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    April 24, 2014

    Hot Rolled Futures: Now What?

    Written by Andre Marshall

    The following is an analysis of trading over the past week in the financial markets, especially in the hot rolled coil derivatives (futures) and busheling scrap futures markets. This article was written by Andre Marshall, CEO of Crunchrisk, LLC and the instructor for the Steel Market Update Managing Price Risk series including our newest addition: Managing Price Risk II: Strategies & Execution which will begin taking registrations for tomorrow. Dates are June 24 & 25, 2014 in Chicago. More details will be on our website on Friday, April 25th. By the way, if any of the article below is gibberish to you then you are a candidate for our Managing Price Risk I workshop. If you understand most of it and now you want to learn how to incorporate it into your business, you are a candidate for our Managing Price Risk II: Strategies & Execution workshop.

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