A major reason for developing MarketView’s CurveBuilder is that forward curve pricing in the energy industry frequently lacks transparency, such as for thinly-traded hubs or delivery dates, trading the spread between two products, or trading time periods that do not match internal risk assessment periods. Limitations in forward price visibility prohibit profitable trade decisions and prevent risk managers from accurately assessing risk associated with trade decisions.
To address these problems, MarketView’s CurveBuilder includes a robust, customizable rules-based engine to generate forward curves, accompanied by audit trails and process logs to facilitate compliance. The software tool allows…