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.
Risk management
Market Intelligence

We provide our clients with objective forward curves, actionable insights, and customized daily, weekly and monthly market reports.
Market Intelligence
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.
Clearing and execution
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.
OTC solutions
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.
Physical trading
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.
Derivatives market

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 100 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.

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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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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FAQ

How do I trade lumber futures?

Lumber traders utilize lumber futures contracts as a means to potentially profit from price movements. Lumber prices can change at any point during the distribution chain, so a futures contract allows a company to lock in a price and hedge against their risk exposure.

What are lumber futures?

Lumber futures are financial derivatives contracts used to buy and sell a certain amount of timber. Two classes of lumber commodities are hardwood and softwood lumber.

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