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FIN 440

Commodities Analytics and Trading

3 units

Fall 2026

Readings

  • Pirrong, C. (2014). The Economics of Commodity Trading Firms. Free download, no subscription or login required. The PDF is distributed with the course material and is also hosted at bauer.uh.edu
    required
  • Bouchouev, I. (2023). Virtual Barrels: Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market. Springer
    required
Fall 2022

Topics

  • Commodity markets
  • R and data wrangling
  • Pricing
  • Supply and demand models
  • Trading analytics
  • Quantitative trading
  • Trading psychology

Readings

  • Chester Ismay and Patrick C. Kennedy. Getting Used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown (free online book).
    required
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