Signal · Built · Licensed · Acquired

Quantitative intelligence
for commodities trading.

1118 designed and built Signal to help commodities traders uncover compelling trade ideas through data, quantitative analysis, and machine learning.

Signal was used in live markets, licensed commercially, and later acquired.

Authentic Signal interface from 2019, showing seasonal commodity data and correlation analysis. — Original Signal interface · 2019Explore the original screen ↗

02 / Problem

The problem and domain.

Commodities analysis brings together different contracts, time periods, and market relationships. Signal was built to make those quantitative workflows visual.

The opportunity was to translate domain expertise into a workspace for exploring the data behind a trade idea.

03 / Product idea

Translating quantitative expertise into software.

Signal combined data, quantitative analysis, and machine learning to help uncover compelling trade ideas.

Historical, seasonal, and correlation views gave different perspectives on the same analytical question.

04 / What 1118 built

Product experience.

1118 designed, built, and launched the platform. The interface brought analytical structures, time-window selection, charting, and detailed comparisons into one product.

The original screens show how a user could define contracts and metrics, adjust expirations and time shifts, and explore the resulting relationships.

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.

Authentic Signal historical-data screen with selectable analytical structures, time-series charts, and a time-range navigator — Historical data and time-window exploration · Authentic Signal interface, August 2019 View full image ↗

Authentic Signal Manage Structures dialog showing contract, expiration, skew, time-shift, and metric controls — Manage Structures · Authentic Signal interface, August 2019 View full image ↗

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.

06 / Outcome

Commercialization and acquisition.

The platform was used in live markets, licensed commercially, and later acquired.

Signal is part of 1118's history of turning specialized expertise into working software and bringing it into commercial use.

07 / Status

Built · Licensed · Acquired.

Signal is presented here as historical work. The product screens are authentic archives from 2019.

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