Perspective: Morning Commentary for December 8
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Managing wheat price risk
Let seasoned StoneX professionals design and deliver a comprehensive suite of risk management solutions to address your business needs and achieve your goals.
Less volatility. More opportunity.
At every stage of the wheat production chain, market participants face a risk of adverse price movements caused by market vagaries and fluctuations in supply and demand. Wheat futures and options provide a means to manage this risk and take advantage of potential profit opportunities.
Wheat hedging
We design and execute hedging programs built on proven commodity risk management principles for wheat producers, consumers and merchandisers, and are not speculatively oriented. Futures and options activities are used to assist grain marketing by providing opportunities to retain margins and manage risk.
StoneHedge® Merchandising System
Streamline origination. Automate offers. Simplify hedging. Our web-based merchandising system allows commercial grain customers to automate hedging and incorporate cash bids, stream quotes, offer/order initiation and manage hedges through one easy-to-use platform.
OTC products
Over-the-counter (OTC) products deliver benefits like exchange-traded futures and options. Still, they can offer customizable terms (e.g., non-standard quantities, strike prices, expiration dates, etc.) that align more closely with your unique hedging needs.
Commodity risk management
Our award-winning consultants understand both the futures and the physical markets. To limit risk and uncertainty and improve margins and bottom-line results, we will construct a risk-management program tailored to your company's needs, then work closely with you to execute it.
Managed futures
When you become a StoneX client, your business becomes our business. Our experienced teams know the market through long-established, working relationships with global growers, producers, originators and co-ops. We use statistical research to find the right combination of managers for your portfolio and provide reports to assist you in evaluating their performance daily.
Technology & clearing
We work with investors, trading advisors, custodians, portfolio accounting groups, and fund administrators to provide customized reports and files for all activity, open positions, and money balances. Dedicated Customer Service groups allow 24-hour account access via our MyStoneX web-based portal.
Trade Allocation
A comprehensive module for auto-allocation that offers the flexibility to break down trades for both internal accounts and outside firms.
Automated Average Price System
Allows easier, more equitable distribution of trades among your customers on execution at multiple prices.
My.StoneX.com portal
Our web-based system that provides clients an easy to interact with StoneX around the clock.
Physically traded products
StoneX offers clients financing and trade facilitation to provide working capital for commodity inventory and hedge margin. Our physical trades provide forward pricing and supply chain management services, allowing clients to manage their commodity commerce without tying up valuable resources.
Inventory financing
We offer inventory sales/repurchase, transactional finance, processing, and tolling arrangements for clients. We can also provide financing that is incremental to your established banking relationships. We aim to help clients optimize their fixed assets, such as storage facilities, terminals, pipelines, and processing facilities.
Specialized foreign exchange
Our capacity includes foreign exchange services to international aid and development organizations, UN agencies, NGOs, religious entities, governmental agencies, multinational corporations, and financial institutions in over 175 countries, with expertise in exotic currency payments and payments to the developing world.
Why StoneX?
StoneX risk management consultants have in-depth expertise in the supply-and-demand situation for specific commodities, access to our extensive proprietary database and detailed historical knowledge, and substantial experience creating and using innovative risk-management tools.
We've spent decades developing and designing financial solutions, tools, and platforms to help companies manage risk, meet budget restrictions and reduce market volatility. Let our specialist help you grow your bottom line.
Our clients
Our Grains and Oilseeds Group is here to help educate and provide the tools and services necessary to understand risk and the risk management process. Based on your needs and risk tolerance, we will design a program that reflects your objectives.
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Corporations & cooperativesWe work with companies worldwide that originate and process wheat, wheat, and soybeans; grow or process sugar, coffee, dairy, lumber, and cotton; and produce energy products from crude oil or ethanol. We provide risk management, hedging, and complete marketing services to traders, processors, manufacturers' elevators, and end-users. -
Food & beverage industryAll food and beverage companies face commodity price risk, but each requires unique solutions. We leverage extensive market access and deep expertise to help food processors, manufacturers, and consumer packaged goods companies overcome those risks. -
Wheat producersAt StoneX, wheat producers gain access to global reach, local expertise, grain marketing strategies, and powerful margin-tracking tools. As one of the largest U.S.-based grain brokerage firms, we partnerwith producers on five continents to monitor market fluctuations and help you capitalize on all possible opportunities.
Service solutions
From global market access to liquidity StoneX has a solution.
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Commodity risk productsMitigate your exposure to commodity price volatility with StoneX's strategic risk products. -
Physical commoditiesOur global physical commodities team combines deep market expertise and insightful risk management analysis to help clients increase profitability. -
OTC tradingTake advantage of StoneX's OTC trading expertise for more customized hedging options. -
Derivatives marketNavigate the derivatives market confidently with StoneX's vast expertise.
BOTG: Wheat & Soybeans (US)
Join us in Ohio, where agriculture isn't just an occupation; it's a way of life for StoneX Regional Director Bailey Elchinger as she navigates the fields that have shaped her family for generations, turning her agricultural insights into your strategic advantage in commodity markets.
Join us in Ohio, where agriculture isn't just an occupation; it's a way of life for StoneX Regional Director Bailey Elchinger as she navigates the fields that have shaped her family for generations, turning her agricultural insights into your strategic advantage in commodity markets.
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FAQs
What are wheat commodities?
Wheat futures are exchange-traded commodities contracts for one of the most widely grown domestic crops. Wheat is used to produce flour and wheat by-products are used in animal and livestock feeds.
Why is wheat traded as a commodity?
Wheat is one of the most important food crops used worldwide for thousands of years. It is one of the most widely grown agricultural commodities on a per-volume basis. It is a hearty grain, growing and thriving in many different environments.
What are the types of wheat available for trade?
The seven classes of wheat grown domestically are hard red winter, hard red spring, soft red winter, soft white, hard white winter, hard white spring and durum.
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The trading of commodities and derivatives such as futures, options, and swaps involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. Advisory services as well as the trading of futures and options is available through various subsidiaries of StoneX Group Inc. including but not limited to the FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc. Public Disclosures for the FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc. The trading of over-the-counter products or swaps is available through subsidiary StoneX Markets LLC to individuals or firms who qualify under CFTC rules as an eligible contract participant. Please click here for the full disclaimer.