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Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modelling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy 1st Edition

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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 11, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470012188
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470012185
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.1 x 9.8 inches
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As a former agricultural futures trader who has now moved on to credit, this book was a welcome addition to my bookshelf, as it brings a contemporary voice to the field which has been long overdue. The previous best work was the CBOT's own "Commodities Trading Manual," which has been outdated for a decade. Before the arrival of Helyette Geman's "Commodities and Commodity Derivatives : Modeling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy" the current state-of-the-art for pricing models and information feeds for commodity derivatives was sadly dispersed across journals, often obscure ones. Now increasing attention is being paid to diversified portfolios containing commodity exposure in addition to classic investment vehicles. Along with hedge funds, who naturally seek "under priced" volatility, portfolio managers today must therefore have a command of a wider knowledge base of investment opportunities. This work is therefore, indispensable.

The weakest element of the work is Nassim Taleb's introduction, for which commercial interests and pedagogic considerations no doubt combined.
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Having done some work in commodities, and more recently in commodities derivatives, I was looking forward to reading this book. Helyette Geman has an excellent reputation in both the academic "ivory tower" and the practitioner "real world". While the book definitely attempts to cover a large and hereto unmet demand, it does not deliver a coherent, consistent and careful analysis of the commodities markets.

In offering an introductory overview of commodities spot and futures markets, the book does a decent job. Chapters 1 - 6 are probably the best chapters in the book and reflect the good understanding and thought leadership of the author. These chapters would have benefited from some careful linguistic editing. Frequently, the text reads French although the book is written in English; this linguistic dissonance is at times frustrating.

The last eight chapters are quite uneven. Each chapter is supposed to describe and introduce a commodity market, such as ags, metals, energy, etc, but few of the chapters are able to fully penetrate the material. The chapters and the material in these chapters are uneven, often bordering to the somewhat disorganized, and occasionally challenging to follow a logical flow in the exposition. Granted, the mathematics are there and they are correct for the most time (some steps in chapter 12 only make sense when you switch around the notation, which can be annoying). The chapter on gas markets is somewhat confusing and the treatment of electricity markets is very uneven. The two better chapters in the second half of the book - on metals and oil - are not written by prof Geman.

Is this a useful book? Notwithstanding the problems, it is a useful book as long as the reader and user recognizes its limitations.
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The authority on commodity derviatives. If you trade derivs in commodity markets, you (should) have heard of this book and would highly recommend. You should also look at Espen Gaarder Haug's "The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas" if for the only reason that it includes a computer CD w/ excel spreadsheets and VBA code for all the pricing models he discusses, which is the same and more that Geman covers. Geman does a great job of explaining the options market, volatility, downsides of black-scholes. My favorite explanations were those on the greeks: I think the most clear and concise (as possible) explanations you'll find anywhere.
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I came to this book via a somewhat circuitous path. I was researching the use of Fast Fourier Transforms in computational finance and came to this paper: Option Valuation Using the Fast Fourier Transform (Carr, Madan 1999). That led to something called the Variance Gamma distribution. More recent papers yielded references to the CGMY model, where C is Carr, M is Madan, G is Hélyette Geman and Y is Marc Yor. And that led to Geman and this book.

Despite those heavy academic origins, the book is well-written and should be accessible to practitioners in trading system design. It's especially comprehensive in its description of energy trading. There's an entire chapter on Monte Carlo and analytic solutions for pricing Asian, barrier and quanto options, for example. Oil, gas, electricity and even coal and weather markets are covered. The book does not, for the most part, talk about financial derviatives - options and futures traded on stock indexes, currencies or interest rates.
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As I had background in equity and credit derivatives I found the book to be an excellent introduction to commodities as it covers many aspects that I currently support at Barclays Capital as a technologist; the mathematical notations are not complicated and you can always dig deeper then the book. Definitly a book in your reference library.

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I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the commodities market. Geman writes cogently and minimizes mathematical abstractions to bare necessity. Having read many a text book in my day, I can say this is one of the best.
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The text contains a very readable and intuitive introduction to Brownian motion in the context of pricing commodity derivatives. (The exception is Ito's Lemma, which is simply dropped into the reader's lap without any background or any motivation; see Wiersma's book on Brownian motion for both.) Prof. Geman does an exemplary job of comparing and contrasting the foundations of option pricing for equity options versus commodity derivatives. The last part of the book is a very good (albeit now somewhat dated) introduction the major commodities markets (ag, metals, oil & gas, and electricity). Particularly useful are the explications of the idiosyncracies of each market and why option pricing techniques and instruments will or will not work. A reader with 2 semesters of calculus and a background in standard probability theory (discrete and continuous) should have no problem with the mathematical formalism of the first six chapters. Alternately, read Hull or Choudhry's encyclopedic tome on the bond and money markets for a solid foundation.
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