As the long short game intensifies, how to manage commodity risk?

Mondo Finance Updated on 2024-01-29

Recently, affected by internal and external factors, the black series has continued to rise, out of a wave of "off-season" **, the commodity market once again ushered in a long and short game. Looking back on the whole year of 2023, the fundamental contradictions of most commodities are not significantly prominent, and the inventory of some commodities is at a low level, which makes enterprises have a stronger willingness to raise prices.

It is worth noting that the Politburo of the Communist Party of China held a meeting on December 8 and put forward the new key content of "effectively enhancing economic vitality, preventing and resolving risks, and improving social expectations". Compared with previous years, "risk management" has once again become the focus of this year's economic work conference, and it will also be the key work of next year.

As we all know, the market has the characteristics of high liquidity, transparency and standardization, which can provide enterprises with effective risk management tools, and through the rational use of tools, enterprises can avoid the risks caused by fluctuations to a certain extent and improve the stability of their operations.

With the deepening of the integration of futures and spots, derivatives such as ** have had an increasingly profound impact on the spot and pricing of the commodity industry chain. Many commodity companies have leveraged these tools to transform their businesses and innovate their models, leading the way in the industry.

To sum up, in the situation of highly volatile long and short games, how to use the market for risk management and improve the variety system of the industrial chain has become the focus of attention of the current commodity industry chain.

Commodity risk management is a complex but vital task, especially in a market environment where long-short gambling intensifies. In order to effectively manage risks, a number of measures are recommended for commodity companies.

Flexibility to adjust hedging strategies:In the case of high market uncertainty, commodity companies need to flexibly adjust their hedging strategies according to their needs, such as flexible switching between the spot market and the ** market, or adjusting the allocation of hedging portfolios to reduce risks.

Do a good job of inventory management:For bulk commodity enterprises, inventory management is one of the important aspects of risk management, reasonably arrange production and sales plans, control inventory levels, and avoid inventory backlogs or shortages.

Establish a risk early warning mechanismEnterprises need to formulate a complete set of rules and regulations and internal control systems, and set up a special risk management system to monitor and analyze the market, issue risk early warning signals in a timely manner, and discover market risks in a timely manner through the established risk early warning mechanism, and take corresponding countermeasures.

Do a good job of money management:Fund management is particularly important in the long and short game, and enterprises should formulate a reasonable plan for the use of funds, control the leverage ratio, and avoid losses caused by the rupture of the capital chain.

Increase transparency of synergistic efficiency:Establish an information sharing mechanism within the enterprise, business leaders and customers, improve the efficiency of collaborative operation in risk control, capital settlement, logistics and transportation, keep abreast of market demand and situation, and provide strong support for transaction decisions.

Rational use of financial instruments:Strengthen the training and Xi of relevant personnel of the enterprise to improve the awareness and understanding of the ** market. It is necessary to be cautious when using financial instruments to avoid excessive speculation and increase risks. Maintain a balanced mindset, ensure that hedging is the first priority, analyze the market situation rationally, and avoid blindly following the herd or trading emotionally.

In short, in the case of the intensification of the long-short game, commodity risk management requires enterprises to carry out comprehensive policies in multiple aspects, form a comprehensive and efficient risk management system, and formulate a variety of measures to reduce risks and achieve stable operations.

As we all know, China is one of the important countries in the production and consumption of bulk commodities in the world, so the impact of the commodity field on China's economy and international ** is very important. Due to China's high degree of dependence on foreign countries, the field of bulk commodities has become one of the sensitive areas in China. In order to have China's own first-class chain pricing power, improve China's influence in the world, and build an independent, controllable, safe and reliable industrial chain and chain, China's bulk commodity enterprises need to carry out in-depth transformation.

In this process, more and more companies choose to participate in the commodity market, and through hedging, physical delivery, basis point price, option portfolio and other derivatives to manage risk fluctuations and market risks, reduce operational risks and investment risks.

Therefore,A professional set of risk management software is especially important!!

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InSmart Cloud Pole CTRM systemThrough digital design, the digitization of business product characteristics, workflows, and operation processes is converted into data, and the data is cleaned, analyzed, and integrated by digital tools, and the enterprise proprietary database is built, and the business process and operation are fully standardized. Push analysis and assist decision-making.

Secondly,The smart cloud CTRM system deeply integrates multiple business scenarios such as data, transactions, warehousing, and transportation servicesSeamlessly inherit the data structure and data authority of the PaaS platform, collect and share the risk data of the group and subsidiaries, provide a one-stop decision support data center, run through the whole process of bulk commodities, give full play to the advantages of real-time sharing of big data, realize risk monitoring, information sharing, centralized management and dynamic early warning, etc., carry out risk monitoring charts, multi-dimensional risk analysis, customer risk portraits, etc., summarize key indicators in enterprise operations for decision-making, and output data charts and statistical kanban. Assist in the refinement of risk management, promote the automation, process, and visualization of risk management, and effectively prevent and resolve risks.

In addition, the smart cloud CTRM futures and spot cloud system not only provides flexible derivatives trading management functions, but also combines advanced risk management models to help the construction of enterprise risk management system, through the setting of strict risk prevention and control indicators, the actual implementation process of the formation of pre-approval, in-process supervision and post-reporting system, multi-dimensional early warning mechanism to enhance the enterprise's ability to perceive risk, complete the transformation from traditional manual risk monitoring to real-time monitoring of the system, risk management in man, machine, system, The organic combination of system and other elements enables the efficient implementation of risk management from top to bottom, and builds a comprehensive risk management system that integrates futures, cash and financial with adaptive pre-event risk assessment, real-time control during the event, and post-event retrospective review.

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