Transacting in commodity markets requires real-time trading solutions that enable traders to instantaneously react to market opportunities. Commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions must also provide rapid deal capture, trader decision support tools and superior market insight (dashboards) for the identification of arbitrage opportunities.  The challenge is finding an integrated CTRM system that meets the various needs across a company, including the ability to measure and report in real-time the complexity (all commodity and derivative types) of a portfolio, maintain curves and forecasts and manage deals (physical and financial) from capture to confirmation to invoice, as well as physical logistics. Allegro’s CTRM software meets each of these challenges on one platform.

• Interactive Trading Environment - Allegro offers decision support capability that leverages a first-of–its-kind Interactive Trading Environment (ITE).  ITE empowers traders with sophisticated tools that can facilitate the identification of arbitrage opportunities, optimize a portfolio in real-time, simulate transactions and automatically execute trade strategies with live feeds, including commodity exchanges (ICE and NYMEX) and pricing sources (LIM and Platts).  Allegro’s comprehensive trading solution includes a rapid deal entry blotter with deal duplication capability, built-in options valuation analytics, asset optimization tools, comprehensive curve management and real-time position updates on user-defined trader dashboards (3D graphical or numeric representation), providing traders everything they need on one screen.
• Advanced Trading Analytics - Allegro offers intuitive views into positions with a customizable executive dashboard featuring drill-down capability (by trader, portfolio, etc), proactive (pre-trade) credit alert capability, real-time (simulation) risk management updates and dynamic reporting capability.  Allegro’s streamlined, highly automated processes for managing risk, price, supply and demand curves allow managers to develop hedging strategies, determine asset value (asset optimization), drill-down to any level of risk or portfolio exposure, and manage physical and financial positions.
• Scheduling and Physical Logistics - Should your business require physical logistics management, Allegro offers the most comprehensive logistics functionality in the ETRM / CTRM space.  Allegro’s integrated Physical Logistics provides scheduling management for all transportation types, including transmission lines, barge, vessel, rail, truck and pipeline, with EBB scheduling automation.

Commodity Trading Components to Enhance ETRM Solutions

• Trade Execution - Provides tools to efficiently capture and confirm physical and financial trades for commodities.
• Trade Strategy - Provides the ability to define trading strategies, which can be made up of existing positions and hypothetical positions, to allow for analysis of different trading scenarios while setting operational goals and limits.