Fundamental Analytics

BlackSummit also manages Fundamental Analytics, a unique commodities research platform for professionals, producers, and corporate entities to develop commodities futures trading strategies and hedging tactics and to study patterns in energy, grains, currencies, and metals.

Fundamental Analytics assists its subscribers in building a more informed trading strategy for the commodities that affect their business. The online platform combines fundamental data and futures price data, with powerful charting and analysis tools for major energy and agricultural commodities and their futures. The platform is used by commodity traders seeking to enhance their research and analysis – traders like those at Shell, Mercuria Energy Group, and Prime International, to name a few.

Fundamental Analytics can also provide customized, boutique reports handcrafted by our industry analysts for its subscribers on a timely basis depending on their needs.

Few other platforms or tools attempt to integrate fundamental data and futures price data in meaningful ways. The ability to examine prices together with fundamentals – and to perform meaningful analysis between them – often leads to significant insights into the relationships and patterns in futures markets.

Example Charts

Wheat Futures

This graph tracks the front month price of a futures contract on NYMEX wheat. The effect of international markets on wheat prices is clear from the spike in early 2022 from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Open Interest in Crude Oil Contracts

The open interest (red line) in WTI crude oil contracts (black line) indicates the demand from traders for each calendar contract. From this, traders can discover possible undervalued or overvalued positions.