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Book: Energy Risk: Valuing and Managing Energy Derivatives :: Book
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Energy Risk: Valuing and Managing Energy Derivatives
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Product Group: book
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Editorial Review: Product Description
The electricity, natural gas, and other energy markets are on the brink of becoming THE hot opportunity for institutional investors worldwide. In fact, the growth in volume for NYMEX and IPE energy contracts is the only proof you need of the enormous potential in trading these markets. Now, for the first time, this book gives you step-by-step directions on taking advantage of this developing resource. Energy Risk walks you through properly assessing and evaluating the enormous opportunities that are unique to this complex yet vibrant market. It provides not only an expert overview of energy trading but also the philosophies and specific investment strategies you need. Harvard-trained physicist Dragana Pilipovic reveals the intricacies and mechanics of today's energy markets, provides practical answers on how best to get a foothold in energy trading, and also discusses: In-depth explanations of the primary factors that influence energy risk, such as spot price behavior, volatility, and the forward price curve; A detailed introduction to the fundamental price drivers of energy markets including electricity, natural gas, and heating and crude oil; Clearly defined ways that you can use tools introduced throughout the book to achieve your company's crucial risk/return goals. Containing unique trading models that were custom-designed for managing risk in energy and commodity trading, and with over 175 charts and graphs that illustrate key features of the market's equations, correlations, and methodologies. Energy Risk will be the standard energy market reference for many years to come.
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Average Customer Review: 
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Must be great if I can find time to read
Date: 2008-06-15 - 
Comment: I am sure the book must be great provided I find time to read it. As you know, these days there are just so many books and material to read that you cant cope up with it. I have gone through first chapter by now, which was indeed interesting, but not technical (which later chapters are). So I will keep you guys posted chapter by chapter, over next 2 years, as I try to complete this book. Please stay tuned.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: looks like second hand to me
Date: 2008-01-18 - 
Comment: I have the impression that the product was second hand although I though I bought a new! I can read the book, so am happy I guessEnergy Risk: Valuing and Managing Energy Derivatives
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: waste of time and money
Date: 2007-06-14 - 
Comment: Someone , in his review, said that 50% was useless and another reader added that "I wouldn't buy it with my money": I disagee: 99% of the book is utterly useless and would noy buy it with my worst enemy's money. I'd rather spend it on something else.
I saw that there is a new edition: Please do yourself a favor: DO NOT BUY IT!
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: A good general introduction but needs more case studies
Date: 2005-04-12 - 
Comment: It is now a tautology to say that energy derivatives are very important financial instruments. Energizing a market of billions of dollars, they are useful to many different organizations and find their place in myriads of both business and personal portfolios. This book is written for those readers who are just entering the field of energy derivatives, but yet who still have a background in other areas of financial engineering. It emphasizes risk minimization, and also gives some of the author's unique perspective on the subject. Only the first six chapters were read by this reviewer and so only these will be reviewed here.
The first chapter of the book discusses the general properties of energy derivatives and the concept of risk management. The author distinguishes between `quantitative' analysis, which emphasizes the construction of models that replicate market behavior, and `fundamental' analysis, which is an attempt to understand and describe market behavior in terms of the economics of supply and demand. The author emphasizes fundamental analysis in the book. She also outlines what makes energy derivatives unique in their analysis, i.e. what makes them different from interest rate and equity markets in terms of these different analysis categories. Energy markets exhibit stronger mean reversion, she argues, and supply constraints can "shock" the system. These differences motivate the introduction of the topics of `convenience yield' and seasonality that do not have to be used in other types of markets.
Chapter 2 gets into the actual construction of financial models, with the author emphasizing the need for effective benchmarking of these models. She constructs some elementary stochastic price models and introduces some of the basic modeling terminology to be used in the book. One of these concepts is the `convenience yield' that represents the benefit that a holder of a commodity receives by holding the commodity, and is a measure of the balance between the available supply and the existing demand. Defining the convenience yield is difficult, but dominates the mathematical modeling of the energy markets. The author spends a fair amount of time discussing the mean-reversion process with more to come in later chapters. She also discusses the difference between yield and forward rate curves, a forward curve geared toward short-term interest rates, while a yield curve is a discount rate curve representing average rates from the present to points along the time axis.
In chapter 3 the author discusses some of the mathematical/statistical tools involved in energy derivatives, with the analysis of time series and distribution analysis being the two dominant tools that are examined. Time series are used to monitor day-to-day changes in prices, while distribution analysis deals with price levels over extended intervals of time. The material in the chapter is standard, and should be helpful to readers who need a review of it.
Chapter 4 is an introduction to the modeling of spot prices, with the assumption that supply and demand effects converge in the spot market prices. Derivative contracts are bought and sold with the belief that this convergence holds. After a quick look at actual time series of spot prices, the author constructs a lognormal price model and two mean-reverting models. Lognormal price models are of course standard constructions in financial engineering, and are popular for their simplicity and for enforcing positive-definiteness. Negative autocorrelation between spot prices are characteristic of energy markets, and is satisfied in mean-reverting models. The author also introduces one of her models, a two-factor model, with the first factor being the spot price, and the second factor a long-term equilibrium price, which when the latter is zero gives a single-factor model for the energy commodity spot price. Time series analysis is used to obtain the model parameters and distribution analysis is used to test the models over extended time periods. The distribution analysis involves Monte Carlo simulation, and the results showing the differences between actual and sample model simulated distributions.
Recognizing the importance of forward prices in derivatives pricing and risk management, the author gives a detailed treatment of them in chapter 5. The author points out, interestingly, that there is no correlation between energy futures prices to interest rates in the energy commodity markets. The futures and forward prices are valued in an identical manner in energy markets, and energy future price and forward price can be used interchangeably. She also uses the no-arbitrage market condition to show that spot and forward prices are different, and derives partial differential equations for the forward price, both with and without dividends.
Chapter 6 is extremely important, especially for the development of practical trading strategies, for it concerns measures of volatility for price processes. The volatility of the spot price gives information about the degree of randomness in the returns of the spot price over short intervals of time. Traders are of course very interested in volatilities, since the width of the price distribution is related to the probability of the option expiring in-the-money. This is well-known in financial modeling of derivatives, but there are some peculiarities in energy markets, such as "volatility term structure", that make the modeling process more difficult. The author discusses how to calculate historical, market-implied, and model-implied volatilities, and introduces the (two-dimensional) `discrete volatility matrix', the latter of which is due to the author. Several justifications are given for using a two-dimensional matrix of volatilities rather than a single-volatility term structure. The author does not however give any practical reasons for using this matrix or case studies that would illustrate its advantages. Reference is given to a commercial product that uses it, but it would have been helpful to the reader if the author had given more details on its use in practical everyday trading.
Summary: Not for newcomers
Date: 2003-06-26 -
Comment: I work in the energy products/generation industry and thought this will help explain what the whole energy-risk field is about. I'm still as confused now as I was before I bought the book .. probably because I dont have a strong background in computational finance. This is defintely not for newcomers and is really geared to the quants.
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