Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Loqsea's CTRM platform, solutions, exchange connectivity and getting started.

About Loqsea

Loqsea is a cloud-based commodity trading risk management platform built for trading firms, CTAs, hedge funds and commodity brokers. Its core product, Risk Manager, is a CTRM solution giving trading desks real-time derivatives risk management, P&L tracking and automated reconciliation. Alongside Risk Manager, Loqsea offers Consensus Curves for forward curve pricing and Live Whiteboard for commodity broker pricing. Headquartered in London, founded 2019 and LME ISV approved.

A CTRM platform, or commodity trading and risk management software, manages trade capture, position management, P&L tracking, risk analytics and reconciliation across commodity derivatives markets. Loqsea's Risk Manager is a cloud-based CTRM solution built specifically for trading firms, CTAs and hedge funds managing derivatives exposure across futures, options, ETD and OTC instruments.

Loqsea is cloud-based only. The cloud-based model means firms can deploy without lengthy implementation projects and the platform scales with trading activity. 

Loqsea Technology is headquartered at 17 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London. The company was founded in 2019 by practitioners with direct commodity trading floor experience and works with trading firms, CTAs, hedge funds and commodity brokers.

Yes. Loqsea's Risk Manager is built for CTAs, hedge funds and trading firms that need institutional-grade CTRM software without the cost and complexity of legacy systems. The cloud-based model means firms of any size can get started and scale as their trading activity grows.

Solutions

Risk Manager is Loqsea's core CTRM solution, built for trading desks and risk teams managing derivatives exposure in real time. Consensus Curves provides live and historical forward curve pricing data for illiquid commodity products. Live Whiteboard is a client-facing pricing dashboard for commodity brokers to stream live prices directly to clients. Each addresses a distinct workflow and can be used independently or together.

Risk Manager is Loqsea's CTRM solution. It gives trading desks and risk teams a centralised, cloud-based environment to monitor positions, track mark-to-market valuations, manage options and analyse portfolio risk across commodity derivatives markets in real time. It automates trade capture via FIX connectivity and provides automated blotter matching and reconciliation across all supported exchanges and OTC instruments.
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Consensus Curves provides reliable live and historical pricing data for illiquid commodity products where benchmark prices are not readily available. It is purpose-built for trading desks that need accurate forward curve data to support risk and pricing workflows, giving firms a dependable data source for mark-to-market valuations across illiquid commodity markets.
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The Live Whiteboard is a cloud-based, white-labelled pricing dashboard built for commodity brokers. It streams live prices directly to clients the moment they change, replacing email chains and phone calls with a real-time client-facing interface accessible on any device. Prices update instantly across all connected clients without any manual intervention required.
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Exchange Connectivity

Loqsea supports direct connectivity across all major global commodity exchanges including CME Group, EEX, EUREX, ICE, LME, SGX and SHFE. As an LME ISV approved platform, Loqsea provides validated direct connectivity to LME infrastructure. Electronic trades are captured automatically the moment they are executed, eliminating manual input and reducing operational risk.

LME ISV approval means Loqsea is validated by the London Metal Exchange as an Independent Software Vendor to connect directly to LME market data and trading infrastructure. For metals trading firms this means accurate real-time LME position data, native prompt date handling and LME averaging support, rather than the approximations used by non-specialist platforms.

Yes. Loqsea supports both exchange-traded derivatives and OTC contracts across commodity markets. The platform provides a consolidated view of exposure across all instruments within the same real-time environment, enabling accurate mark-to-market valuations and risk calculations across the full commodity derivatives book.

Yes. Loqsea's Risk Manager includes an Options module giving trading and risk teams tools to manage and price options with confidence. It includes real-time Delta and Greeks monitoring, end-of-day analysis, pricing step adjustments and integrated volatility modelling across commodity derivatives markets.

AI Capabilities for Commodity Trading

Tommy is Loqsea's AI chatbot for commodity trading analysis, built into our platform. Trading and risk teams ask questions about their book in plain language and get answers drawn from live platform data, covering positions, VaR, P&L and reconciliation status. Answers reflect the current state of the book during the session.

Yes. Loqsea's Risk Manager includes Tommy, an AI chatbot for commodity trading analysis. Trading teams query live positions, VaR, P&L and reconciliation status in plain language, without building a report or exporting to a spreadsheet. Because Tommy runs on live platform data, the analysis reflects the book as it stands.

Tommy draws on live data from within the platform: positions, valuations, P&L, margin and reconciliation status as they stand during the session. Answers come from the firm's own platform data rather than an end-of-day file or an external source.

Yes. Loqsea maintains a SOC 2 Type II report, independently audited against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria. SOC 2 Type II examines how a provider's controls operate across a sustained period. The report is available to prospective clients on request as part of due diligence.

Markets and Instruments

Loqsea's Risk Manager supports derivatives trading across metals, oil and energy, agriculture and freight. The platform connects across all major global commodity exchanges including CME Group, EEX, EUREX, ICE, LME, SGX and SHFE, covering the key venues across each commodity market.

Not currently. Loqsea is a derivatives-only platform at this stage, focused on futures, options and OTC instruments across commodity markets. Physical commodity trading capabilities are on the product roadmap. If this is a requirement for your firm, get in touch with the team to discuss what is planned.
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Yes. Loqsea's Risk Manager is built for multi-asset, cross-desk trading environments. The platform gives firms a consolidated view of exposure across multiple instruments, books and desks in real time, supporting complex derivatives portfolios across commodity markets from a single cloud-based environment.

Getting Started

You can request a demo directly from the Loqsea website. A member of the team will be in touch to arrange a walkthrough of the Risk Manager CTRM platform tailored to your trading environment and requirements.
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You can contact the Loqsea team by email at sales@loqseatech.com, by phone on +44 (0) 20 4552 4273 or by completing the contact form on the website. The team works with commodity trading firms, CTAs, hedge funds and brokers globally.

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