Settling a financial swap to achieve desired results
May 19, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Mark Rachal explains the process of delivering physical supply to the customer and settling financial swaps to show how the two work together.
Read More Financial swaps enable quick, accurate price quotes
May 11, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Learn how a propane retailer can use a financial swap to provide a fixed price to a customer for months or even years in advance.
Read More Strategies for using financial swaps effectively
May 4, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Retailers use swaps to capture opportunities, turn unknown future prices into knowns and maintain flexibility to adjust positions when conditions change.
Read More How to exploit opportunities in the propane swap market
April 27, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions explores some of the advantages of the propane swap market in price risk management.
Read More Establish buying criteria to identify opportunities
April 20, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Retailers that evaluate market conditions and establish buying criteria based on that evaluation may find that they captured the lowest price of the year.
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Winter 2020-21: Lessons to learn about supply and pricing
April 14, 2021 By LP Gas
Cost Management Solutions’ Mark Rachal discusses the heating season of 2020-21, highlighting factors that led to upward pressure on propane pricing.
Read More Retailers should prepare for lower propane imports
April 13, 2021 By Mark Rachal
U.S. retailers that have received propane imports by rail from Canada may find product harder to come by and may need to consider other sources.
Read More The logic behind managing propane price risk
April 6, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Propane retailers should use all of the market knowledge and risk management tools available to lower supply cost, says Mark Rachal of CMS.
Read More Caution warranted for buying next-winter propane
March 30, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Two propane supply trends could warrant some caution about buying propane for next winter, says Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions.
Read More Consider these reasons to buy propane for next winter
March 24, 2021 By Mark Rachal
Biting off a little 80-cent propane for next winter might not taste as bitter as we imagine, says Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions.
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