Ethanol has been the subject of intense debate following the adoption of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) which established that the gasoline supply in the United States (U.S.) must contain 10% ethanol. This work seeks to identify hedging ratios using dynamic multivariate GARCH to best...

The informational fl ow between oil and spot freight markets is examined in a novel way via the time charter equivalent (TCE) to identify statistical arbitrage trading opportunities. Using Brent and TD3 data, synthetic floating storage positions are constructed, which are shown to be...

One of the most important factors to control for the achievements of investment portfolio returns is risk. If we only think that a 100% positive return is needed to recover a portfolio loss of 50%, we can understand why. With the advent of the exponential growth of technology usage in markets,...