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WorldbyFlow for commodities traders and analysts

A commodity is a physical thing that has to move through somewhere, and the somewhere is where the risk lives. WorldbyFlow maps the chain with each stage's visibility tagged honestly, reads the price with its basis and date on every figure, and reads the routes and the calendar around it.

Written for Trades or analyses physical energy and commodity flows.·Runs in the Energy domain

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Where this fits in your week

Trading or analyzing physical flows is a study of structure and timing. The scans here cover both: a supply chain map with chokepoints and the parts the record cannot see, a pricing read with every figure's basis and date, a dated calendar for the bodies that move the market, a driver read, and a movement read on the route from source to offtake.

Lead scan

Supply Chain

3 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

The chain from source to offtake with each stage tagged documented, representative or opaque. The structure and its chokepoints, honestly labeled.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Pricing Read

3 credits

Every price verbatim from a named source with an as-of date and its basis stated. The benchmark, with the provenance attached.

Try it on Henry Hub natural gas · Brent crude · Lithium carbonate

Catalyst Calendar

2 credits

A dated calendar for OPEC, a strait or a basin, each date's basis stated. The events that move the number.

Try it on OPEC · The Strait of Hormuz · The Permian Basin

Market Drivers

4 credits

What is moving the market, with evidence for each driver. The mechanism under the view.

Try it on The oil market · US natural gas · Copper · Lithium

Transport & Offtake

3 credits

A flow read: route, chokepoints, documented capacity, and what the record does not show. Oil through a strait, grain out of a port.

Try it on Oil through the Strait of Hormuz · LNG from Qatar to Asia · Grain out of Black Sea ports · Copper from Chile to China
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Run Supply Chain on a commodity you trade

Read the stage tags. If the opaque tiers are the ones you know are opaque, the map is honest enough to trust on the next one.

3 credits
02

Run Transport and Offtake on the route that matters

Chokepoints and documented capacity. The logistics page under a disruption view.

3 credits
03

Run Catalyst Calendar on the body that moves the market

Scheduled, expected and estimated kept apart. What to have on the calendar.

2 credits
04

Pin the chokepoint to your Watchboard

A closure, a capacity change or a policy date at a chokepoint becomes a watched signal.

Pinning is free; a check costs 2 credits when you ask for one.
The research bill for this path
3 + 3 + 2 = 8 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Copy the read into the desk note as Markdown, or export it as a PDF with every price carrying its basis and date.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Run Supply Chain on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

Start with Supply Chain →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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