Autumn 2025 Product Update

What you can do

• Customise arbs → Reflect your market intelligence directly in Sparta.
• Collaborate desk-wide → One endorsed arb per route, no conflicts or duplicate versions.
• See market vs. internal views → Clear flags for Sparta vs custom arbs in one dashboard.
• Test and adjust safely → Run scenarios on freight, CFDs, and FOBs without exposing proprietary intel.
• Stay compliant → Every edit is logged and defensible.

Why it matters

Without Sparta, crude desks fight battles in spreadsheets: duplicated work, hidden assumptions, and slow consensus.
With Sparta:

• No more chasing numbers → Everyone sees the same arb, live.
• No more blind spots → Analysts and operators see exactly when and why arbs shift.
• No more risk of “he said/she said” → Full tracking protects P&L, compliance, and careers.

Trader

Model your own freight and CFD views, then share an endorsed arb that the whole desk uses for cargo allocation and hedging.

Manager

Lock down one official arb per route so decisions happen faster, with no conflicting numbers.

Analyst

Validate trader inputs instantly, track historical shifts, and defend exposure reports with confidence.

Risk/Compliance

Rely on history for every change, protecting your team from disputes or reporting errors.

What you get

• Live signals across 80+ global crude grades and DPP routes
• Instant clarity on whether a grade or route is over, under, or fairly valued
• Regional and global rankings with historical baselines
• Freight and crude signals combined in one view

Why it matters for you:

Most desks only see the mispricing once it’s already in the number. Crude signals shows you the dislocation as it forms:

• Instant conviction → Know if a grade or TD route is under, over, or fairly valued, refreshed every 15 minutes.
• Real market context → Signals built on 12+ months of trading relationships, not noise or guesswork.
• Move first, not after → Spot spread shifts, freight anomalies, and physical-to-paper dislocations before the rest of the market reacts.

Trader

• Spot dislocations before they’re priced in
• Benchmark your crude against global competition
• Time paper spreads with live physical signals

Analyst

• Validate trader calls with data-backed signals
• Track dislocations across 12 months of history
• Build conviction into forward outlooks

Freight

• RBI benchmarks show when TD routes diverge from crude demand
• See freight in full market context, not in isolation
• Capture misaligned freight spreads faster

The problem:

Arbs are often scattered, delayed, or stuck in spreadsheets. That means opportunities slip before you can line them up with live curves.

The solution. Arbs in live curves:

Bring margins and delivered prices straight into your live curves workflow. See them side-by-side with futures, swaps, and physicals, in real time, with full filtering and history

Traders

Spot arb inefficiencies fast by overlaying margins with live and historical curves.

Analysts

Run seasonal studies and benchmark supply chain flows without manual exports

Risk teams

One source of truth for landed values, aligned with the desk’s official market view.

Everyone

No more reconciling spreadsheets. Build arbs, landed costs, and exposure models in one place, inside your curve workflow.