How should a commodity or energy desk use SentryDock?
Commodity and energy stories often appear first in a regional paper, a ministry PDF or a Telegram channel, in the local language. That is the job SentryDock is built for. A terminal still owns prices. This product owns the public text that can explain a move.
Build one monitor per asset or basin rather than one monitor called “energy”. A copper-mine brief and an LNG-strike brief should not share a source list.
A working setup
- Brief: named assets, event types (outage, permit, strike, export rule), exclusions for price recaps.
- Sources: local paper, ministry notices, operator newsroom, one or two specialist channels.
- Schedule: hourly for most; realtime only if an in-session outage would change a position.
- Delivery: Slack or email for the desk; SMS for one asset if you truly need it.
Ranked reading
The longer comparison of commodity news tools — including where a terminal still wins — lives on the commodity monitoring comparison page. Use that when you are choosing a stack, and this guide when you are configuring SentryDock.