For more than a decade, an experienced Arcadia team has handled trading on the futures and forwards markets and, over time, Arcadia has become one of the top five largest players in the paper trading market.

We currently trade approximately 10 million barrels of futures every day, enabling Arcadia to hedge the exposure that arises out of physical trading.

The majority of this business is transacted on the Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE ). Arcadia is a member of The London Clearing House enabling us to clear our own futures business on ICE . In addition, we trade significant volumes of both crude oil and products futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).

Arcadia has been at the cutting edge when it comes to using new tools for investment and hedging in the forwards and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, utilising such contracts for periods as much as five years ahead.

Whether by using Contracts for Differences, inter-regional swaps, margin swaps or grade and time swaps, Arcadia has a proven record of successful hedging and speculation over a broad spectrum of oil derivatives.

With the expansion of Arcadia's physical products to take account of new products, such as trading Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and gasoline, we have similarly broadened our paper trading into associated derivative instruments. Structured expansion into products trading will further enhance our insight onto the factors influencing price movements within the oil market.