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Managing lumber price risk

Our extensive lumber trading experience helps you enhance hedging strategies and manage margins.

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Risk management

Protect your margins and enable more significant strategic planning. The StoneX Forest Products Team offers customized solutions to successfully manage risks impacting the supply chain, from harvesting through end-use production.

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Market Intelligence

We provide our clients with objective forward curves, actionable insights, and customized daily, weekly and monthly market reports.

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Clearing and execution

Our team of registered affiliate futures brokers provides efficient, real-time execution and direct access to the forest products futures markets in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil, and many other major exchanges.

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OTC solutions

StoneX over-the-counter (OTC) products are tailored to meet the specialized needs of the forest products market for commercial hedgers, including fixed for floating and month-average liquidations that replicate physical pricing terms.

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Physical commodities

StoneX’s global physical commodities team combines decades of deep market experience and insightful risk management analysis to help clients increase profitability. Make our team part of your team.

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Derivatives market

Gain access to more than 36 derivative markets worldwide across spot trading, crypto futures, interest rates, currencies, futures, options and more. Trade what, when and how you want with StoneX.

Our clients

Our Forest Products Group is dedicated to providing educational and advisory services to help clients fully understand risk and the risk management process. Based on your individual needs and risk tolerance, we can design and implement a specific program that reflects your objectives.

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Why StoneX?

StoneX is a Fortune 50 company that provides clients with the solutions, tools and platforms necessary to meet budgets, stabilize input prices and secure margins. Our extensive databases and detailed quantitative analyses on your sales and purchases allow us to provide measurable bottom-line results.

Our lumber specialists can help mitigate exposure to volatile energy prices, fuel surcharges and foreign exchange rates.

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Solutions for lumber manufacturers

The StoneX Lumber Team can help you understand how to integrate futures, options and other innovative tools into your marketing structure.

Reduce volatility associated with fluctuating lumber commodity prices.

Access a variety of tools to fix pricing for an extended period or to provide price floors.

Mitigate exposure to diesel, natural gas, foreign exchange and other price risks.

Solutions for lumber end users

We help lumber buyers, dealers, home builders and truss manufacturers effectively manage lumber price volatility.

Protect the value of physical inventories using futures, options and other innovative tools.

Possible opportunities to provide long-term fixed price protection to offset risks against forward sold jobs.

Proprietary databases include cash and futures pricing spanning decades.

Implement complex strategies such as basis trading, spreading and delivery/EFP transactions.

Solutions for lumber wholesalers and distributors

We can enhance competitiveness by protecting the value of lumber inventories or identifying margin enhancement opportunities.

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Speak to our sales team

Talk to a StoneX forest industry professional today to explore your options. Our Lumber Team is ready to assist you with your business needs.

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StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.

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October

8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar

Webinars

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South America

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Language: Português Brasileiro

StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.

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October

Sugar Breakfast StoneX

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Language: Português Brasileiro

A strategic event that brings together StoneX risk management consultants to foster networking, updates, and planning.

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StoneX: We open markets

Our market expertise, advanced platforms, global reach, culture of full transparency and commitment to our clients’ success all set us apart in the financial marketplace.

Reach

With access to 40+ derivatives exchanges, 180+ foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and numerous bi-lateral liquidity venues, StoneX’s digital network and deep relationships can take clients anywhere they want to go.

Transparency

As a publicly traded company meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance in the markets we serve; our financials and record of accomplishment are matters of public record. StoneX’s commitment to “doing the right thing over the easy thing” sets us apart in the industry and helps us build respect, client trust and new partnerships.

Expertise

From our proprietary Market Intelligence platform, to “boots on the ground” expertise from award-winning traders and professionals, we connect our clients directly to actionable insights they can use to make more informed decisions and achieve their goals in the global markets.

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StoneX Securities Co., Ltd. (“SSJ”) (Co. Reg. No 010401047199) is regulated by the Japanese Financial Services Agency as a Type-I Financial Instruments Business Operator (Kanto Local Finance Bureau (FIBO)No.291’), is a member of the Financial Futures Association of Japan for dealing and brokering FX and FX Option transactions, and is a member of the Japan Securities Dealers Association for dealing and brokering stock indices and option transactions.