Sailing on the Prosmar Data Lake
[Oslo - April 1st, 2025]
In shipping, staying ahead isn’t just about making the right moves; it’s also about understanding how your position evolved over time, and what you got out of that. Market shifts, pricing fluctuations, and volume changes all shape your profitability every single day, but without a structured way to analyze them, key insights can slip through the cracks.
Prosmar’s data lake and development reporting introduce a new approach: a daily snapshot of your position, enabling you to track shifts, deconstruct changes, and isolate the effects of price and volume on your portfolio over time.
Capture Your Position, Every Single Day
Prosmar’s data center provides a structured, day by day record of your portfolio, ensuring no data point is lost by importing and joining together from every relevant source in your ecosystem. This allows you to uncover historical trends, spot inefficiencies, and even guard against incorrectly entered data.
Instead of relying on fragmented databases or manual tracking, Prosmar ensures that your portfolio’s entire evolution over time is stored and accessible, with a structured breakdown of when and where changes were made.
Why Prosmar’s Data Lake Gives You a Competitive Edge
Traditional trading reports offer static snapshots of a position, but true insight comes from tracking how your position evolves over time and the effects of these changes. With Prosmar’s daily position tracking, you can:
Instantly compare today’s position vs. yesterday’s or any other dates.
Break down your portfolio’s performance by market shifts and volume effects.
Evaluate the performance of various hedging strategies (e.g., freight vs. FFAs, bunker hedging, COAs).
Automate deeper analysis without reconstructing past positions manually, through either our pre-packaged interface or API connections.
Breaking Down Performance: Price vs. Volume Effects
Understanding where your profits (or losses) come from is crucial for any firm. Was your latest P&L shift driven by a market price swing on certain contracts, or was it due to changes in portfolio size through new or settled positions?
Prosmar’s analytics break down each P&L movement into its two key components:
Price Effect: Measures how much of your position’s change stems from shifts in the underlying market rate benchmark for that trade. This helps assess how well you’re navigating market volatility.
Volume Effect: Tracks the impact of scaling your position up or down. Were performance shifts due to deliberate exposure adjustments, or should these changes be interpreted in the context of linked hedges for other positions? All of this analysis is provided by the Prosmar Data Centre.
By breaking down all gains and losses to this more granular level, firms can fine tune both their risk management and analysis of successful strategies with all of the context in place.
Risk-Adjusted Performance: Our Smart Metrics
With a complete historical record of positions, Prosmar can apply advanced portfolio analytics to measure performance in the context of risk, volatility, and downside exposure.
Here you can find more on our approach to performance analysis.
Some of the metrics we can show the historical development of are:
Sharpe Ratio: How much return are you generating relative to overall risk?
Treynor Ratio: How exposed is your portfolio to broader market movements?
Value at Risk (VaR) vs Returns: What’s your performance relative to your worst case drawdown in extreme conditions?
By integrating these analytics into daily reporting, you can move beyond far beyond just intuition, making quantifiable, risk-adjusted decisions that improve long-term performance.
Final Thoughts: A Data-Driven Future for Freight Trading
Profitability in shipping isn’t just about making the right decisions on vessels, cargos and paper; it’s about understanding why some strategies succeed and how they can be optimized over time.
With Prosmar’s data lake and reporting tools, you can begin to move beyond simple P&L tracking and start making smarter, data-driven trading decisions.
Want to see the difference for yourself? Get in touch with Prosmar today for a demo!