Download or read book Commodity Spread Trading - Take Advantage of the Seasonality written by David Carli and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least once in your life, you have seen the movie "Trading Places", during the Christmas holidays it is a must. The trade on pork bellies at the beginning; the orange juice report, with which the two starring, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, take revenge on Duke cousins... priceless! Wheat, coffee, orange juice... not only you can use them to prepare a delicious breakfast, but also trade them with profit. Trading with commodities is the most fascinating and intriguing, as it includes uncommon characteristics to any other market: seasonality, correlations, and many other aspects which offers unique advantages. Spread trading is the best way to trade commodities and provides an excellent opportunity to diversify your portfolio, reducing the risks. Balancing, covering and protecting the portfolio should be the trader's first goal. "Take Advantage of the Seasonality" is the first volume of the series "Commodity Spread Trading." The book is a real and complete course on commodities and spread trading. You will learn aspects that you will not find in any other book or course, and they come from over 25 years of experience in financial markets, even as a fund manager for a small Italian investment bank. "Take Advantage of the Seasonality" is an eBook suitable for everyone, experienced traders and beginners, for those who have decided to invest in commodities and want to learn all there is to know about them. What you will learn by reading "Commodity Spread Trading - Take Advantage of the Seasonality": - what spread trading is (the best way to trade commodity futures); - how to use the main statistical software for your analyses (Moore Research, SeasonAlgo, SpreadCharts);- the most important reports, and how to read them; - the term structure to understand if you are facing an anomaly or a normal market movement; - how to use contango and backwardation to your advantage;- why you have to pay attention to the starting date of a seasonality;- multi-leg spreads; - why you have to take into account the First Notice Day (FND) and the Last Trading Day (LTD); - how to exploit the manipulation; - the subjective probability, for selecting the entries and exits; - the Value-at-Risk, to set the stop-loss. If you are a beginner and desire to learn to trade with raw materials, or you are a trader who wants to diversify his investments, "Commodity Spread Trading - Take Advantage of the Seasonality" is the best and cheapest way to achieve complete knowledge of commodities. You will not need other books or courses. All you need to know (even aspects that will never be explained to you because they are the result of my experience) are contained in "Commodity Spread Trading - Take Advantage of the Seasonality."