Publisher's Synopsis
Mr. Steven Berley is a former Trading Leader, Risk Director, and Controller working at Enron, Koch Supply & Trading, and Shell. Mr. Berley also has several years' experience directly working for a major C/ETRM vendor and has been an independent expert trading and software consultant for many years with Front-2-Back Consulting. Along with possessing an MBA and CPA, Mr. Berley is truly the rare expert in the Commodity and Energy Trading and Risk Management field. This is the first trading, hedging and risk management book for commodity and energy markets that truly takes the reader from the strategy to the software, all while including the impact of human nature. The book depicts how to attain a mature, successful trading, risk management and hedging program by developing and communicating trading, hedging and risk management strategies to software that correlate to the corporate objectives of maximizing cash flow and earnings. Strategy to software, statistics to stochastics, physical optimization to asset modeling, and risk to accounting are all covered. Agriculture, Energy, Oil, Power, Natural Gas, NGLs, Chemicals, Oil Products, Gasoline, Heating Oil, Propane, and Ethane products are used throughout to show the reader strategies to software that can be used today!
