Signal · Built · Licensed · Acquired
We built a better way
to uncover commodities trade ideas.
Signal began with a sophisticated quantitative trading process and a question: could that way of analyzing markets be turned into a visual software product?
Signal was used in live markets, licensed commercially, and later acquired.
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The gap.
Sophisticated commodities analysis often lived inside spreadsheets, models, and the expertise of the people using them.
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The idea.
Turn a quantitative way of analyzing markets into a visual product that made relationships, structures, and opportunities easier to explore.
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What we built.
1118 designed and built Signal, combining market data, quantitative analysis, visualization, and machine learning in one commodities research platform.
05 / Product experience
Authentic archival UI.
Define the structure.
Choose the contract, metric, expiration, and time shift.
Explore the history.
Set a time window and examine changes across the selected series.
Compare relationships.
Move between historical, seasonal, and correlation views.
The analytical choices stay visible.
The structure editor makes the ingredients of an analysis explicit. Its controls connect the market question to the data shown in the workspace.
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Product outcome.
Signal was used in live markets, licensed commercially, and later acquired.
07 / Status
Built · Licensed · Acquired.
Signal is presented here as historical work. The product screens are authentic archives from 2019.
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