Saturday, September 28, 2013

The End of Panjiva, PIERS, importgenius, Zepol, etc...

I recommended a new business hiding importers and exports info from public view, so as to not end up on the Trade Intelligence Services such as importgenius, Zepol, PIERS, Panjiva, all dotcoms.

Now at least one, and I imagine in time all, CHB is offering a service to make you invisible in the public reports.  Hey, what's another $150 to a trader?  To a CHB with 1000 accounts, it is another $150,000 straight to the bottom line.  Nice!

One could have always, and still can, hide their activity from public scrutiny by simply making the "to order" field on the OBL or AWB name the CHB, but this is more thorough.

The info at these services will degrade over time, and then they will disappear, I expect.  As I said, it was never tactically or strategically useful info for a real trader anyway.

 Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.


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