Cathodes, concentrates and the paperwork behind them
Built for desks trading copper, aluminium, cobalt and the rest — where a parcel is quoted against LME, quality is settled by an SGS report, and the same lot reaches you through three intermediaries who each claim to be direct.
Free. No card, no password — we email you a link.
Who this is for
Desks trading refined metals and concentrates, whether you hold the mandate or are working the buy side.
Three brokers, one cargo, no way to tell
A parcel of Grade A cathodes comes round on Monday at LME minus twelve, on Wednesday at minus fifteen from somebody else, and on Friday from a third broker who says they are direct to the mine. Two of the three are not, and there is no way to find out except by burning a week.
Meanwhile the quality terms, the assay basis and the weighing procedure live in a WhatsApp thread, and get retyped into every email you send about the cargo.
What changes
The same lot, recognised
Inco fingerprints each offer as it arrives, so the second and third appearance of a parcel are flagged against the first — with the price drift between them visible.
A mandate the principal confirmed
Ask the mine or the trader you represent to confirm it, in one click and with no account. Your briefs then carry a seal that the others in the chain do not.
Quality terms written once
Grade, assay basis, weighing and inspection go in the brief in the shape a counterparty expects to read them, rather than being reassembled per email.
In your terms
The specification carries whatever the trade uses, not a fixed set of fields for one commodity.
What it costs
A desk of your own is free. You pay when Inco is running your deal flow, not to be reachable on it.
Questions
- Does it handle concentrates as well as refined metal?
- Yes. The specification is whatever the trade uses — payable metal, moisture, deleterious elements — because a brief carries the terms you give it rather than a fixed set of fields for one commodity.
- Can I price against LME rather than a flat number?
- Yes. A price basis is text, so "LME minus 12%" or "cash settlement plus premium" reads the way you would write it to a counterparty.
Open a desk and try it against your own flow
It takes a minute, costs nothing, and your counterparties never pay to deal with you.
Free. No card, no password — we email you a link.