Training Courses at APPEC
Oil Trading Strategies
September 7, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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As oil markets remain volatile despite continued demand growth, traders must understand not only price drivers but also how risk is managed in practice. This course introduces the fundamentals of oil trading, covering physical and paper markets, price benchmarks, and market structure, before explaining the role of basic hedging tools and optionality. Set in the context of a competitive and volatile oil market, the training provides a practical foundation for understanding how simple options strategies are used to manage price risk within established governance and control frameworks.
Training Course Agenda
1. Introduction to trading and markets
- Price assessments
- Benchmarks
- Pricing mechanisms
2. Identify Commercial Risk
- Risk Assessment Matrix
- Carry and Inverse
- Risk categories
3. Risk Management Instruments
- Exchange and OTC markets
- Futures
- Forward
- CFDs / DFLs
- Swaps
- Options
4. Risk Management Techniques
- Hedging with futures, swaps, and forwards
- Hedging with options
- Spread trading
- Basis risk
- Exchange for physical
- Structured instruments
- Hedging strategies
5. Trading Controls
- Mark to Market
- Value at risk
Standard Rate: $1,999
Prices displayed do not include applicable taxes.
Special Group Rate: Register 3 delegates, get the fourth free