Beyond fixing: how to manage your energy position in both directions

Beyond fixing: how to manage your energy position in both directions (Interview)

How do fixing and unfixing work together?

As energy markets swing between prolonged bull and bear trends, often reversing with little warning, the ability to fix a price is only half the picture. Buyers who only know how to fix are left exposed the moment a trend turns, with no way to capture the upside of a falling market or correct a position that no longer fits.

This interview reveals how fixing and unfixing work together as a single, disciplined strategy, not two separate decisions. Merlijn Mertens, E&C's first energy trader and now Product Owner of the trading team, explains what it takes to build unfixing into a strategy for the first time, from the conditions that make it viable to the psychological traps that catch buyers out in both directions.

It explores the frameworks and safeguards behind the decision, including risk profiles, trend fixing and unfixing, and the "red line" conditions that determine when not to unfix, giving energy buyers the tools to manage their position through a full market cycle rather than just one direction of it.

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