The work that is disappearing was never really yours. What to learn, what cannot be automated, and how to position for the next role in an AI-first commodity market.
The commodity markets have always rewarded people who could read what others couldn't. A freight rate shift before the news broke. A supply disruption priced into the curve before the headlines caught up. Physical intuition built over years of watching cargoes move, counterparties negotiate, and markets clear.
That edge is not going away. But the floor beneath it is shifting.
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Anish has spent 12+ years inside commodity trading floors delivering ETRM and trading systems, from front-office deal capture to the post-go-live months where implementations are won or lost. He writes The Trading Narrative for the practitioners who run those desks: traders, delivery leads, and the professionals in between.
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