Commodity Pricing

About the online training programme

This course contains animation-style videos with narration which set out the pricing of commodities. It is explained how pricing takes place and what factors influence commodity prices. In specific, attention is given to fundamental price driving elements, such as the availability and utilisation of physical capacity, FX rates, weather and seasonality.

Course contents

This course covers the following videos:

1. Introduction
2. Economics – Law of supply and demand
3. Economics – Demand and utility
4. Economics – Supply and cost
5. Economics – Equilibrium
6. Price drivers – Factors
7. Price drivers – Mean–reversion
8. Price drivers – Weather and seasonality
9. Commodity indices
10. Price driving factors – Price-indexation
11. Price driving factors – Demography & economy
12. Price driving factors – Reserves & production
13. Price driving factors – Technology & economic viability
14. Price driving factors – Consumption & processing
15. Price driving factors – Storage & storage capacity
16. Price driving factors – Transport & transport capacity
17. Price driving factors – Social factors & politics
18. Price driving factors – Quality
19. Price driving factors – FX rates
20. Price driving factors – Inflation
21. Price driving factors – Correlation & diversification
22. Price driving factors – Substitution
23. Price driving factors – Environmental issues
24. Price driving factors – Seasonality
25. Price driving factors – Weather
26. Price driving factors – Mean-reversion – Introduction
27. Price driving factors – Mean-reversion – Merit order
28. Price driving factors – Mean-reversion – Merit order – Electricity
29. Price driving factors – Mean-reversion – Merit order – Electricity – Complications

This course also includes examination and certification.