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Using SDX Commodities & Energy to Manage Your Risk

SDX Commodities & Energy can help you to manage your:

Market risk, i.e., the risk that the value of your investment will decrease due to moves in market factors.

You can do this as follows:

Displaying a last day payout chart

For more information see Working with Charts.

Display the effect of market data changes on a position.

You can do this in a number of ways, as follows:

By changing (or shifting) the term structure, you can see how different sets of rates will affect the position of a portfolio. This lets you examine different scenario analyses.

See Shifting Data used in the Term Structure.

To see the effect of market data changes on a position, use the risk matrix feature.

Looking at the total risk of a portfolio—using the Greeks Display Window

Using SDX Commodities & Energy as a corporate hedging tool

You can use SDX Commodities & Energy to help hedge your exposure and interact efficiently both internally within the company and externally with the various financial institutions.

You can do this using the:

Portfolio page

Risk Matrix

Risk charts

These tools let you evaluate various hedging strategies and find the solution that is most suited to your risk profile.

Counterparty credit risk, i.e., the possibility that the counterparty will default.

For more information see Credit Check Window.