Rasad is a price terminal for the Pakistan palm-oil trade.
News, rates, prices — before anyone else. Built for importers, refiners, and traders who can't pay $3,000/mo for Bloomberg but can't afford to miss a tick either.
Palm oil is the family business. I grew up watching prices tick, cargos land, and margins vanish because someone, somewhere, had a number five minutes earlier than we did.
I'm keeping my name off the site for now. Call me AW. The terminal is the work, not the author.
I started Rasad because the trade I came from runs on WhatsApp groups that charge $50–200/month for prices that are free on the exchange websites, newswires that show up two hours after the wire moves, and PDFs that arrive by fax. Everyone pretends this is normal. It isn't.
Rasad is $25/mo for the first 200 (Founding), $49/mo after — not $3,000. We just launched. We're adding data every week. If you're in the trade and you see something missing, tell me — AW.
What Rasad shows
Live prices
MDEX, BMD, DCE, CBOT, ICE, MCX, LME. Tick-level, not 15-min delayed.
Pakistan landed cost calculator
FOB → CIF → Ex-Port → Ex-Factory in PKR/Maund. SBP interbank FX, live customs duty, real freight.
Pakistan mandi board
RBD, Crude, Soybean, Canola, Sunflower, Cotton, Sugar, Gold, Wheat, Rice. Every row live.
Newswire
Two premium paid wires + DAWN, BBC, GEO public RSS. 147+ headlines, full bodies cached 30 days.
Market calendar
BMD settlements, Cargo Surveyor estimates, SBP monetary policy, EIA inventories, FBR SROs.
Counterparty directory
Importers, refiners, traders, brokers. Updated hourly.
Next.js 16 + Auth.js + PostgreSQL on Google Cloud (rasad-app + rasad-engine + rasad-db, all in asia-southeast1). Primary data via a licensed real-time exchange bridge. Newswire via two premium paid wires + public RSS aggregation. Refresh latency: prices < 1s, newswire < 10s, mandi < 5m, counterparty/calendar < 1h.
No black boxes. If you want to know where a number came from, the terminal shows the derivation.
$25
/mo · Founding
Bloomberg costs $27,660/year. Refinitiv costs $24,000/year. Both built for London and Chicago, not Karachi.
Rasad is $25/mo for the first 200 (Founding) and $49/mo for everyone after. The Pakistani palm-oil trade doesn't need a Bloomberg — it needs a terminal that actually covers it. We just launched; the price reflects that.
Team of one. Based in Karachi. For now.
Rasad is not a trading platform. You can't place an order here.
Rasad is not a financial advisor. Nothing on this screen is a recommendation.
Rasad is not a guarantee of accuracy. We do our best; trades rely on your own verification.
Questions? — AW