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Finance Courses

Clearing

As a central counterparty, CME Clearing acts as the buyer to every seller and seller to every buyer to ensure the financial security of the marketplace and reduce clearing participants counterparty risk and achieve operational and financial efficiency.  Gain an understanding of how the Clearing market structure is defined, risk management policies and procedures, and the activities of CME Clearing.

Introduction to Power

CME Group (NYMEX) offers numerous cash-settled futures and option contracts for various electricity markets across North America. The contracts cover both hubs and zones in regional transmission organization (RTO) and independent system operator (ISO) service areas. Learn how this dynamic market is structured and how market participants use power contracts to mitigate price risk in the day-ahead and real-time markets.

Introduction to Natural Gas

The structure of the natural gas market has evolved over time and become one of the most competitive, efficient, transparent, and liquid natural gas futures and options market in the world. Explore the basics of natural gas infrastructure, key impacts like seasonality that affect supply and demand, as well as hedging physical product using futures and options products.

Introduction to Crude Oil

Today’s energy crude oil market is truly global. From West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to Brent and DME Oman, the crude oil market fuels many of the world’s leading economies and impact nearly every nation. Energy crude oil futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk. Explore the key concepts and structure of today’s energy markets, including the factors that affect supply and demand and move prices.  Learn how to use these instruments to hedge exposure and unlock opportunities.

Hedging with Livestock Futures & Options

Livestock buyers and sellers face ever-increasing levels of price risk. CME Group Livestock futures and options provide livestock buyers and sellers with valuable tools to manage price risk and get greater control over their bottom line. This course details how to use futures and options for risk management in the livestock markets, focused on enhancing the hedger’s knowledge base.

Introduction to Lumber Futures and Options

Lumber futures and options provide risk management instruments for a constantly evolving marketplace. Learn more about this smaller sized contract designed to offer a more precise and accessible tool to manage price risk and tailor trading strategies. This course discusses Lumber future and options, their delivery process, and their common uses.

Introduction to Livestock

The livestock complex consists of Lean Hogs, Feeder cattle, and Live Cattle.  Livestock futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk and help put food on the table for a growing global population.  Gain an understanding of the fundamentals that affect supply and demand in the livestock markets. Find out how futures and options provide critical price discovery and risk management roles for a variety of market participants, from farmers, processors, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, traders and more.  Learn about the ways these contracts can be utilized in your portfolio.

Understanding South American Soybean Futures

Financially settled South American Soybean futures will offer a more precise tool to manage exposure to the Brazilian soybean market. Brazil plays a key role in the global soybean market as the largest producer and exporter of soybeans, driving the need for a regional benchmark for price discovery. Learn how South American Soybean futures work and how the spread trade works with our existing North American Soybean futures to easily manage pricing differences between regionally grown soybeans.

Introduction to Grains and Oilseeds

Today's agriculture markets are highly complex. Agricultural grain futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk and help put food on the table for a growing global population. Gain an understanding of the fundamentals that affect supply and demand in the grain and oilseed markets. Find out how futures and options provide critical price discovery and risk management roles for a variety of market participants, from farmers, ranchers, processors, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, traders and more. Discover the ways these contracts can fit into your portfolio.

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