The World Bank's Cotton Price Risk Management Course

This course aims to provide practitioners with concepts, tools, and strategies for managing  price risk within a cottontrading enterprise. 

The course provides a step-by-step guide for understanding and analyzing price risk and putting in place systems and practices (using physical and financial instruments) for managing price risk for a cotton trading cooperative or commercial business.

Modules

• Module 1: Introduction
• Module 2: Risk Assessment: Quantifying & Qualifying Risk
• Module 3: Price Risk Management for Traders
• Module 4: Strategies Through Physical Trading: Price Fixing Strategies
• Module 5: Financial Instruments Traded on the Commodity Exchange
• Module 5A: Financial Instruments Traded on the Commodity Exchange: Thinking in Two Markets
• Module 5B: Financial Instruments: Futures and Options
• Module 5C :The Cotton Futures Market
• Module 5D: Futures Contracts
• Module 5E: Options Contracts
• Module 5F: Hedging with Futures and Options: Risks