Any Energy Traders around?

[Jock Strap]

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[Hereward]

What commodity? Physical or paper? Feel free to PM me. My company has a Singapore office.

[Skipppy]

I have a mate trading carbon if you need an idea of what that's all about!

[Hereward]

Ah, sorry, not my area. Good luck, man.

[DJFish]

A quick Google produced this: http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file41845.pdf
If you want training these guys are really good: http://www.mjmenergy.com/PC.htm
Historical data and market comment from here: http://www.heren.com/heren_gas.php?MenuId=1
Tons of energy related fun here; http://www.nationalgrid.com/

[greathorwood]

Am on the Exchange Traded derivatives side rather than physical so probably not much cop for this specific example but feel free to PM me if you need anything in that arena.

[ShadownINja]

If it falls a lot, go long, with a 500 tick stop, I heard.

[Monkey boy 1]

Skipppy said:

I have a mate trading carbon if you need an idea of what that's all about!

Is that a coal merchant then ?

[Dr KT]

ShadownINja said:

If it falls a lot, go long, with a 500 tick stop, I heard.

Huh? Price falls you go short; sell high, buy low.

Price increases, go long - you gain the increase in price.

Unless you were of course.

If you have any form of access to Bloomberg, get onto it- alot of info on there.

[pgtips]

Getting hold of 'free' price data is always tricky. A few good sites:
1) For international coal and carbon prices - http://www.eex.com/en/
2) Within day power prices (the balancing mechanism) use http://www.elexon.co.uk/. Would be worth you reading this also for the trading and settlement code. Getting time series data off here is a bit tedious though
3) Otherwise subscribe to a few websites for trials - Platts, Heren and Argus all do free trials

Of course GB day ahead power very highly correlated (approx 85%) to day ahead gas prices, so worth making sure you have a good grasp on gas fundamentals (piplines and storage capacity / utilisation).

HTH

[ShadownINja]

Dr KT said:

ShadownINja said:

If it falls a lot, go long, with a 500 tick stop, I heard.

Huh? Price falls you go short; sell high, buy low.

Price increases, go long - you gain the increase in price.

Unless you were of course.

If you have any form of access to Bloomberg, get onto it- alot of info on there.

If you're bored... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=620...