Essent Xpress TAKING THE MARKET TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Essent Trading – A History of Innovation
Developing the Gas Business 2 million customers
Zebra Pipeline
EPE Storage LNG Terminal Eemshaven
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Essent Trading – A History of Innovation
Diverse Power Asset Portfolio Coal Gas & Nuclear Bioliquids In oil tanks
Wind Portfolio Solid Biomass
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Essent Trading – A History of Innovation
Prop Trading Expertise
Strong Prop P&L Growth Tradefloor 0-200 in 6 years
#1 Europe Gas Trader 2004 Best Talent from Commodity and Banks
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Essent Trading – A History of Innovation
B2B Solution Provider NS– Largest deal in Benelux Wider Commodities Scope
Komstrom
Merchant Services Range
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Essent Trading – A History of Innovation With Our Strong Asset Position & A History of Trading Performance
IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE MARKET TO THE NEXT LEVEL
EssentXpress
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Welcome to Essent Xpress… Essent Xpress is an online trading system ... Designed to help in trading various products and commodities with partners… Available through our website HTTP://WWW.ESSENTTRADING.COM …
Or directly at ESSENTXPRESS.ESSENTTRADING.COM
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Walkthrough of Essent Xpress
Essent Xpress Trading Floor view
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Emerging Sales Asset Investments Spreads HedgingHedging Markets Different partners have different needs and different trading focus. At Essent, one size does not fit all
Trading Floor Tabs makes it easy to select the trading floor of interest
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Asset Hedging
WHO Tolling Virtual Storage
2. Merchant energy businesses 3. Large utilities 4. Niche IPP’s 5. Aggressive municipals visit the Asset Hedging Floor.
Virtual Transport Retail Lock-in
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WHY 2. Hedge assets for price protection 4. Protect stable cash flows 5. Diversify crosscommodity asset portfolio
Sales Hedging
WHO
Index Linked
2. Sophisticated large I&C companies • B2B aggregators • Progressive municipals visit the Sales Hedging Floor.
Quality Conversion Collars, Caps, Floors
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WHY Hedging sales and supply services to • Protect sales performance • Ensure superior product offerings
Spreads
WHO Spark, Dark, Black Spreads
• Merchant energy businesses • Banks • Commodity Traders visit the Spreads Floor.
Time Spreads Location Spreads API2 v BAFA Rheinschien v HFO
WHY Existing basis positions to be hedged or traded
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Investments
WHO Basket Products
European Wide Indexes
Investment in Wind
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• Banks • Hedge Funds • Financial Service companies • Trading houses visit the Investments Floor.
WHY 2. Hedging across the energy asset class 4. Desiring exposure to a particular part of the value chain 7. Interest in sophisticated structured products tracking price
Emerging Markets
Solid Bio Products
WHO Expanding Energy Companies visit the Investments Floor.
Liquid Bio Products
Bafa Coal
WHY • • •
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Hedging of illiquid products Trading infant markets Supporting new indices
Value Chain filter – allows you to select Upstream, Midstream, Downstream or Wholesale
The value chain filter allows you to focus on the area of the value chain where you need solutions.
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Timeframes allows you to focus on a specific time period where you need solutions.
All tradable products by timeframe
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Single screen view of all markets, with bids and offers displayed side-byside in an easy to read grid format
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Market Activity – allows you to track all your actions and view a log of trades happening on the system giving you an idea where exactly is the market heading
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Main Links – access historical trading data, view/change your preferences
My Markets filter – filters and displays only your bids and offers
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Toolbar – intuitive controls enable you to create,bids and offers and execute trades instantly
Risk Management and Security • EssentXpress can define risk ratings for counterparties assigning buy, sell or view ratings for different commodities • EssentXpress can define security rights for different traders – some traders can create/modify bids and offers, some can only hit existing bids/offers and some can only view bids/offers
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EssentXpress
From Essent Trading TAKE THE MARKET TO THE NEXT LEVEL
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Supplemental Slides
Scenario 1 – Traders create bids/offers
Create a bid or an offer at a right-click of the mouse
Create tab appears in the Transactions area
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Trader can modify, put on hold and cancel bids and offers
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Scenario 2 – Trading with counterparties
Traders of counterparties can accept a bid or an offer at right click of a mouse
Accept tab appears in the Transactions area. Trader has an option to hit/lift partially, completely and build on top of initially traded volume
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Trade flash on screens of all connected users helps highlight market activity
Both the parties involved in the trade notified of the details of the trade completed
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Traders of counterparties can negotiate a bid or an offer at right click of a mouse
Negotiate tab appears in the Transactions area
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Negotiation thread history makes it easy to track price negotiations on the bid or offer
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Traders can view transaction history for details of all trades done
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