Financial swaps provide predictable results
May 25, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Financial swaps are risk management tools. When used properly, they are true hedges that provide predictable results for supply purchases.
Read More Settling a financial swap to achieve desired results
May 19, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Mark Rachal explains the process of delivering physical supply to the customer and settling financial swaps to show how the two work together.
Read More Financial swaps enable quick, accurate price quotes
May 11, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Learn how a propane retailer can use a financial swap to provide a fixed price to a customer for months or even years in advance.
Read More Strategies for using financial swaps effectively
May 4, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Retailers use swaps to capture opportunities, turn unknown future prices into knowns and maintain flexibility to adjust positions when conditions change.
Read More How to exploit opportunities in the propane swap market
April 27, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions explores some of the advantages of the propane swap market in price risk management.
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Hedging within the current propane market
December 9, 2019 By Dale Delay
Most readers of this report know Cost Management Solutions is a company that provides support to retailers that want to hedge. Hedging is often misunderstood as to what it is supposed to accomplish.
Read More A Propane Profile: Mark Rachal
October 13, 2017 By LP Gas
“Trader’s Corner” author Mark Rachal discusses financial hedging and propane retailer education.
Read More Selling swaps provides protection against falling prices
May 31, 2016 By Mark Rachal and Dale Delay
As propane retailers, we consider our hard-won customers the only ones interested in buying our propane. We believe…
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