IntelligentTide
Practical commodity trading education for futures, options, and global market analysis
Build practical understanding of agricultural and energy trading through comprehensive curriculum designed for Thailand's growing financial sector.
Our next comprehensive program begins September 2025, running through March 2026. We're accepting applications from professionals looking to transition into commodity analysis and individuals wanting to understand how agricultural and energy markets actually function.
Sessions run Tuesday and Thursday evenings at our Phuket location, with additional weekend workshops scheduled monthly.
Thailand sits at the intersection of major agricultural exports and energy imports. Understanding how rice, rubber, palm oil, and natural gas markets operate isn't just academic—it's essential knowledge for anyone working in finance, supply chain, or business development across the region.
Most commodity courses focus exclusively on Western markets. We built our curriculum around products and trading patterns that actually matter to businesses operating in Thailand and neighboring countries.
Each module builds on practical scenarios drawn from actual market conditions between 2023-2025.
How weather patterns, planting cycles, and government policies affect rice, rubber, and palm oil pricing. You'll analyze historical data and learn to spot seasonal trends that create trading opportunities.
Natural gas imports, regional refining capacity, and how geopolitical events shift energy prices. We examine Thailand's specific position as both consumer and regional hub.
Practical hedging strategies, portfolio construction, and position sizing. These aren't theoretical exercises—we work through actual scenarios businesses face when managing commodity exposure.
Taksin Phongsuwan spent eight years at a Bangkok commodity brokerage before moving to Phuket to teach. He's not reading from textbooks—he's sharing what worked and what didn't during actual market volatility.
How commodity exchanges function, who the major players are, and what drives price movements. We start with rice markets since most students already understand the physical product.
Technical indicators that actually matter in commodity markets, fundamental analysis of supply-demand factors, and learning to read USDA reports alongside regional agricultural data.
Constructing positions across different commodities, managing correlation risk, and understanding when to cut losses. Taksin walks through trades he made—including the ones that lost money and why.