The market open, decoded daily.
Energy, equities and the macro and micro stories that move them, explained by someone who has traded commodity markets. Markets to Freedom is the daily show covering geopolitics, economic data, analysis and the experts shaping it all, built to help you reach freedom.
25 years on the desk
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One hour, before the open. The macro story, the energy complex and the trade ideas that shape the day. Live at 08:00 GMT once the daily programme starts.
Weekly setup
The week's catalysts: data prints, central bank speakers, energy inventories and the OPEC calendar.
Energy deep dive
Oil, gas and power. Where the curve is mispriced and what the desks are positioning for.
Macro Wednesday
Inflation, rates and currencies. How the energy complex reads through to the broader macro picture.
Trader interview
One guest. One book. Real lessons from people who have moved markets, not pundits.
Freedom Friday
The long game: building wealth, structuring income and getting closer to the optionality of full financial independence.
What's coming
Markets to Freedom is a new daily show and newsletter, hosted by Rukes Ahmed after 25 years across commodity trading, market data and intelligence platforms. Articles and videos will follow once the daily programme starts. Join the newsletter to be the first to know.
Rukes Ahmed
Energy markets veteran · 25 years
I've spent a quarter century inside energy markets: a trader at Gazprom and Shell, a senior executive at ICIS, Global Head at Refinitiv. I've seen what actually moves prices, who actually makes money and how the people who got out early did it.
Markets to Freedom is the show I wish I'd had at 25. Daily, plain-spoken, written from the desk, not the lecture hall.
- Global Head, Energy at Refinitiv
- Senior Executive at ICIS
- Energy Trader at Gazprom Marketing & Trading
- Energy Trader at Shell
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