Fundamentals of commodity spot and futures markets -- Equilibrium relationships between spot prices and forward prices -- Stochastic modelling of commodity price processes -- Plain-vanilla option pricing and hedging -- Risk-neutral valuation of plain-vanilla options -- Monte-Carlo simulations...

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Realized variance option and options on quadratic variation normalized to unit expectation are analysed for the property of monotonicity in maturity for call options at a fixed strike. When this condition holds the risk-neutral densities are said to be increasing in the convex order. For...