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Trade the signal before it becomes the news

Public data tells you what happened. Rail commodity data tells you what’s about to happen.

The only real-time view of commodity movement by rail — across all of North America. See supply and demand shifts days or weeks before USDA/EIA reports.

  • 10,000+ commodities tracked daily

  • Validated, production-ready alpha signals

  • Only full rail network dataset (via Railinc)

You can’t trade tomorrow with yesterday’s data

The old way:

  • Wait for USDA/EIA reports

  • React late

  • Hope your competitors didn’t see it first

The Commodity Intelligence way:

  • See commodity flows as they move

  • Detect demand and supply shifts in real time

  • Trade the signal before it hits price

If your strategy depends on lagging data, you’re not trading — you’re following.

The market moves by rail — we see it first

Railinc is the official system of record for the North American rail network, and TransmetriQ is Railinc’s division responsible for turning that data into insights. More than 600 railroads feed us shipment data daily. No one else has this view of the entire North American network. No one.

  • Every railcar tracked

  • Every origin + destination

  • Every commodity

  • Every signal opportunity before it becomes consensus

If your strategy depends on lagging data, you’re not trading — you’re following.
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Price doesn’t move because of rumors — it moves because of shipments

Rail is a production fingerprint. A demand tracker. A macro pulse in motion.

Grain surges moving into ports? Export demand incoming.

Oil unloading climbing in the Gulf? Refinery utilization spike ahead.

Lumber flows dropping across the Midwest? Housing slowdown signal.

Backtested correlations across commodities show clear predictive lift ahead of market price movements

Alpha loves rail

98%

of investment pros say alt data is critical for generating alpha

30%

of quant funds attribute at least 20% of alpha to alt data

100%

of public data is late

The only full-network view of commodity movement

Delivered daily, clean, validated, and model-ready.

Data Coverage

  • Daily rail movement volumes

  • Commodity weights + descriptions

  • Loaded/unloaded railcar counts

  • Origin/destination tracking

Features

  • Historical dataset (2016–present)

  • Daily rail movement volumes

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Data supported via Snowflake | S3 | API | CSV

No noise, lag, or excuses.

Step 1 – Select universe

Commodities + regions + cadence

Step 2 – Validate the edge

Historical dataset + signal testing

Step 3 – Go live

Daily feed into your model (T+0 / T+1)

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Test it before you trust it

Validate the signal against your universe in weeks, not months.

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