ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Hill & Associates, Inc. and Doyle
Trading Consultants, LLC have released Coal Trading Handbook 2004 -- An
Insider's Guide to Coal Trading and the Coal Industry.
(http://www.coaltradinghandbook.com)
The Coal Trading Handbook combines an exhaustive, no-nonsense analysis of
the US and global coal markets with a comprehensive coverage of coal trading
techniques and risk management strategies. "We created this product for
companies with 'coal capital' at risk: electric utilities, merchant
generators, debt/equity traders, coal miners, energy traders, bankers, energy
analysts, railroads, barge lines and PUC commissioners," co-author Stephen
Doyle, founder of Doyle Trading Consultants, said. "I have been in the coal
business since 1983 as a scheduler, exporter, importer, salesman, buyer,
negotiator, OTC trader and futures trader. Over the years, I have established
a reputation for developing and executing successful trading and hedging
strategies for premier companies such as Ruhrkohle Trading, Integrity
International, Peabody Coaltrade, Vitol/Avista, Sithe Energies and Allegheny
Energy. My outcome was to distill my coal industry experience and my trading
acumen and put it into the Coal Trading Handbook. This is a reference manual
and a trading manual all wrapped up into one."
"By teaming up with Hill & Associates and with special help from the
leading coal and emissions broker, Evolution Markets, we were able to include
proprietary data and analysis unavailable elsewhere. Our goal is that the Coal
Trading Handbook becomes the 'Physician's Desk Reference' of the energy
industry. We provide 330 pages of valuable information on mining techniques,
combustion methods, coal reserves, transportation costs, inventories, mining
companies, utilities, merchant generators, synfuel plants,
importers/exporters, physical characteristics of coal, supply/demand drivers,
price volatility drivers, traditional risk management techniques, OTC
participants, details of standardized OTC products, regulated/unregulated
trading groups, futures trading, the principles of hedging, basis trading,
swaps trading, equity trading, tips for working with OTC brokers, OTC FAQ's,
the fundamentals of options, the use of structured products, how to interpret
forward curves, the function of the back office, the role of the risk manager
and prognostications on the future of coal trading. The Coal Trading Handbook
is packed with useful tables, charts and graphs, such as global steam/coking
coal flows, volatility curves, basis trends, market participants, coal curves,
emission curves, ocean freight curves, energy correlation matrices, option
pay-outs, equity charts, OTC trading volume, regional coal consumption by Nerc
zones, etc."
Hill & Associates is the coal industry's premier consulting firm. Their
contribution to the Coal Trading Handbook can be seen in an unparalleled
primer on the coal industry that will provide every user with a competitive
edge. Evolution Markets LLC, the leading coal and emissions brokerage,
provided essential data through its web-based product, Evo.ID, that resulted
in timely price, basis and volatility curves from the coal and emissions OTC
market.
The Coal Trading Handbook concludes with a fifteen-page chapter entitled
"A Day in the Life of a Coal Trader." This puts the reader in the shoes of an
OTC trader and takes him/her through a minute-by-minute roller coaster of a
trading day. Not only is it a very entertaining chapter, it was specifically
designed to bring many of the concepts covered throughout the handbook into a
real-life setting. A six-page, detailed table of contents, a five-page
Introduction to the Coal Trading Handbook and/or excerpts from twenty-four
chapters can be downloaded from Doyle Trading Consultants' website:
http://www.coaltradinghandbook.com.
Doyle Trading Consultants, LLC provides coal and emissions trading
services to a wide array of energy companies and financial institutions. Mr.
Doyle has been active in domestic and international coal trade since 1983,
working for Ruhrkohle Trading, Integrity International, Peabody, Vitol/Avista,
Sithe and Allegheny. He is a current board member and past president of the
New York Coal Trade Association. Mr. Doyle is a highly effective communicator
and has presented topics on coal and emissions trading at wide array of energy
conferences, training seminars and trading workshops around the world. He is
the director of the one-week Coal Trading Masterclass that will be held in
England (Coaltrans Conferences - May 2004). He received his bachelor's degree
from the University of Colorado and an MBA in International Management from
Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management. Mr.
Doyle works and lives in Glade Park, Colorado and has a branch office in New
York, NY.
Contact Information:
Stephen J. Doyle, President
Doyle Trading Consultants, LLC
(970) 256 1194
btubaron@aol.com
http://www.doyletradingconsultants.com
SOURCE Hill & Associates, Inc.; Doyle Trading Consultants, LLC
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Related links:
http://www.hillandassoc.com
http://www.doyletradingconsultants.com
http://www.coaltradinghandbook.com
CONTACT:
Stephen J. Doyle, President of Doyle Trading
Consultants, LLC, +1-970-256-1194, or btubaron@aol.com
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