Nanhua Futures(SH:603093) Nan Hua Qi Huo·2025-12-22 01:53Group 1: Investment Rating - No investment rating information provided in the report Group 2: Core Views - The urea market is within the range of fundamentals and policies. In the short term, its downside space is strongly supported, but there is also pressure on the upside. It is expected to show a volatile trend [3]. - The short - term domestic urea market is weak and stalemated. The weekend domestic urea market continued to be firm and rising, but the mid - to - long - term trend is under pressure, and the 1 - 5 month spread is in a reverse arbitrage pattern [10][18][19]. - The overall urea market is expected to be volatile, with a possible narrow rebound followed by a stalemate, and the bottom range may continue to rise [16]. Group 3: Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: Core Contradictions and Strategy Recommendations 1.1 Core Contradictions - The change in phosphate fertilizer policy suppresses the speculative nature of the fertilizer sector, weakening the spot trading of urea. The high daily production of urea under policy support and profit repair exerts significant pressure on prices, but the export policy adjustment weakens the downward price drive. The short - term domestic urea market is weak, but the continuous destocking of explicit inventory supports prices [3]. - Regarding futures trading, although new delivery warehouses are added, the cheapest deliverable goods are still from Henan and Shandong. Considering the disappearance of the export expectation for the 01 contract, a reverse arbitrage strategy is adopted for the 1 - 5 month spread. The 01 contract still has a premium due to the autumn fertilizer expectation [5]. 1.2 Trading - type Strategy Recommendations - Trend Judgment: Urea is expected to fluctuate weakly. - Price Range: UR2601 is expected to trade between 1550 - 1750 yuan/ton. - Strategy Suggestions: Short positions are recommended when the price is above 1750 yuan/ton, and a reverse arbitrage is recommended for the 1 - 5 month spread when it is above - 10 [12]. - Basis, Month - spread and Hedging Arbitrage Strategy Suggestions: The 11, 12, and 01 contracts have a weak unilateral trend, while the 02, 03, 04, and 05 contracts are strong with peak - season demand expectations. The 01 contract has an upper pressure range of 1710 - 1720 yuan/ton and a lower static support range of 1550 - 1620 yuan/ton. It is recommended to short at high prices and conduct a reverse arbitrage for the 1 - 5 month spread. No hedging arbitrage strategy is provided [13][14]. Chapter 2: This Week's Important Information and Next Week's Key Events 2.1 This Week's Important Information - Positive Information: The fourth quarter is the winter storage period for the fertilizer industry, and the relatively low price may attract spontaneous reserves. India's NFL issued a new urea import tender, intending to purchase 1.5 million tons [15]. - Negative Information: The current domestic daily urea production is 208,100 tons. After the maintenance of some plants in Shandong and Jiangsu, and the expected concentrated maintenance of some gas - based urea plants in Inner Mongolia and Sichuan, the domestic daily urea production is expected to decline significantly to around 200,000 tons [15]. 2.2 Next Week's Key Events - China's urea production is expected to reach around 1.34 million tons next week, an increase from this week. There are no plans for plant shutdowns, and 5 - 6 plants may resume production, increasing the probability of production growth [17]. Chapter 3: Disk Interpretation 3.1 Price - Volume and Capital Interpretation - The domestic urea market continued to rise over the weekend, with a price increase of 10 - 40 yuan/ton. The fourth batch of urea export quotas and the new Indian tender boosted market sentiment, but mid - to - downstream resistance emerged. The short - term market is still strong [18]. - The weak domestic demand is the main contradiction. It is expected that the increase in exports cannot make up for the weakening domestic demand, so the medium - term trend is under pressure, and the 1 - 5 month spread of urea is in a reverse arbitrage pattern [19]. 3.2 Industry Hedging Suggestions - Price Range Forecast: The price range of urea is predicted to be 1650 - 1950 yuan/ton, with a current volatility of 27.16% and a historical percentile of 62.1% over three years. - Hedging Strategies: - Inventory Management: For enterprises with high finished - product inventory, shorting urea futures, buying put options, and selling call options are recommended to lock in profits and reduce costs. - Procurement Management: For enterprises with low procurement inventory, buying urea futures, selling put options are recommended to lock in procurement costs and reduce expenses [24]. Chapter 4: Valuation and Profit Analysis 4.1 Upstream Profit Tracking of the Industrial Chain - The report presents the seasonal trends of the weekly fixed - bed production cost, natural - gas production cost, water - coal slurry gasification profit, and fixed - bed production profit of urea [27][30][33]. 4.2 Upstream Production Rate Tracking - The report shows the seasonal trends of the daily urea production, weekly production capacity utilization rate, coal - based production capacity utilization rate, and natural - gas - based production capacity utilization rate [36][37]. 4.3 Upstream Inventory Tracking - The report provides the seasonal trends of China's weekly urea enterprise inventory, port inventory, Guangdong and Guangxi inventory, and the combined port and inland inventory [39][41][43]. 4.4 Downstream Price and Profit Tracking - The report presents the seasonal trends of the weekly production capacity utilization rate and inventory of compound fertilizers, the production profit, production capacity utilization rate, market price, and weekly output of melamine, as well as the market prices of compound fertilizers in different regions and the daily market price of synthetic ammonia in Henan [45][48][52][58][65]. 4.5 Spot Production and Sales Tracking - The report shows the seasonal trends of the average production and sales of urea and the production and sales of urea in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, and East China [67][69].