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[28 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 2,191 views]
Speculative trading position on accrual accounted asset?

Hello all,
We have several positions of ‘commodity storages’ in our portfolio (oil storage tanks, underground gas storages, coal reserves…). These storages are considered as assets and are valued at a typical average winter/summer commodity spread (buy summer, sell winter). The complete portfolio is accounted using the “accrual” method. Within the trading business these spreads are also referred to as intrinsic value of a storage.
We are considering trading positions on these assets in the future… This implies that traders should be possible to take daily ’speculative’ positions on assets assigned in our physical …