This educational programme covers the reasons to transact. It explains why market participants enter into deals. By means of video lessons is explained what motivates parties to buy or sell. Attention is given to various physical reasons to conclude deals, as well as various financial reasons to enter the market. Furthermore, the difference between hedging and speculation is set out and specific attention is given to particular concepts like asset-backed trading, proprietary trading and statistical arbitrage.

This course covers the following videos:

1. Reasons to transact – Introduction
2. Reasons to transact – Intermediary services
3. Reasons to transact – Commodity & capacity
4. Reasons to transact – Physical & financial reasons
5. Reasons to transact – Sourcing & sales
6. Reasons to transact – The black box concept
7. Reasons to transact – Balancing
8. Reasons to transact – Liquidation
9. Reasons to transact – Hedging
10. Reasons to transact – Asset-backed trading
11. Reasons to transact – Arbitrage
12. Reasons to transact – Speculation
13. Reasons to transact – Investing
14. Reasons to transact – Comparison
15. Reasons to transact – Proprietary trading
16. Reasons to transact – Statistical arbitrage