 The Freedom® line of managed programs provides a solution for customers who understand the need to diversify their marketing plan and want to leverage a skilled team of professional risk managers to make hedging decisions. The Freedom Team has developed strategies for each of our managed programs that are optimized under certain market conditions. The following table, along with the Freedom Team's definition of market conditions, was created as a reference tool when choosing programs for your risk management plan.
Decision Rule Contracts (DRCs) are powered by e-Markets, Inc.  The Freedom Trader Suite of managed marketing programs (Freedom Trader, Freedom X-Tra and Freedom Bin) is suite of products a fully managed by a professional committee with over 100 years of market hedging experience (with an additional 60 years of experience new this year!). Over the past 13 crop years, 11 have seen futures prices either grind higher, grind lower, stay range bound or experience big declines. Given this majority, the Freedom Team has developed the hedge strategies and market analysis to optimize your hedge price in these market conditions. 
[available for corn and soybeans] Our leading program, Freedom Trader is actively managed by a team of commodity risk management specialists. The Andersons team looks at a variety of fundamental and technical factors to manage pricing decisions. Freedom Trader offers a no-nonsense approach to marketing your corn and beans. It's a smart choice for a sound, well-rounded portfolio.
[available for corn and soybeans] Formerly known as X-Trader, Freedom X-Tra goes the extra mile with a longer pricing window. The specialized plan features an x-tended time period to leverage market fluctuations and volatility in order to better capture pricing opportunities. Let time work for you by adding this two-year program to your portfolio.
*A performance fee will be assessed if the final price is in the top 33% of the pricing window. A second fee will be assessed if the final price is in the top 10% of the pricing window. 
[available for corn] Formerly known as Bin Trader, Freedom Bin is specially designed for the pricing of stored bushels, rather than bushels that are moved at harvest. This program provides further diversification of pricing opportunities in your risk management plan.
*A performance fee will be assessed if the final price is in the top 33% of the pricing window. A second fee will be assessed if the final price is in the top 10% of the pricing window. 
[available for corn and soybeans] Freedom Max, new this year, is a fully managed product by the same professional committee that manages the Freedom Trader suite. The differentiation for Freedom Max is the market conditions for which the program is optimized. The Freedom Team employs a different set of hedge strategies with the same thorough market analysis that maximize hedge price in environments that either grind higher or experience big rallies (such as 2012) and preserve some downside risk in range bound and grind lower markets.
*A performance fee will be assessed if the final price is in the top 33% of the pricing window. A second fee will be assessed if the final price is in the top 10% of the pricing window. 
[available for corn and soybeans] Freedom Tech uses back tested sell signals based on a momentum technical indicator. New this year, we've added the ability to buy a portion of our hedges back if the same indicator provides a buy signal. Freedom Tech combines technical indicators with professional implementation for a balanced approach.
[available for corn] This marketing tool offers over ten years of proven performance. A third party team of risk management professionals manages the pricing decisions for Market Pros.
The Freedom® Pricing Tool is a suite of products sold by The Andersons, Inc. They are not advisory tools.
Sellers are advised to use discretion in making cash grain marketing and pricing decisions. The Andersons is a buyer of cash grain forward contracts which utilize Freedom® Pricing Tools. Freedom Pricing Tools are products of The Andersons, Inc. and its affiliates ("Andersons"), and are not advisory tools. The Andersons does not make any representations or warranties, nor guarantees the performance of the Freedom Pricing Tools. The Andersons® and Freedom® Pricing Tools are registered trademarks and Pro ProspectorSM, Peak ProSM, Freedom TraderSM, Freedom BinSM, Freedom X-TraSM, Freedom MaxSM, and Freedom TechSM are service marks of The Andersons, Inc. Market Pros® is a registered trademark of Cargill, Inc. |
