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Advanced Oil Trading: Risk and Hedging has been developed as an interactive trading course, facilitated by a trading /educational specialist who has experience, in both physical and derivative trading.
The delegates will get a unique learning experience where oil trading techniques are explained and shared with them. The program will cover trading and market risks, market structures, hedging, technical analysis and options.
Advanced Oil Trading: Risk and Hedging course is not mathematical and will examine technical and options from a non-quant point of view.
The course is interactive with exercises and simulations using realistic data and trading scenarios in the Asian and European markets. The delegates will look at how to hedge the physical positions, considering when to hedge, which is the best instrument to hedge with, and what basis risks they must live within real trading.
The delegates will get a unique learning experience where oil trading techniques are explained and shared with them. The program will cover trading and market risks, market structures, hedging, technical analysis and options.
Advanced Oil Trading: Risk and Hedging course is not mathematical and will examine technical and options from a non-quant point of view.
The course is interactive with exercises and simulations using realistic data and trading scenarios in the Asian and European markets. The delegates will look at how to hedge the physical positions, considering when to hedge, which is the best instrument to hedge with, and what basis risks they must live within real trading.
What will you Learn?
- Price Risk Management
- Trading Decisions and Market Structure
- Arbitrage and Hedging
- Options
- Technical analysis
Agenda
Price Risk Management:
– Understanding Exposure
– Examination of crude oil pricing: Brent Complex, Oman and Dubai
– Swaps: hedging, CFD’s, differential swaps
*Exercises:
– Long, Short or Flat?: understanding price risk.
– Understanding Risk: when does price risk occur?
– Simple hedging with swaps and futures
– Price discovery for crude oil: Brent and Dubai
– Understanding Exposure
– Examination of crude oil pricing: Brent Complex, Oman and Dubai
– Swaps: hedging, CFD’s, differential swaps
*Exercises:
– Long, Short or Flat?: understanding price risk.
– Understanding Risk: when does price risk occur?
– Simple hedging with swaps and futures
– Price discovery for crude oil: Brent and Dubai
Trading Decisions and Market Structure
– Contango and Backwardation
– Time spreads
– Storage Valuation and Optimisation
– Contango and Carry
*Exercises:
– Understanding Contango and Backwardation
– Using Contango to Store Oil
– Trading Time Spreads on Futures
– Hedging and Liquidity
– Examining how time spreads react to information
– Contango and Backwardation
– Time spreads
– Storage Valuation and Optimisation
– Contango and Carry
*Exercises:
– Understanding Contango and Backwardation
– Using Contango to Store Oil
– Trading Time Spreads on Futures
– Hedging and Liquidity
– Examining how time spreads react to information
Arbitrage and Hedging
– Review of futures, swaps and forwards
– Product cracks
– Arbitrage: natural arbs and trading arbs
– CFD, DFL, EFP and EFS
*Exercises
– Analyzing crack spreads: how will the market react?
– Balancing a portfolio of risk: trade managers and global risk
– Review of futures, swaps and forwards
– Product cracks
– Arbitrage: natural arbs and trading arbs
– CFD, DFL, EFP and EFS
*Exercises
– Analyzing crack spreads: how will the market react?
– Balancing a portfolio of risk: trade managers and global risk
Options
– Introduction to the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model
– Volatility: historical, real, and implied
– Working with the Greeks
– Vanilla options and option strategies
– Complex and Exotic options
– Using options to trade and trading options
Technical analysis
– What is technical analysis?
– Charting
– Formulas
– Using technical analysis and understanding its value
– Introduction to the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model
– Volatility: historical, real, and implied
– Working with the Greeks
– Vanilla options and option strategies
– Complex and Exotic options
– Using options to trade and trading options
Technical analysis
– What is technical analysis?
– Charting
– Formulas
– Using technical analysis and understanding its value
Participants
Oil and product traders
Refiners
Economists
Analysts portfolio managers
Risk managers
Operation Managers
Brokers
Related front
Middle and back office staff
Practical Information
4-day course fee: £3950
Early Bird Price: £3650, available until 8 August 2026
Please note: UK-based companies are subject to 20% UK VAT
Early Bird Price: £3650, available until 8 August 2026
Please note: UK-based companies are subject to 20% UK VAT
Course fee covers:
- Participation in the course
- Course materials in hard copy and e-version
- Lunches and coƯee-breaks during the programme
- 32 CPD credits Internationally Recognised Certificate of the International Business House
– Bank transfer
– Card payment.
– Card payment.
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We provide the convenience of reserving accommodation, which is not part of the
delegate package. For further details, please don’t hesitate to contact us by e-mail
(office@ibhouse.net).
delegate package. For further details, please don’t hesitate to contact us by e-mail
(office@ibhouse.net).
Testimonials
Overall the course was strong
"Overall the course was strong. Good enthusiastic presentations and seemed to meet the varied needs of the group. Well done!"
Group Head of Treasury
Mercuria Energy Trading
Chris is very knowledgeable and engaging, the perfect person
"Chris is very knowledgeable and engaging, the perfect person to deliver the trading course. He had some great stories, had a few great laughs."
Senior Trader
Noble Clean Fuel Ltd
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If you are unable to attend a course, you are welcome to provide a delegate substitution, up to 24 hours prior to the course at no extra charge.
If you wish to transfer to a different course a 10% admin charge will be made if the transfer occurs between 10-29 days before the course.
If you fail to attend the course on which you are booked and have not given prior notice to International Business House then the course fee will remain payable in full.
This cancellation policy is necessary owing to the strict limitation on attendance numbers. IBH reserves the right to amend or cancel any course, course times, dates or published prices. Changes to course prices, times and dates will be advised 30 days before the course
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Chris
He traded oil and energy in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia during a career that spanned eighteen years.
He has worked for an oil major Total, a top trading company Sempra Energy Trading (Singapore), and investment banks. He has extensive experience in supply and trading for refining systems as well as the challenges of running proprietary physical trading books in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
His experience was rounded out with several years of trading derivatives for investment banks in the Asia-Pacific region. Since leaving trading in 2008 has taught finance and trading at top French business schools, presented corporate training in commodities and energy in France and abroad, and consulted with top European companies on trading and contract arbitration.
He is bilingual in French and English.
He has worked for an oil major Total, a top trading company Sempra Energy Trading (Singapore), and investment banks. He has extensive experience in supply and trading for refining systems as well as the challenges of running proprietary physical trading books in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
His experience was rounded out with several years of trading derivatives for investment banks in the Asia-Pacific region. Since leaving trading in 2008 has taught finance and trading at top French business schools, presented corporate training in commodities and energy in France and abroad, and consulted with top European companies on trading and contract arbitration.
He is bilingual in French and English.
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