Commodity Trading Flashcards (Anki)
Spaced-repetition flashcard decks for commodity and freight professionals. 200+ cards per deck, built for active recall — the same learning method used in medical schools to memorise thousands of terms fast.
Each deck covers the vocabulary that matters on a trading desk: benchmarks, contract structures, freight routes, charter party clauses, and regulatory terms across coal, metals, and oil. Import into Anki (free, cross-platform) and drill on your commute or between trades.
Coal Trader's Lexicon
Thermal and coking coal markets, FOB/CIF benchmarks, port congestion, freight indices, charter party terms.
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Iron ore, copper, aluminium — price indices, contract structures, freight routes, market terminology.
$29Get on Gumroad →Oil Trader's Lexicon
Crude and refined products, tanker freight, Platts/Argus assessments, trading structures.
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Complete Commodity Bundle
All three decks — coal, metals, and oil. 600+ flashcards covering the full spectrum of commodity trading and freight terminology.
$59 $87
Why Anki for commodity trading?
A junior trader joining a coal desk hears “Newcastle 6000 NAR”, “Capesize five-port TC average”, “NOR tendered SHINC” in the first week. Most learn by osmosis over months. Anki compresses that to days — not because it simplifies, but because spaced repetition forces your brain to retrieve each term right before you would have forgotten it.
Each card is written by practitioners who have worked on trading desks — not scraped from Wikipedia. The coal deck covers FOB vs CIF pricing, GCV/NAR conversions, laytime calculations, and charter party red flags. The metals deck includes LME contract structures, iron ore index mechanics, and scrap grading. The oil deck covers Platts and Argus assessment windows, tanker types, and refinery margin terms.
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