Metals Commodity Hedging and Price Risk Management

Commodity & Ingredient Hedging helps our clients manage the volatility of metals pricing with expert guidance. We understand the challenges of managing complex metal exposures, including metals hedging across inventories, forecasting, and multi-leg contracts. Manufacturers, processors, and metal buyers count on our expertise in copper, steel, and other industrial metals to help them develop tailored hedge strategies. We empower clients to build a comprehensive and transparent view of overall risk in metals commodity markets, increasing their ability to identify and mitigate potential changes that would directly impact their bottom-line.

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Robust Technical Resources

Our clients have secure access to a customized risk management platform that integrates market data and extensive charting capabilities alongside a unique and detailed model of their operation that includes input/output mapping, price exposure forecasting, and margin simulation. Through this versatile website, companies can:

  • Stress test their position for capital requirements

  • Analyze market structure and dynamics — from open interest to implied volatility skews

  • Evaluate new strategies before executing them on the exchange

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Personalized Guidance on Market Strategy

CIH provides a structured, process-driven methodology to help clients filter through the noise, digest what’s pertinent, and evaluate appropriate strategies that includes:

  • Personalized, ongoing support from a CIH consultant

  • Structured reviews to assess your progress

  • Hedge disciplines that are tailored to your specific needs

  • Technology integrations that provide modeling and advisory support for confident execution

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Public Educational Seminars

Targeted by industry, each CIH seminar aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage the full range of available contracting alternatives to manage metals price risk and gain a greater degree of control over profit margins. Focused on Copper and Steel markets, our Metals Seminars will include an introduction to risk management, options, and simulations that allow attendees to manage market risk of a hypothetical operation. These simulations provide attendees a risk-free opportunity to see the implications of their own decisions. We are also registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and offer CPE credits with all of our seminars.

Private Educational Programs

CIH also provides private educational programs that allow for real examples within your business to be discussed and contemplated with your group. Please contact us if you would like to schedule a program tailored to your group’s needs and level of knowledge. Private seminars can be held in our Chicago training facility or a location of your choosing. As with our public seminars, we are registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and offer CPE credits with all of our classes.

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What Our Clients Say About Us

In the videos below, you can hear directly from our clients about how CIH helps agriculture producers gain control over their commodity price risk.

Testimonials are not indicative of future success. Individuals providing testimonials were not compensated.

It shouldn't matter if markets go up or down the next day.

Mike Paustian, Part 1

Paustian Enterprises

February 20, 2020

It's just a really streamlined experience for me.

Mike Paustian, Part 2

Paustian Enterprises

February 20, 2020

That’s one of the things I really appreciate about CIH, they’re not ...

Mike Paustian, Part 3

Paustian Enterprises

February 20, 2020

Having CIH gives me more confidence in executing.

Joe Dykhuis, President

Dykhuis Farms

April 11, 2023

The strategy helps me sleep better.

Ken Qualls, CFO

House of Raeford Farms

February 06, 2018

It’s made my risk management more efficient.

Greg Bell, President

Feedport USA

February 06, 2018
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