In the past trading houses had only two options: spreadsheets or big-budget custom software development programs. Now SaaS-delivered solutions combined with Cloud Computing offer a real, cost-effective alternative. With the global economy, regulatory environment and credit shrinkage increasingly mandating formalized systems for even small trading companies, SaaS offers fast-start, turnkey solutions without up-front investment or resource demands.
Steve Hughes
President & CEO
Aspect Enterprise Solutions
Cloud-based applications — aka Software as a Service (SaaS) — have seen steady growth over the past few years and will continue to grow.
Gartner, Inc., Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Outsourcing, Ben Pring, November 1, 2010

According to Technology Research Analyst Firm Gartner…

We are in the midst of a fundamental shift, as more enterprises start to use services enabled by cloud technologies. This will heavily impact IT services providers, who must now consider strategies for coping with profound changes in the marketplace or risk being left behind.
Cloud Computing:
The Next Generation Of Outsourcing
Ben Pring, November 1, 2010
According to Technology Research Analyst Firm Gartner…
Increasingly, hosted or SaaS-based solutions are gaining favor among end users as a means of reducing capital costs, deployment times and support overheads. While traditionally these solutions were preferred options for smaller end users or end users with limited functional requirements, as the functional capabilities of SaaS - or application service provider (ASP)-based deployments grow, the appeal to larger organizations will widen.
Magic Quadrant For Energy Trading And Risk Management Platforms
Keith Harrison and
David Furlonger
March 18, 2011
AspectCTRM was installed and working for us so fast – quickly enabling us to get a real-time understanding of profit and loss, exposures, price movements in the markets and how we can better manage risk.
Peter Malcom King
Business Development & Strategy Manager
Linetrale Oil Supply & Trading Company, Nigeria

Managing Price And Spread Risk For Refined And Scrap Lead

This white paper sets out the basic principles of using hedging instruments to mitigate exposure to commodity price movements. We have created some simple examples to illustrate:
  • How hedging works to measure and manage spread risk
  • How AspectCTRM supports price risk management and hedging

These are just theoretical examples we have created, although the price data is real and correct. This paper deliberately ignores secondary costs such as TC/RC, Freight, insurance, taxes and duties etc. Clearly these have an impact on P&L which AspectCTRM can also monitor and manage. This paper focuses only on exposure and risk management. This paper uses L ead as the commodity traded and hedged in this case using the LME Lead Future contract. However the principle applies to almost any commodity including iron ore, coal, precious or other base metals, and the hedging instrument may be either exchange traded such as from the LME or CME, or an Over the Counter (OTC) instrument such as a Swap.

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The CEO of one of our customers in Asia, about their quick CTRM implementation time and ability to leverage real-time P&L with AspectCTRM