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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Shipping freight 66 Extreme Violent cycles in a perishable service, traded by brokers and hedged with index-settled derivatives.
  • Cocoa 63 Extreme Concentrated supply and a thin deliverable float: the squeeze-prone shape of a market with nowhere for new supply to come from.
  Shipping freight Cocoa
Exit difficulty 3 3
Volatility 5 5
Leverage 4 4
Carry cost 2 3
Fraud risk 2 2
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 5 4
Expertise needed 5 4
Difficulty 66 Extreme 63 Extreme
In a sentence 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.Grown almost entirely in West Africa by smallholders paid a fixed farmgate price, and subject to the most extreme commodity squeeze of recent years.
Unit Dollars per day (time charter) or per tonne (voyage) Metric tonne
Smallest realistic trade A voyage charter; derivatives in lots of days London contract of 10 tonnes
Settlement On performance of the voyage; FFAs settle against index averages Physical delivery against graded stocks

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