by DamienW | 9 Feb 2018 | Blog, Commodity trading, Derivatives, Tips to get in the shipping & commodity biz :-), Trade finance, Trading companies
When you start dealing with physical commodities there are a lot of risks you need to be aware of! The difficulty comes from the fact that most of them are insidiously hidden and difficult to fully grasp. Below, I categorized 7 type of risk. Please have in mind that...
by DamienW | 28 Dec 2017 | Blog, Book review, Commodity trading, Derivatives, Tips to get in the shipping & commodity biz :-)
Today we have the excellent 📚“Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing for Agricultural, Metals and Energy” by Helyette Geman. The author is well-known academician👩🏻🏫 in her field but she doesn’t feel forced to use a obnoxious vocabulary! Her book...
by DamienW | 9 Sep 2017 | Blog, Book review, Commodity trading, Derivatives
This book covers a wide variety of subject within the agricultural 🌽🌾commodity sphere with a special emphasis on math explanation behind each of them. Option, volatility, forward curve, valuations, spreads are only few of terms explained and demonstrated trough...
by DamienW | 21 Aug 2017 | Blog, Book review, Derivatives
I’ll be blunt. I didn’t like this book. 😒When George Kleinmann claims the most valuable tool is “moving average”, I have trouble to take the guy seriously. That being said, it may have some value for beginners. – The book is general and covers a lot of different...
