The contemporary refining sector has to contend with many types of risks, among which price risk is considered to be the foremost. Moreover, refineries define it as a commodity risk and identify it with both opportunities and threats carried by changes in prices of crude oil and products of...

We show that LME's (London Metal Exchange) listed forward contracts can be valued using usual formulas for forward contracts and that LME's listed Options, though legally American, are correctly treated as European Options

In over 40 years teaching finance, I have put together hundreds of PowerPoint slides for MBA and Undergraduate level courses on Futures, Options, Derivatives and related topics. I provide them here for download and use without restriction, with the caveat that while I have done my best to make...