Platts Smart Heards
Markets Reward Those Who See Change First.
See the shift. Move First.
Commodity markets are constantly evolving. A strengthening bid, a tightening supply position, a shift in trade flows, or growing liquidity in a key market can all provide early clues about where the market may be heading next.
Platts Smart Heards helps you uncover those opportunities sooner by transforming Platts Market Heards into structured, real-time intelligence. Instead of manually reviewing thousands of market observations and complex industry shorthand, you can quickly identify meaningful patterns, monitor intraday pricing and indications, and see how market activity is developing throughout the trading day.
With a clearer view of bids, offers, trades, pricing behavior, and market dynamics, you can better understand market direction, position ahead of market moves, and make more confident decisions. Built on exclusive Platts Market Heards data, Smart Heards delivers a unique perspective on market activity that cannot be found anywhere else.
Only S&P Global Energy Platts brings you this unique advantage.
Your Trading Edge
Track intraday pricing and indications.
Monitor bids, offers, and trades as they emerge to identify market opportunities earlier and position before prices converge.
Track the grades, locations and prices shaping commodity markets.
See where liquidity is building, monitor changing prices, and see supply and demand dynamics evolve in real-time.
See what's really moving the market.
Look beyond market noise to understand liquidity, price formation, and market direction before it is reflected in end-of-day benchmark prices.
How Smart Heards helps you act faster
Traders
See opportunities before they're priced in.
Identify arbitrage opportunities, monitor intraday pricing and indications, and position ahead of market moves.
Analysts
Turn market activity into actionable insight.
Track evolving supply-demand dynamics, market sentiment, and developing trends as they emerge.
Risk Managers
Understand risks before they become exposures.
Monitor liquidity and participant behavior to support proactive risk management.
What is Smart Heards?
Every day, Platts captures thousands of Market Heards across commodity markets, gaining valuable intelligence from bids, offers, trades, pricing indications, and market sentiment shared by market participants.
Traditionally, these Market Heards are published in real-time as complex industry shorthand textual headlines, making them difficult to read and analyze at speed and scale.
Smart Heards uses AI to transform this information into structured, machine-readable data that can be searched, filtered, compared, and integrated directly into your workflows.
The result? Faster visibility into intraday market developments, spot emerging pricing and demand moves, and greater confidence in your trading, analysisand risk decisions—helping you stay one step ahead as markets move.
Platts is the only Price Reporting Agency that can offer this unique dataset.
Key features
Built for modern commodity workflows
Feature Grid
✓ AI-powered structured dataset for global market activity
✓ Search, filter and compare heards data, in tabular format
✓ Examine grades, locations, price, time and heard type
✓ Real-time visibility into bids, offers and trades
✓ Monitor supply, demand and market sentiment
✓ Analyze a specific or multiple commodity markets
✓ Model-ready data to integrate into workflows
✓ Available via Core, API and Excel Add-In
✓ Coverage across all S&P Global Energy Platts commodities
Only from Platts
Only Platts captures Market Heards directly from market participants.
Smart Heards unlocks this exclusive and trusted intelligence, giving you a unique view of market activity that helps you identify opportunities as they happen, understand market direction in real-time, and act with confidence. Smart Heards is a competitive advantage you don't want to miss.
Available through CSM+
Smart Heards is available through the Commodity Service Model (CSM+) suite.
Combine exclusive Smart Heards with trusted Platts benchmark pricing, forecasts and outlooks, and expert insights.
