The Simpson/Caputo Group of RBC Dominion Securities
Specialists in Managing Price Risk Using Futures & Futures Options
The Simpson/Caputo Group
With over 60 years of collective futures and options experience, The Simpson/Caputo Group specializes in developing hedging strategies for producers across Canada. Using our signature Six Step Process, we will determine your hedge objectives and provide a strategy to meet your specific needs.
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We want you to feel confident when faced with buying and selling choices in the market. Let us provide you with expert advice on hedging strategies to help mitigate price risk, and work with you to manage your positions. With our knowledge, integrity, and proven expertise in the futures and options market, we help you achieve your marketing goals.
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Meet our team of Commodity Futures Specialists, Associates, and Administrative Staff
Our Six Step Hedging Process:
Step 1: Gather and process market information
On a daily basis, as market news unfolds, we review and summarize commodity market developments and keep our clients informed.
Step 2: Summarize our technical analysis
We identify support and resistance points, pinpoint price levels to initiate positions, and provide target zones where profitable hedges should be lifted.
Step 3: Monitor cash and physical markets while assessing seasonal trends
We then review current trends in the cash and product market, discuss daily cash quotes with U.S. market sources and review current seasonal patterns.
Step 4: Formulate recommendations
With commentary, information and analysis now in one place, we begin to formulate a recommendation.
Step 5: Implement and execute
We proactively contact you with a specific hedging recommendation.
Step 6: Ongoing monitoring and review
We manage all your futures positions, and actively revise and update selling levels and target zones to reflect ongoing futures price movements.
Our Clients
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Cash Crop Producers
Cash crop producers with 1,000 or more acres of grain or oilseed production who are doing forward contracting but looking at other options in their marketing plans.
Livestock Producers
Livestock producers including hog producers with 500 or more sows, or shipping 1,000 or more market hogs per month. Cattle producers with minimum 500 head of cattle.
Grain Elevators
Grain elevators looking for trade execution, or learning how to hedge their inventories.
Food Processor Companies
Food processor companies requiring a hedge against the increasing price of inputs such as corn, wheat and sugar.
Oil and Gas Companies
Oil and gas companies needing to hedge their price risk to the crude oil, heating oil (diesel fuel), and unleaded gas and natural gas markets.
Corporations
Corporations including wholesale fuel dealers and independent gas retailers with a minimum usage of 42,000 gallons monthly.
High-Net-Worth Individuals
Individuals who are seeking direct access to a specific commodity market and/or currency, and wanting Canadian-dollar hedging strategies designed to hedge current risk on US-dollar equity portfolios.
Importers and Exporters
Importers and exporters who wish to manage and hedge currency risk of $500,000 or more per year.
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