treasury staff
- Dealers and traders
- Capital markets professionals
- Investment professionals
- Trade finance staff
- Financial markets professionals
- Risk Managers
Why Ethan Hathaway training courses?
- Practical. Learn from experienced and active industry practitioners and what's being practiced by your peers.
- Applicable. Apply what you learn in your job and your career
- Specially designed courses by industry active experts for industry practitioners
- Quality Control. Each expert instructor is interviewed and vetted through our senior management and our 5-point instructor criteria.
- Valuable. Earn more revenue or save your organisation from monetary loss. You and your organisation will quickly earn back your investment on the course fee and more
- Enjoyable. Speakers who have a passion for their topic
- Clear. Turning complex concepts into easy to understand concepts
- Limited seats - each session is limited to between 18-25 seats
What do you receive from an Ethan Hathaway training course?
- You gain knowledge and skills that make you valuable to your company and your career
- Instruction by industry experts
- Course notes and reference package
- Daily lunch, snacks and refreshments
- Certificate of completion
- Meeting your industry peers
- Ask questions relevant to your job
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Your course instructor
Kasper Walet: Kasper Walet has graduated with a Masters degree in Law from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands in 1987. Over the years he has become an expert in all the aspects of trading and risk management of commodities.Kasper started his career at the NLKKAS, the Clearing House of the Commodity Futures Exchange in Amsterdam.After working for the NLKKAS for five years, he was appointed as Member of the Management Board of the Agricultural Futures Exchange (ATA) in Amsterdam at the age of 31.While working for the Clearing House and exchange, Kasper became an expert in all the aspects of trading and risk management of commodities.In 1997 he founded his own specialist-consulting firm that provides strategic advice about (energy) commodity trading and risk management.Kasper has advised government agencies such as the European Commission, investment banks, major utilities and commodity trading companies and various exchanges in Europe, CEE countries, North America and Asia. Some of the issues he has advised on are the development and implementation of a Risk Management Framework, investment strategies, trading and hedging strategies, initiation of Power Exchanges (APX) and other trading platforms, the set-up of (OTC) Clearing facilities, and feasibility and market studies like for the LNG Market.Kasper has given numerous seminars, workshops and (in-house) training sessions about both the physical and financial trading of commodity products. The courses have been given to companies all over the world, in countries like Japan, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Malaysia, China, India, Belgium and the Netherlands.Kasper has published several articles in specialist magazines such as Commodities Now and Energy Risk and he is the co-author of a book called A Guide to Emissions Trading: Risk Management and Business Implications, published by Risk Books in 2004.
Dates & Locations & Fees
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Can't find a session in a city near you?
If there's no session scheduled in a city near you, you have the following options:
- In-house training: If you have a group of 8 or more, consider having us run this course in-house for you
- Co-sponsored training: Between 5-7 people, consider a co-sponsored course - you agree to send this set number of people to the course if we run it in a city near you and Ethan Hathaway sells the remaining seats to other companies
- Distance learning: Less than 5 people, consider distance training format: live trainer presents over phone lines/web at pre-scheduled times (available only for select courses)
- Just tell us where you want the course: Let us know which city you'd like us to run this course in - we'll plan it if there's enough demand
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You may book your place on the course by any of these methods:
- Online booking - simply click on the "Register Me" button next to the course date you wish to register and it will take you through our quick online registration procedure.
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- please include your full contact details. - Fax us the booking form (included in the brochure) to: +852 3014-0721
- Or call: +852 2273-4393 during normal office hours
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