Course description
Live Online Course: Crude Oil Physical Cargo Risk Management
This live online course contains 12 hours of learning content, including over 3 hours of trading simulations. The course explains:
- How physical crude oil is priced and traded
- Geographical arbitrage, the associated price risks and how best to manage them
- How you manage price risks on crude oil cargoes with different pricing mechanisms
- Why settlement prices are important, what pricing windows are and how they work.
The interactive E-Learning modules should each take 1 hour to complete and forms a pre-read, along with some trading simulation tutorials before attending the live sessions in our virtual classroom.
The live session will last 2 hours and is hosted by a former trader who will talk through the trading concept and how it is applied in the real world (not theoretically). During the session, you will play a complex trading simulation to help you understand and apply the trading concept.
You will receive access to the trading simulator 1 week prior to the first live session. You will be able to play a 10-minute trader training tutorial an unlimited amount of times. The tutorial will reinforce your understanding and allow you to see how it's applied.
Course Schedule:
8-9 Oct 2024
Day 1: 9-11am and 1-3pm GMT
Day 2: 9-11am and 1-3pm GMT
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Suitable for individuals working in organisations such as:
Trading companies, Banks, Brokers, Oil producers, Consumers, Refiners, Distribution companies, Government and Associated organisations.
Including roles in:
Back office, Accounts, Financial operations, Middle office, Trade control, Analysts and Front office, Juniors, Managers and Operations.
You should have an understanding of crude oil paper markets.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate TwoTwoFive Certificate Crude Oil and awarded 12 CPD points.
Training Course Content
- Price Exposures
- 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
- Arbitrage
- 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
- Hedging
- 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
- Settlement Prices and Pricing Windows
- 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
Course delivery details
This Live Online Course is delivered live online, on the set dates and times stated.
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