Refinitiv (LSEG) was built for broad finance. You need live signal, forward context, and a platform built for your barrel.
You already know the gap. Because you work around it every day.
Noise, not signal
Broad market coverage means broad noise. Most headlines won't move your market. Prices arrive without context. Numbers without narrative.
Data you can’t act on
Synthetic swap curves and delayed signals. A split workflow across tools, inboxes, and spreadsheets. Nothing aligned. Nothing fast. Nothing built for your barrel.
A platform that slows your desk
Navigation built for a general market. Slow to update. Slow to interpret. Designed for broad finance, not for oil trading.
See where the market is going before it moves. Live forward curves, arbs, and freight across crude and refined products.
Replace your morning spreadsheet rebuild. Curves, arb calculations, and pricing update live in one view.
The only platform delivering forward-looking pricing perspectives, not just historical data analysis.
Assessed curves from live broker flow, physical spread analytics, and
trading intelligence built for the way oil markets actually move.
One subscription covers pricing, curves, arbs, freight, forecasting, and market intelligence. Fewer vendors. Lower total cost.
Daily expert calls and live trader signals. The why behind every price move, delivered to your desk, inbox, or ICE.
Sparta brings live pricing, curated headlines, expert calls, PRA data and real-time trader signals together. Get live prices and the why behind every move, at a lower cost than bundled legacy tools.
Real-time trader signals
Arbs, flows, and cracks, called as they happen. High-signal insight you can act on instantly.
Daily and weekly market calls
Clear bullish/bearish signals across the barrel, updated daily and weekly. See momentum shifts early.
Your expert, on call
Direct access to Sparta's commodity specialists for market context, data interpretation, and trade validation.
Curated news and headlines
Only the stories that move your market. Filtered to your barrel.
Real-time outlooks and deep dives
Barrel-specific, chart-backed analysis with forward-looking scenarios. Stay ahead of the move.
Track record you can trust
Every call backed by data, curves, or fundamentals. Never opinion alone.
Delivered where you work
Desktop, email, WhatsApp, ICE. Your market intelligence, wherever your desk needs it.
Trusted benchmarks
Independent PRA-based prices, ensuring accurate mark-to-market and exposure measurement.
The comparison every desk wishes they’d made earlier.
 | LSEG | |
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Real-time futures Live futures pricing from ICE & NYMEX | 
Included. Live and streaming. | 
Delayed data. Real-time available for an additional fee. |
Historical analysis Access to historical data |
Included as part of Sparta Intelligence. |
Included as part of LSEG. |
Multi-channel access Desktop, iOS mobile app, Excel add-in, & API |
All included (API available for an additional fee). API designed for modern oil trading workflows. |
Included. API limited to a single user. |
Forward freight pricing Prompt and forward freight rate insights |
Instant access to reliable prompt and forward freight rates for 3,000+ global clean and dirty routes across vessel classes. |
Shipping Module and Distance Calculator. No forward freight forecasting. |
Analysis and news Actionable market insights, providing a forward market view |
Daily insights with clear bullish/bearish calls from analysts who trade these markets. Curated news filtered to what moves your P&L. You see momentum shifts before they move the market. |
Reuters News + Dow Jones. General financial news. |
Live arbitrage Real-time, auto-updating arb calculations |
Sparta is the only provider of real-time, forward-looking arbitrage calculations. The structures your desk actually trades, built live, in one view. | 
Not available. Traders build arbs manually from exported data. |
Real-time forward swap pricing Directly from brokers, not synthetic or delayed |
The most complete real-time pricing solution on the market for swaps, futures, the physical market, and freight. We are the only platform providing access to live pricing from leading data providers and brokerages | Synthetic curves. Delayed and end-of-day broker data. |
Real-time forward physical curves Sparta propriety data |
Included. Over 1,000 historical forward price curves to compare, contrast, and analyse seasonal trends across swaps, physical, and freight. |
End-of-day physical market assessments only. Additional fee required. |
Enhanced intelligence Custom charts, live blender, forward refining margins, freight dashboard, and blending economics |
Purpose-built intelligence modules for the grades, specs, and blending economics your desk trades. Custom dashboards. Forward refining margins. Full freight analytics. |
Not available. Generic charting only. |
We map your current curve and spread setup to Sparta in a single onboarding session. Your workspace stays live throughout. You compare on your own trades. You decide based on what you see. Your curves. Your spreads. Your call.
Desks moving to Sparta cut their market-data spend by ~38% on average. Legacy setups require separate feeds for news, swaps, physicals, and freight, plus additional services for context and analysis, and manual work to stitch it all together. Sparta replaces all of it.
Upgrade to the platform built for the way oil markets actually move.
