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Commodity broking · from a working desk
You never buy the cargo.
You put the buyer and the seller together.
Copper, gold, oil, sulphur. Mines to ports to factories. I broker physical commodities for a living. This is the manual I wish someone had handed me, and the desk I run it from.
Monthly, billed through Whop. Cancel any time.
Illustrative desk. The numbers are examples.
How a deal runs
Six steps. The first three are yours.
Every deal on the desk sits at exactly one step. Skip step 3 and you are working for free.
- 1Seller sourced and verified
- 2Buyer sourced and verified
- 3NCNDA and fee agreement signed
- 4Contract and payment instrument
- 5Inspect and load
- 6Documents to the bank, and you are paid
Inside the desk
Your own pipeline on the six steps
Track the deals you are working on, get a fee-at-risk warning the moment one passes step 3 without paper, and keep your verification folders in order.
Read the guides in the desk or download the PDFs. Premium opens the mandate board and the weekly call.
The library
Thirteen guides, in the order you need them
Start here
The job, how you are paid, the six steps of a deal, what kills first-timers, and what you need to begin.
The players
Producers, mandates, buyers, brokers, paymasters, banks, inspectors and shippers. What each one wants, and where you fit.
Pick your lane
How each family of commodities actually trades, what the paperwork looks like, and why you start with one product.
The deal lifecycle
What happens at each step, what you are responsible for, what can go wrong, and what 'done' looks like.
Paperwork, in order
What each document is for, who issues it, what must be in it, and which ones you should refuse to sign.
Protecting your fee
NCNDA, IMFPA, the fee clause in the SPA and the paymaster. How each one closes a gap, and what to insist on.
Verifying a counterparty
Registry extracts, licences, mandate letters, trade references, past shipping documents and bank comfort letters. When to walk away.
Payment instruments
Documentary letters of credit, standby letters of credit, demand guarantees, MT760 and MT103, escrow. What each does and where your fee sits.
Pricing formulas
Index less discount, provisional and final prices, quantity tolerance, treatment charges, and worked examples with made-up numbers.
Inspection and shipping basics
SGS and the inspection regime, Incoterms (FOB, CIF, CFR, DAP), the bill of lading, laycan, ETD and ETA, trial cargo then programme.
Red flags and scams
Fake mandates, joker brokers, upfront fees, proof-of-funds games, LC and SKR frauds, daisy chains, and the three questions that end most of them.
Your first 90 days
Building a list, outreach that gets replies, running a pipeline on the six steps, and what to track every day.
Templates pack
NCNDA, IMFPA, LOI, FCO checklist, verification checklist and deal tracker: what each template must contain, with the clauses that matter.
Premium
The guides, plus my network and my time
The mandate board
Open mandates from my own network in copper, gold, oil and more. Ask for an introduction and I make it, under paperwork that protects everyone.
UAE structures for commissions
How I am set up to receive fees: the free-zone company, what the bank asks a broker for, and the mistakes that cost people months.
Weekly check-in
One call a week. Bring the deal you are stuck on. Questions taken in advance so nothing is rushed.
Plans
Two ways in
The guides. Everything I wish I had been told before my first deal.
- ✓The full guide library, 13 guides and growing
- ✓Templates: NCNDA, IMFPA, LOI, verification checklist, deal tracker
- ✓New guides as they are written
- ✓Cancel any time
The guides, plus my network and my time.
- ✓Everything in Standard
- ✓The mandate board: open mandates from my network in copper, gold, oil and more
- ✓Request an introduction to a mandate holder
- ✓UAE structures for commissions: the guide to how I am set up
- ✓The deal structuring playbook
- ✓Weekly check-in call, questions taken in advance
Who this is for
- People with a network in one commodity who want to turn it into fees.
- Traders and shippers who keep meeting “brokers” and want to be the one who actually closes.
- Anyone who has been burned by a fake mandate and wants to know how to tell next time.
Who it is not for
- Anyone expecting a deal to close in their first month.
- Anyone looking for guaranteed buyers, guaranteed sellers or guaranteed anything.
- Anyone who wants me to run the deal for them. I show you how; you do the work.