Motto: "What the world trades, we map — from the mine to the market."
Mission: To make the global commodities exchange ecosystem fully visible, searchable, and understandable — every venue, every product, every data feed, for every participant from producer to trader to regulator.
Vision: A world where no commodity transaction happens in the dark — where every exchange is catalogued, every product category is mapped, and every market participant has a single window into the global commodity trading infrastructure.
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The Commodities Supply Chain — Every Step
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Extraction & Production
Mines, wells, farms, forests — where commodities originate. Producers hedge with futures on local and international exchanges.
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Logistics & Shipping
Bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, rail, pipeline. Freight derivatives (Baltic Exchange on SGX) hedge shipping costs.
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Processing & Refining
Crude to refined, ore to metal, beans to oil. Processors hedge input and output prices on exchanges like CME, SHFE, DCE.
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Commodities Exchanges
Where standardized contracts are traded — futures, options, spot. 106 exchanges globally. Price discovery and risk transfer happen here.
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Institutional Trading
Hedgers (producers, consumers), speculators, funds, banks. Trade through exchanges or OTC. Clear through exchange clearinghouses.
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End Markets & Consumers
Manufacturers, retailers, consumers. The physical commodity reaches its final use — fuel, food, metal, energy — priced off the exchange benchmarks.
CRITICOS maps exchanges at the heart of every step — the price discovery and risk transfer hub where the entire chain converges.
What It Is
CRITICOS is the first comprehensive atlas of every commodities exchange and market in the world. We catalog each venue — its location, founding year, products traded, data feed availability, and strategic significance — in a single searchable database.
Parent Company
CRITICOS is an initiative of Berube Capital — a commodities trading and research firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Berube Capital's research desk (CANOLA RESEARCH) produces daily commodity intelligence across precious metals, energy, agriculture, and critical minerals. CRITICOS extends this research infrastructure to exchange-level coverage globally.
Who It's For
- Producers hedging output on relevant exchanges
- Traders seeking venue coverage and benchmark mapping
- Researchers mapping global commodity flows
- Regulators monitoring market infrastructure
- Students learning how commodities actually trade
Data Tiers
- Live — Real-time API (WebSocket, REST, FIX). gold-api.com for precious metals; CME, ICE, LME, SGX, MCX for institutional feeds.
- Delayed — 15-min delayed or similar free endpoints (Yahoo Finance futures).
- Market Pages — Public delayed data on exchange websites, scrapeable.
- Closed — No accessible electronic feed. Historical or dormant.
Coverage Scope
106 commodities exchanges across 7 regions: North America (13), Latin America (6), Europe (19), Africa (18), Asia (39), Oceania (4), and International/Cross-Border (7). Includes every major exchange and most minor/regional ones.
Values
Research, not advice. Every data row records its source and real-time flag so the portal never mistakes an indicative level for a live print. We label proxies as proxies and delayed data as delayed. Transparency is the differentiator — founded by a CPA(K) + CFA candidate committed to CFA VII(B) Standards of Practice.
CRITICOS v1.0 · A Berube Capital initiative.
Built from Wikipedia, exchange websites, FIA statistics, and World Federation of Exchanges data.
Last indexed: August 2026