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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Electricity 50 Demanding Unstorable and settled half-hourly: the only commodity whose price regularly turns negative, in a wholesale market closed to individuals.
  • Shipping freight 66 Extreme Violent cycles in a perishable service, traded by brokers and hedged with index-settled derivatives.
  Electricity Shipping freight
Exit difficulty 2 3
Volatility 5 5
Leverage 3 4
Carry cost 1 2
Fraud risk 1 2
Protection gap 2 3
Barrier to entry 5 5
Expertise needed 5 5
Difficulty 50 Demanding 66 Extreme
In a sentence The only major commodity that must be produced and consumed in the same instant, which is why its price can go negative on a windy Sunday.The cost of moving a cargo across an ocean — a market with no storage, brutal cycles, and an index published daily from London since 1985.
Unit Megawatt-hour, in half-hourly settlement periods Dollars per day (time charter) or per tonne (voyage)
Smallest realistic trade Wholesale blocks; retail via supplier tariff A voyage charter; derivatives in lots of days
Settlement Physical delivery in the settlement period On performance of the voyage; FFAs settle against index averages

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