Insignia Consultants

We provide advisory services and hedging strategies to importers and physical traders of all metals. Our services include the metal advisory as well as the Foreign Exchange advisory. We also advise our clients when and where to hedge there physical stocks.

We offer broking services both online and offline for the following exchanges:

• MCX
• NCDEX
• BSE
• NSE

We provide Commodity and Foreign Exchange reports and trading calls on our websites www.insigniaconsultants.in & www.insigniaindia.com . We also provide live commodity and forex news as well as prices on our above websites.

• Technical reports
• Live Trading Calls
• Live News
• Comex Mcx Arbitrage
• Gold Costing
• Silver Costing

Overnight & Asian market summary.

Daily Technical Analysis:

(1) MCX Metals and Energies 

(2) Comex Gold and Silver & Copper

(3) Nymex  Crude oil and Natural Gas futures

(4) LME base metals report

(5) Foreign Exchange markets,

Mailed before 9:30 am IST, so that traders have ample time for strategizing. These are sent to our clients via Email or Fax.

Reports we offer are:

• Daily Reports.
• Mid Day Reports
• Weekly Reports
• Monthly Reports
• Quarterly Reports
• Annual / Yearly Reports

Exporters and importers are exposed to foreign exchange rate risk as well as interest rate risk. Between March 2007 and October 2007 US – Dollar Indian rupee gained from 43.60 to 39.20. The reverse happened between February, 2008 to September 2008 where the US dollar – Indian rupee depreciated from 39.70 to 45.70. Currency risk is needed for anyone who has an exposure to international markets (not just exporters and importers). The main motive of hedging is not profit motive but to ensure that currency fluctuations does not erode normal margin of profit.

BSE Sensex crashed over thirty percent between January 2008 and May 2008 (after a five year bull run). Retail investors were crying foul as they saw their capital getting eroded. They never used trailing stop losses as they believed that the Indian stock markets had defied gravity. We had advised our clients to exit their short term investments (in equities) by the first week of January in the month of December, 2007.

In our view most of the retail investors investor invest in four major ways (A) Equities (B) Mutual funds (C) government bonds and tax saving schemes (D) Real estate. Our experience shows that an equity trader will invest mostly in equities and mutual funds while a real estate investors will invest mostly in real estate. They do no have a balanced portfolio.

Very few investors cashed in on the commodity bull run from January 2007 to mid July  2008. In January 2007 crude oil was trading at $50 a barrel and in July 2008 has risen at $147 a barrel. That’s a one hundred and nine four percent gain in one and half years.

We help individual investors to develop a diversified portfolio based on the risk appetite and tenure of investment.

It’s a highly competitive world and every company tries to save on every type of cost. Interest rates in India are one of the highest in the world among the emerging nations. However through the foreign exchange route (external commercial borrowing, FCNR(B), foreign exchange options etc), cost can be saved.

If the key component cost consists of metals then metals hedging strategy can be formulated accordingly.

Sometimes there are idle surplus funds available with the companies. These funds generate zero interest when left idle. We help companies deploy idle funds in such a way so that are able to generate some return on their idle funds.

We advise our clients on which Life Insurance schemes are best for them as per their needs. We also provide detailed information about such plans including all the charges in detail.

We provide live prices of all exchanges on PC or MOBILE. We offer web based solutions as well as softwares with or without charting along with integrated live news and Excel Compatibility for Live Costing and Arbitrage.

We provide Comex and Mcx  and Currencies trading calls as well as key Data and news on the Yahoo messenger. We also provide 15 hours live support via Yahoo messenger on every working day. This is the fastest means of communication between us and our clients.

We provide intraday as well as positional trading calls on all metals and energies in MCX and COMEX via SMS.

• Trading Calls
• News
• Key Data

We advice jewellers on 

(A) When to buy gold, silver and platinum on intra day basis as well as on weekly, monthly or quarterly basis. For example the average daily requirement of gold jewellery manufacturer is 15 kilograms. Gold prices fluctuate 1% to 3% on a intra basis. We tell jewellers when to buy the gold.

(B) Determine inventory levels. Between September 2007 and July 2008 gold prices rose from Rs.9000 per ten grams to Rs.13700 per ten grams. Let’s suppose a jeweller keeps an average 15 kilograms as inventory. At lower prices average gold inventory can be increased from 15 kilograms to 25 kilograms whereas at higher prices (say Rs.13000 per ten grams) average gold inventory can be reduced from 15 kilograms to 10 kilograms.