ARGUS International Coal Forward Curves

The Argus International Coal Forward Curves service is a powerful, independent market valuation tool used to support investment, risk management and trading decisions across all key coal markets.

Built using unbiased, industry-specific methodologies, the service provides a reliable rolling 60-month forward curves for Argus coal benchmark prices, broken down by month, quarter and calendar block, delivered daily.

You can trust Argus' forward curves to provide deep market insights and data to allow precision in your risk management and bottom line.

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Key features

• Daily assessments provided in monthly granularity, calendars and quarters
• 60 forward months, fixed price and mid-points provided
• Independent and transparent market-appropriate methodology
• Your choice of delivery options: Data feed, our third-party partners, Excel add-in or email

How clients use our data

We provide a proven, reliable tool for analytical and risk-management processes, including:

• Hedging and trading decisions
• Independent evaluations
• Mark-to-market (MTM) validation
• Value-at-risk (VaR)
• Potential future exposure (PFE)
• Risk disaggregation
• In-house forward positions validation

Customers that benefit

The Argus International Coal Forward Curves service is essential for anyone exposed to coal or power markets. Below are examples of how some clients use this service:

• Risk managers use our forward curves data for unbiased, third-party curve validation against counterparties and internal valuations.
• Traders rely on our extensive historical analysis to determine locational and temporal spread relationships and use prior-day curves on a daily basis as a reference when entering the market the following morning.
• The service is also used by risk analysts, market analysts, trade analysts and pricing analysts.

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