Nat Gas Hedging Workshop

Presented by:

Thomas Saal, Senior V.P. Energy, Hencorp Becstone Futures, LC

Edward Kennedy, Senior V.P. Energy, Hencorp Becstone Futures, LC

Al Bean, Partner, ACT Energy Management

with Luncheon Speaker:

Bert Kalisch, President & CEO, American Public Gas Association

About the Presenters:

With more than 70 years combined of real world experience in natural gas futures trading and hedging, these three well-known veterans of the gas world will go beyond the usual hedging and risk management tutorials to reveal today’s techniques for identifying price trends and market timing, including the use of fundamental and technical market indicators. Only once or twice a year are they able to take time from their primary jobs as natural gas brokers and price risk management consultants to offer this workshop to the public.

Workshop Highlights: (full agenda):

Where's the Market Going?

Utilizing Information Provided by the Market

Types of Traders and Their Motives
Supply-Demand Balance Approach versus Marginal Analysis
Market Profile, Moving Average, Stochastics and Fibonacci Retracements

What Can You Do About it?

Understanding the Types of Risk that Exist
Using Futures and Options to Hedge that Risk
Storage Hedge: Maximize the Spread and Minimize the Cost

Who Should Attend:

Anyone who is involved in or responsible for the management of natural gas price risk within their organization. More generally, this may also include individuals who deal with the exposure to general commodity or energy commodity price risk for companies involved in natural gas, including:

Producers/Marketers
Pipelines/Storage/LNG
LDCs/Utilities/Municipalities
Independent Power Producers
Industrial/Commercial Gas End-Users

Prerequisites:

None, other than an understanding of the basic tenets of commodity hedging using futures and options. This workshop will build on what was covered in the previous hedging workshops presented by Tom Saal and Ed Kennedy. Specifically, this workshop will provide a deeper analysis of how to read the natural gas market as well as a detailed, hands-on options and storage hedging workshop and tutorial.

Past Attendees (view list) of IPI's other Natural Gas Hedging Workshops represent a broad cross-section of the industry, and include:

Energy Marketers
Futures Traders
Risk Managers
Commercial and Industrial End-Users
Utility and LDC buyers
Procurement Managers
Producers
Analysts
Economists
Finance and Accounting Personnel
Compliance directors
Association representatives and
Senior executives

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