Knowledge product
Trading Handbook
Open educational desk reference for sulfur traders and purchasers. Forms, contracts, North American geography, trade flows, price formation, desk practice, and risk. Ungated PDF. Not a PRA price book.
Edition 2026.07. Built for fertilizer procurement, producer marketing, physical traders, logistics planners, and analysts who need a single structured map beside a licensed assessment feed.
Chapters
- Recovered elemental sulfur (Claus / oil sands pathway)
- Forms and logistics (molten, prill, granule, pastille, slate, crushed)
- Units and contracts (MT vs LT, FOB/CFR/CIF, Tampa vs dry bulk)
- North American geography (Alberta, forming, rail, Vancouver, Gulf, Tampa)
- Trade flows (Canada-Asia Pacific, US molten, diversion episodes)
- Price formation (PRA role vs open anchors, basis, freight netbacks)
- Supply and demand drivers (without fake precision)
- Desk practice and using Sulfur Wire
- Risk (demurrage, quality, sanctions, storage/remelt)
- Glossary and further reading
PRA boundary
Sulfur Wire is not Argus, Platts/S&P Global, or CRU. This handbook teaches how markets and assessments work. Licensed weekly assessment series are not redistributed. Public episodic anchors from USGS, VFPA, AER-linked reporting, BC Insight, and open trade-press reprints are attributed.
Companion pages
Desk guide · Units · Series catalog · Methodology · License · Topics · Hubs
Source
Typst manuscript under product/sulfur-platform/handbook/. Rebuild: handbook/build.ps1. Corrections: [email protected].