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BRENT 83.550 ▲ 5.16% WTI 78.230 ▲ 4.00% NAT GAS 2.6330 ▼ 2.05% GOLD 4,298.70 ▲ 1.25% SILVER 61.785 ▼ 0.51% PLATINUM 1,735.60 ▼ 0.10% PALLADIUM 1,376.00 ▲ 0.83% COPPER 6.7170 ▲ 0.21% WHEAT 630.50 ▼ 1.83% CORN 461.25 ▲ 5.61% SOYBEAN 1,177.50 ▲ 2.26% COFFEE 324.25 ▼ 0.81% SUGAR 15.580 ▲ 2.84% COCOA 5,723.00 ▼ 2.70% COTTON 83.130 ▲ 1.58% EUR/USD 1.1552 ▲ 0.23% USD/JPY 157.58 ▼ 0.02% GBP/USD 1.3469 ▲ 0.16% USD/CHF 0.8075 ▼ 0.26% data · yahoo finance · exchangerate-api · finnhub BRENT 83.550 ▲ 5.16% WTI 78.230 ▲ 4.00% NAT GAS 2.6330 ▼ 2.05% GOLD 4,298.70 ▲ 1.25% SILVER 61.785 ▼ 0.51% PLATINUM 1,735.60 ▼ 0.10% PALLADIUM 1,376.00 ▲ 0.83% COPPER 6.7170 ▲ 0.21% WHEAT 630.50 ▼ 1.83% CORN 461.25 ▲ 5.61% SOYBEAN 1,177.50 ▲ 2.26% COFFEE 324.25 ▼ 0.81% SUGAR 15.580 ▲ 2.84% COCOA 5,723.00 ▼ 2.70% COTTON 83.130 ▲ 1.58% EUR/USD 1.1552 ▲ 0.23% USD/JPY 157.58 ▼ 0.02% GBP/USD 1.3469 ▲ 0.16% USD/CHF 0.8075 ▼ 0.26% data · yahoo finance · exchangerate-api · finnhub BRENT 83.550 ▲ 5.16% WTI 78.230 ▲ 4.00% NAT GAS 2.6330 ▼ 2.05% GOLD 4,298.70 ▲ 1.25% SILVER 61.785 ▼ 0.51% PLATINUM 1,735.60 ▼ 0.10% PALLADIUM 1,376.00 ▲ 0.83% COPPER 6.7170 ▲ 0.21% WHEAT 630.50 ▼ 1.83% CORN 461.25 ▲ 5.61% SOYBEAN 1,177.50 ▲ 2.26% COFFEE 324.25 ▼ 0.81% SUGAR 15.580 ▲ 2.84% COCOA 5,723.00 ▼ 2.70% COTTON 83.130 ▲ 1.58% EUR/USD 1.1552 ▲ 0.23% USD/JPY 157.58 ▼ 0.02% GBP/USD 1.3469 ▲ 0.16% USD/CHF 0.8075 ▼ 0.26% data · yahoo finance · exchangerate-api · finnhub
— CEST · Vienna
Vienna 48.21°N · Singapore 1.35°N
Vol. II · No. 017
Thursday, 6 August 2026 — A.D.
Trade Signal Labs · Vol. II

Trading the tides / research instruments.

Quantifying execution integrity and policy risk with sovereign data — live AIS vessel tracking, the Policy-Execution Integrity Model, and a small library of working tools kept in semi-public beta.

Live · Project Status — CEST
Vessels in pool
Working papers
01
Malacca / Hormuz
— · —in bbox
Last AIS sync
min ago
Lab № 01

Live AIS · Vessels in the corridor.

Currently selected — Click a vessel marker to inspect —
Vessels in pool awaiting first sync
Malacca strait in bounding box
Hormuz strait in bounding box
Suez approach in bounding box
COMMODITY INTELLIGENCE HUB / SIG-LAB-01
GLOBAL ENERGY FLOWS

MARKET SIGNALS

CHOKEPOINT ANALYTICS

Suez Canal NORMAL / 22vph
Panama Canal DELAY / 14vph
Strait of Malacca HIGH DENSITY
VOLATILITY INDEX (VIX-COM)
24.5 ▲ +1.2%
P · 01

The corridor commute calculator.

A small tool to plot the real cost-in-time of Vienna ↔ Singapore against rotated alternatives.

Tool · live · MIT
P · 02

Heuriger finder.

A Vienna-only walking map of the season's open Buschenschanken, with elevation and tram-stop distance.

Tool · live
P · 03

AIS replay canvas.

A WebGL playback engine for archived vessel positions — used internally for the chokepoint pieces.

Internal · semi-public
P · 04

Sanction list diff watcher.

Watches OFAC, EU, and SECO consolidated lists nightly. Posts a diff to the journal RSS when material.

Bot · live
P · 05

The colophon.

How this journal is built, hosted, typeset, and the small choices behind it.

Document · evergreen
P · 06

FX desk-tape.

A quiet two-row ticker for the major FX crosses. Lives in the corner of a screen, nowhere else.

Tool · live