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The Physical Trade: A Definitive Guide To Physical Commodity Trading: A

by Samuel Basi

Beyond prices on a screen

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Beyond prices on a screen

Samuel Basi’s guide maps physical commodity trading across the chain connecting producers with end users. It covers how commodities are priced, contracted, financed, transported, stored, and delivered, while distinguishing these transactions from futures and other paper markets. Risk is treated as both financial and operational: hedging and exposure management sit alongside counterparty defaults, documentation, logistics, and cash-flow constraints. Personal accounts from the trading floor add examples of decisions under pressure and the costly consequences that can follow small operational errors. Together, these topics present physical trading as a system of material flows, commercial arrangements, and risk management—not simply a matter of tracking market prices.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People seeking an introduction to the mechanics of physical commodity trading
  • Readers interested in commodity supply chains, logistics, and trade finance
  • Those studying how trading risks and operational decisions intersect

Themes

Physical commodity marketsSupply chains and logisticsRisk and exposure managementTrade finance and documentationOperational decision-making

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Book overview

Physical commodity trading is one of the least understood - and poorly explained - parts of global markets.

 

This definitive guide walks the reader through the full lifecycle of physical commodity trading, including:

  • Why commodity traders exist and the role they play between producers and consumers
  • How physical supply chains work - from mine, well, or farm to end user
  • The difference between physical trading and futures or paper markets
  • How commodities are prices, contracted, and delivered
  • Hedging, mark-to-market, and exposure management
  • Logistics, shipping, storage, and operational risk
  • Trade finance, title documents, and cash-flow constraints
  • Counterparty risk, defaults, and periods of market stress
  • Where real profits are made, and where costly mistakes occur

 

Alongside structured explanations, this book includes personal stories from the trading floor, illustrating:

  • How decisions are made under pressure
  • Where mistakes are most commonly made, and why
  • How small operational errors can lead to large financial losses
  • The human side of trading that rarely makes it into textbooks

 

If you want to understand physical commodity trading, not just the prices on a screen but the flows, risks, and decisions behind them, this book was written for you.

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