Meet Your Instructor

You’ll learn from one of the most dynamic and well-respected energy traders and hedge advisors, Elaine Levin.

A 19-time course instructor, she also has successfully managed the books of some of the industry’s largest fuel buyers. You’ll benefit from her impressive track record for controlling costs by explaining in plain language exactly how to take advantage of today’s risk management tools.

Advance the way you buy, sell, market and trade gasoline and diesel fuel in just 3 days!

This OPIS Executive Education Series course has graduated hundreds of buyers and sellers of refined products to meet the dynamic demand of fuel managers. Now is your chance to join them. In this hands-on executive training you’ll learn:

• Both basic and advanced hedging strategies to manage your gasoline and diesel risk.
• How to lock in low prices and use them to your advantage.
• How to counter the impact of sudden and unexpected price hikes.
• The 3 critical hedging strategies that will protect your cash flow.
• How published benchmarks let you strategically participate in the market’s downside with your physical purchases.
• The energy market’s seasonal trends and how to use them to your competitive advantage.
• Why price caps are back and how to benefit from a falling market but still protect your fuel budget if prices rise.
• How marketers are using futures to protect retail gasoline and diesel margins.
• Strategies that can protect your inventory costs in a plummeting market.
• A full understanding of basis risk and how to control it by using new NYMEX Clearport instruments.
• The impact of international unrest on the spot, rack and retail markets.
• Plus gain new business relationships you can use immediately.