Futures markets and commodity risk management online course
Learn all you need to know about the futures markets and how you can benefit from them:
- Risk management strategies for a more predictable financial performance
- Educated conversations when collaborating with your advisors
- Negotiate better prices with your grain merchants
provided by:
Course coordinator
Professor Joost M.E. Pennings
He has a family farm in the South of the Netherlands, primarily growing wheat, barley and sugar beet.
The Commodity Risk Management Academy is providing Farmers Weekly readers with a discount to access Professor Pennings online course.
Course overview
In the online course, Joost explains how you can use futures to better negotiate prices and to hedge your risks while capitalising on price relationships between local and futures prices. Prof Pennings starts with an introduction on hedging and subsequently shows how you can optimise your risk management strategy so that you achieve the best possible risk-return balance.
After the course you will be familiar with how the futures markets work, how you can use them to better negotiate prices and hedge effectively.
The course coordinator and expert is Professor Joost M.E. Pennings, an authority in the field of risk management and commodity futures and options markets.
Online courses: | Time video |
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Overview of the course | 9m 41s |
Part 1: The value of commodity risk management and hedging | 24m 17s |
Part 2: Basic features of commodity futures and hedging mechanism | 1h |
Part 3: Basis risk-extending hedging mechanism | 1h 23m |
Part 4: Hedging effectiveness and optimal hedging ratios | 32m |
In total part 1 - 4 | 3h 19m 17s |
Part 5: Market liquidity | 19m 29s |
Part 6: Clearing | 48m |
Part 7: Market participants | 30m |
Part 8: Spreads and type of orders | 33m |
Part 9: What needs to be understood | 16m 25s |
In total part 5 - 9 | 1h 53m 54s |
Pricing
- Online
- 5+ hours - Self paced
- Tutor support
- Interactive courses
- Unlimited 24/7 access for 3 months
Futures markets and commodity risk management online course
In the online course Pennings explains how you can use futures to better negotiate prices and to hedge (part) of your risks while capitalizing on price relationships between local and futures prices.
Sign up nowFrequently asked questions
The first step is to sign in and pay online, this process only takes a couple of minutes, you will need an email address.
Within 24 hours you will receive your login credentials.
You will get a link of the platform for online courses: MEDIASITE.
You will sign in the first time and confirm your email.
The next time you login the system will recognize you.
At any time you can stop the video’s. The course will remember were you stopped.
Contact our support team at support@fwi.co.uk
Anyone who wants to understand the futures markets and learn more about commodity risk management and strategies.
The course is available for three months. Need longer? Give us a call.