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Hedging
Risk Management
Commodity Investments
Portfolio Management
Alternative Investments / CTA
Trading Education & Trading Systems

Hedging

The main purpose of a hedging program is to protect against adverse price changes in the future. Therefore, the undesirable price change risk can already be passed on through the futures market.
 
The integration of forward contracts (futures) into a well-organized hedging program can provide a solid competitive advantage to companies that need to buy / sell e.g. power, equities, foreign exchange, cotton, energy (crude oil, natural gas, gasoline) or grain etc. already today in order to be able to perform reliable price calculations.​

The benefits of this are manifold: stable procurement or sales prices, optimization enables savings, sustainable risk reduction as well as securing profit margins.​

Commodity Investments

The world of commodities is very diversified - from crops to livestock to food (renewable commodities) to metals and energy (non-renewable commodities), investors have a huge range of options to trade in commodities.
 
Investing in commodities allows investors to diversify their portfolio and also hedge their asset investment against rising inflation. Commodity prices rise and fall in different cycles than equities, some commodities are exposed to climate factors (weather or natural disasters) and others are more responsive to political decisions.
 
Ultimately, investors can also invest in equities of commodity companies. In this case, investors are "de facto" not betting on commodities themselves, but only on the entrepreneurial risk of the commodity company.

Alternative Investments / CTA

For commodity investments, a broadly diversified portfolio, combined with sophisticated risk and money management, is essential. Therefore, one speaks of a "long & short" investment without benchmark limitation to achieve absolute return.
 
Such a portfolio is, in comparison to classic "long-only" strategies, actively managed by means of quantitative trading strategies, which are provided with a consistently applied money and risk management.​

Risk Management

In risk management, there is the term "black swan": a completely unexpected event that no one expected.

The establishment of a functioning risk management system is the foundation of a company; especially in a trade-oriented one. Whether in the financial sector, in the agricultural environment or in the energy sector, the risk manager helps to identify risks at an early stage and to counteract them in time.
 
Without risk management, problems arise. Many problems because the risks were not properly considered beforehand. Let's remember: A problem used to be - when it was young, small and cute - a risk. It became a problem because nobody took care of the risk!​

Portfolio Management

The traditional portfolio will continue to be in demand, although voices from the asset management industry are saying that a passive investment strategy is no longer in line with today's opportunities.
 
Therefore, the question is how to achieve an improved risk distribution with a risk-minimized approach - solutions to systematically beat the market are available.​

Trading Education & Trading Systems

There is no uniformly regulated training to become a trader. No successful trader buys a stock at random and hopes that it will behave according to his ideas. Professional traders plan exactly what to buy, when to buy and when to sell.
 
Professionals hedge against losses and automatically get out when the price falls below a certain level. Furthermore, part of money management, for example, is what professional traders call their value protection strategy, to limit the stake per trade as well as the trading stake in total.
 
The increasing digitalization requires adaptive trading systems, which are individually adjusted to the needs of investors. A good trading system always consists of several components: Market set-up, trading plan, risk and money management, which are important components to be successful in the markets in the long run.