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BRENT 86.540 ▼ 2.30% WTI 81.840 ▼ 0.63% NAT GAS 2.9260 ▲ 5.63% GOLD 4,684.50 ▲ 1.00% SILVER 69.165 ▲ 0.77% PLATINUM 1,863.50 ▲ 0.59% PALLADIUM 1,352.00 ▲ 1.51% COPPER 6.7170 ▲ 0.11% WHEAT 757.50 ▲ 10.50% CORN 535.50 ▲ 6.99% SOYBEAN 1,262.75 ▲ 2.83% COFFEE 321.00 ▼ 13.57% SUGAR 17.620 ▲ 2.03% COCOA 5,829.00 ▲ 1.22% COTTON 88.660 ▲ 1.81% EUR/USD 1.1658 ▼ 0.10% USD/JPY 159.24 ▼ 0.01% GBP/USD 1.3603 ▼ 0.28% USD/CHF 0.8049 ▲ 0.32% data · yahoo finance · exchangerate-api · finnhub BRENT 86.540 ▼ 2.30% WTI 81.840 ▼ 0.63% NAT GAS 2.9260 ▲ 5.63% GOLD 4,684.50 ▲ 1.00% SILVER 69.165 ▲ 0.77% PLATINUM 1,863.50 ▲ 0.59% PALLADIUM 1,352.00 ▲ 1.51% COPPER 6.7170 ▲ 0.11% WHEAT 757.50 ▲ 10.50% CORN 535.50 ▲ 6.99% SOYBEAN 1,262.75 ▲ 2.83% COFFEE 321.00 ▼ 13.57% SUGAR 17.620 ▲ 2.03% COCOA 5,829.00 ▲ 1.22% COTTON 88.660 ▲ 1.81% EUR/USD 1.1658 ▼ 0.10% USD/JPY 159.24 ▼ 0.01% GBP/USD 1.3603 ▼ 0.28% USD/CHF 0.8049 ▲ 0.32% data · yahoo finance · exchangerate-api · finnhub BRENT 86.540 ▼ 2.30% WTI 81.840 ▼ 0.63% NAT GAS 2.9260 ▲ 5.63% GOLD 4,684.50 ▲ 1.00% SILVER 69.165 ▲ 0.77% PLATINUM 1,863.50 ▲ 0.59% PALLADIUM 1,352.00 ▲ 1.51% COPPER 6.7170 ▲ 0.11% WHEAT 757.50 ▲ 10.50% CORN 535.50 ▲ 6.99% SOYBEAN 1,262.75 ▲ 2.83% COFFEE 321.00 ▼ 13.57% SUGAR 17.620 ▲ 2.03% COCOA 5,829.00 ▲ 1.22% COTTON 88.660 ▲ 1.81% EUR/USD 1.1658 ▼ 0.10% USD/JPY 159.24 ▼ 0.01% GBP/USD 1.3603 ▼ 0.28% USD/CHF 0.8049 ▲ 0.32% data · yahoo finance · exchangerate-api · finnhub
— CEST · Vienna
Vienna 48.21°N · Singapore 1.35°N
Vol. II · No. 038
Thursday, 27 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
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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