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Commodity eXtra Learning

Green Field

Commodity eXtra Learning

Agriculture

Explore the global agricultural value chain—from farming and origination to transportation, trading, hedging, and settlements. We provide comprehensive coverage of physical instruments for basis traders, componentized MTM P/L for futures, ratios, basis, and indices. Dive into examples with hedgeable commodities like corn, wheat, soybeans, coffee, and cocoa, as well as commodities priced off an index such as pecans.
Note - All courses are beta versions and final edits will be occuring over q1 of 2026.

Dive into the different commodity classes of softs, grains, oilseeds, nuts and dairy. Learn how they are produced, unique attributes and how they go from farming through the agriculture value chain from a global perspective.

Agriculture
Upstream

Learn all the key transportation methods of transporting agriculture commodities around the globe, including rail, truck and ships and the details that go into the bill of ladings and what is important with respect to scale tickets

Transportation

Learn the complexities of the different physical instruments of priced and unpriced contracts. Along with all the key attributes for each commodity, quality discount schedules, over/underfill schedules and contract cancellation rules.

Agriculture Contracting
and Trading

Learn how hedging occurs in agricultural contracting from the farmer to the trader. All the unique attributes of agriculture futures, efp and against actuals.

Hedging

Explore how traders mark to market their transactions, from a basis or ratio p/l, futures p/l. Understand how a trader views their slate position.

Trading
MTM P/L

Explore financial settlements of the different instrument types, along with non-standard settlements (circles, strings, washouts and contract cancellations)

Financial
Settlements

The counterparty credit risk series goes into detail on exposure measurements, tail and scenario risk, legal and structural risk along wth the overall market structure and credit framework.

Credit
Risk

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