Gain a broad background in the futures industry and learn key strategies that will help you manage successful futures transactions. The authors review the latest trends in energy futures trading and review the fundamentals of trading, hedging, technical analysis, risk management, and regulation of energy futures and options trading. Web sites are provided to guide you to the latest energy information systems.

Contents:

• Energy futures, past and present
• Oil trading and futures markets
• Natural gas trading and futures
• Electricity trading and futures
• Fundamental analysis of energy commodities
• An introduction to technical analysis
• Options strategies
• Development and integration of hedging strategies
• Deliveries, ADPs, and EFPs
• Risk management
• Accounting, taxation, and internal control
• Managing supply and trading organizations
• Energy information: content, delivery, use by future traders
• Regulation of energy futures and options trading
• Energy and e-commerce
• Author bios
• Index