Agricultural Derivatives Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for trading and hedging agricultural derivatives, focusing on maize and soybean markets using CME futures and options. Learners will master contract specifications, margining, volatility analysis, and strategy design to effectively manage price risks in agriculture.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Agricultural Derivatives Course provides practical skills to analyse maize and soybean markets, interpret futures and options quotes, and understand volatility. Learn contract specs, margining, and option structures, then design and compare hedging strategies with clear payoff, breakeven, and risk metrics. By the end, you can build efficient, data-driven programmes to manage agricultural price exposure with confidence.
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Develop skills
- Design hedging programmes: build clear, client-ready futures and options plans.
- Trade CME maize and soybean derivatives: apply contract specs, margin, and ticks.
- Calculate hedge sizes: convert bushel exposure into precise futures positions.
- Structure options hedges: use calls, puts, and collars to cap agricultural costs.
- Analyse ag market data: read quotes, option chains, and volatility for decisions.
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