Opportunities for Trading Members

1. Arbitration Strategies

• Moscow Exchange raw sugar futures – Raw sugar # 11 (traded on ICE)
• Moscow Exchange raw sugar futures – Deliverable forward on sugar at Moscow Exchange

2. Investment strategies

• Long-term and medium-term investment strategies based on market data (production volume forecast, supply and demand on the raw materials market)
• Short-term trading strategies associated with high volatility (including intraday) of the underlying asset

3. Hedging strategies

• The buyer of raw sugar hedges against growing prices
• The raw sugar supplier hedges against falling prices by fixing the price with futures

4. Capital Management companies

• Investment portfolio diversification by including cash-settled raw sugar futures