About this course
This course offers you a solid introduction to the services provided by the London Metal Exchange and demonstrates how these services can improve your organisation’s approach to price risk management. It provides a practical overview of operations, structure, products, trading terminology and procedures. Both theoretical and practical skills developed at this course can be applied easily in the workplace.
What you will learn
- Become familiar with the LME’s prompt date structure and trading procedures
- Gain a full understanding of the LME’s market terminology
- Understand the benefits of the delivery process used by the LME
- Gain an understanding of the benefits of clearing and the role of LME Clear
- Learn how to access the LME through member firms and the role of a broker
- Understand what futures and options are
- What it means for a contract to be physically settled or cash-settled, and how to use each type
- How to identify the risk position of a company
- How to reduce risk using futures and options
- Differentiate between types of hedges and choose the right hedging instrument
- What carries are, and what borrowing and lending mean
- Basics of option pricing
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