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Commodity Market Brief
v1Sample coverage, period return, 21-day realized volatility with its percentile, and the worst drawdown in the window — from the roll-safe continuous front-month series.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“How has WTI behaved over the last year, and how volatile is it against its own history?”
LimitationsDescribes the price series only — no external drivers, no news, no forecast. Realized volatility is withheld below 30 observations rather than estimated.
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Futures Curve Diagnosis
v1Curve shape (contango, backwardation or flat), the front contract and its price, the front-to-next spread, the annualised roll yield, and the move against the previous session.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“Is the Brent curve in contango or backwardation today, and how did it move overnight?”
LimitationsA market with fewer than two live contracts has no defined shape and the skill will say so rather than infer one. Calendar (contract-month) spreads beyond front-to-next are not supported.
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Volatility and Regime Analysis
v1Yang-Zhang realized volatility with its percentile, plus a two-state variance regime model: per-regime volatility, transition probabilities, expected durations and the current regime.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“Is natural gas in a high-volatility regime right now, and how long do those regimes usually last?”
LimitationsThe regime model is withheld below 100 returns and realized volatility below 30 observations. It is a description of past variance, not a forecast of the next move.
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Seasonality Study
v1Log returns bucketed by calendar month over the full available history, with per-bucket counts and a one-way ANOVA F-test — where "not statistically significant" is a real, reportable outcome.
Suitable forfutures and benchmark price series
Example“Does corn show a statistically significant monthly seasonal pattern?”
LimitationsUses the full history and ignores the range selected on the page. Withheld below 24 observations. A significant pattern is a description of the past, never a prediction.
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Cross-Market Comparison
v11 inputRanks a market against its group peers on period return, with mean, standard deviation, last price and observation count per market.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“How has WTI performed against the other energy contracts this year?”
LimitationsRanks and describes; it does not explain why one market led another. Cross-sectional correlation or regression needs at least eight markets and is a different question.
NeedsPeer markets
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Correlation and Lead-Lag
v11 inputReturn correlation with its overlapping observation count, a 90-period rolling correlation, and the cross-correlation at leads and lags against a noise band.
Suitable forfutures and benchmark price series
Example“Does Brent lead or lag WTI, and how stable is the relationship?”
LimitationsCorrelation needs 30 overlapping observations and lead-lag needs 60; below those floors the statistic is withheld. Correlation is not causation and the skill will not claim one.
NeedsCompare against
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Spread and Mean Reversion
v11 inputAn inter-market spread scored against its own history: current level, z-score, percentile, AR(1) mean-reversion half-life and an Augmented Dickey-Fuller verdict on stationarity.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“Where does the Brent-WTI spread sit against its own history, and does it mean-revert?”
LimitationsInter-market spreads only, and only between legs quoted in the same unit — there is no unit conversion. Calendar (contract-month) spreads are not supported. Withheld below 30 overlapping observations.
NeedsOther leg
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Macro Overlay
v12 inputsRelates a market to one macro indicator for one economy: return correlation with its overlap count, and an OLS regression with HAC standard errors.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“How does copper move with US industrial production?”
LimitationsOne indicator and one economy per run. Annual macro series rarely clear the 30-observation floor, in which case the statistic is withheld rather than estimated.
NeedsMacro indicator, Economy
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Trade Flow Snapshot
v15 inputsCounterparty ranking by physical volume and by value for one HS product, one reporting country and one direction, with a choropleth of the flows.
Suitable forcommodities with a known HS product code
Example“Where did Brazilian soybean exports go between 2018 and 2023?”
LimitationsAnnual data that lags one to two years, so it never describes the current season. The date range selected on the page is ignored in favour of the years given here. Do not mix HS levels in one question.
NeedsReporting country, HS product code, Direction, From year, To year
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Coverage Check
v1What the data actually supports before any statistic is trusted: first and last observation, count, inferred frequency and span, and which analyses that coverage can and cannot carry.
Suitable forany market with a loadable series
Example“How much history is there for this market, and what can I actually compute from it?”
LimitationsReports the coverage of this one series. It is not a catalog listing — the analyst refuses questions about which datasets or tables exist, and this skill does not ask.
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Positioning and Crowding
v1CFTC managed-money net for this market — its week-on-week change, share of open interest and percentile against its own history — set against where every other reported market sits.
Suitable forUS-listed futures with a CFTC report
Example“Is the long position in gold crowded compared with its own history?”
LimitationsWeekly data as of Tuesday, and only for US-listed markets with a verified crosswalk — a European gas or power contract has no report at all. The percentile and z-score are withheld below 26 weekly reports. Positioning is a fact about positioning, never a price forecast; nets are in contracts and are not comparable across markets.
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Supply and Demand Balance
v11 inputThe USDA balance sheet for an agricultural commodity: production, imports, exports, domestic use and ending stocks by market year, with the stocks-to-use ratio and its year-on-year change.
Suitable foragricultural markets with a USDA balance sheet
Example“What does the USDA balance sheet say about world corn stocks-to-use?”
LimitationsUSDA PSD is ANNUAL by marketing year and covers agricultural commodities only — energy, metals and power have no balance sheet here. Attributes carry their own units and must not be added together. A projection year is a USDA estimate, not an observation.
NeedsCountry
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Curve Move Comparison
v1How the forward curve MOVED: the front price and the 6- and 12-month slopes now, against the previous complete session and an earlier snapshot, with the change in each.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“How has the WTI curve moved over the past week — is the backwardation steepening?”
LimitationsNeeds enough live contract months to reach the 6- and 12-month tenors; a market with one live contract has no defined slope and the skill says so. A slope inside the flat band is reported as flat, not as a weak direction.
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What Moved, and Why
v1Every evidence channel for a move in one window at once: the return against the equally long window before it, the curve, CFTC positioning, volume against its trailing mean, and the co-moving dollar and 10-year yield — with the channels that have no data named as such.
Suitable forlisted futures markets
Example“What moved gold this week, and which of those channels actually had data?”
LimitationsGathers evidence; it does not estimate a relationship or attribute a cause. Channels are unavailable for whole classes of market — a European gas contract has no CFTC report, a spot benchmark has no curve — and the answer says so rather than going quiet. Weather, news, inventories and freight are not in this database at all.
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