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Oil & Gas Hedging – Put Options
What you'll learn
What put options are and how they function in commodity hedging
How oil & gas producers use puts to establish a price floor
Key terms: strike price, premium, expiry, and intrinsic value
Step-by-step examples of using puts to hedge crude oil and natural gas
The benefits and limitations of using puts compared to swaps and futures
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What is Metal Trading
What you'll learn
The difference between precious metals and industrial metals
How metal markets operate (spot, futures, ETFs, and CFDs)
Factors that influence metal prices (e.g., inflation, supply/demand, geopolitics)
Common trading strategies for gold, silver, copper, and more
How to analyze metal markets using technical and fundamental tools
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Trading Silver
What you'll learn
The fundamentals of the silver market and how XAG/USD is traded in forex and CFD platforms
Key economic indicators and industrial factors that influence silver prices
The relationship between silver, gold, and the US dollar — and how to use it to your advantage
How to apply charting tools, price action, and technical indicators to trade XAG/USD
Trading strategies tailored to silver’s volatility, including trend, range, and breakout setups
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Trading Gold
What you'll learn
The fundamentals of gold trading and how XAU/USD works in the forex and CFD markets
Key economic, geopolitical, and technical factors that influence gold prices
How to use gold as part of a risk management or diversification strategy
How to apply technical indicators and charting tools specifically to gold markets
Strategies for trading gold in different market conditions — ranging from trend-following to breakout trading
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Introduction to Options
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
Options trading offers traders and investors the choice, but not the obligation, to buy or sell assets like cryptocurrencies and stocks at a fixed price.
In options trading, most trading activity and profits come from buying and selling options contracts rather than exercising them to trade the underlying asset.
American options can be exercised at any point before they expire, whereas European options can only be exercised on their expiration or exercise date.
Understanding calls, puts, premiums, expiration dates, and strike prices is key to making informed decisions in options trading.
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Introduction to Base Metals
What you'll learn
Base metals are non-ferrous industrial metals including copper, aluminum, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. These metals appear in both industrial and commercial applications, therefore list of market participants who could hedge their price risk is vast. Some firms are hedging a physical price exposure due to their involvement in the supply chain of the metal, while others trade base metals as an investment asset. Discover how base metals futures can help you take part in the opportunities of this market, from how the contracts are constructed to how they may fit into your trading strategy.
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Precious Metals
What you'll learn
How to Manage Precious Metals Price Risk
There are numerous examples of how future and options can be used to manage economic risks inherent in commercial operations and in investment portfolios. This module discusses risk management using COMEX and NYMEX Precious Metals futures.
Market prices respond to changing circumstances. We all know that prices will be different in the future to how they are today, but we do not know how different they will be. At a more basic level, while some people make predictions, no one knows with certainty whether prices will be higher or lower in the future.
