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The Palm Oil Observatory
Rasad (Arabic: رصد) means observation — specifically, the patient, disciplined act of watching a subject long enough to know its nature.
The word traces to the Rasad Khana— the observatories of the Islamic Golden Age, most famously Ulugh Beg's in 1420s Samarkand. From a single stone meridian carved into a hillside, astronomers mapped 1,018 stars to fractional-degree accuracy without a telescope. Their method was not cleverness. It was stillness, instruments, and years.
We took the name because palm oil is a market that rewards the same disciplines. Prices move on weather three weeks away, stockpiles you cannot see, and political decisions that leak out in fragments. The trader who wins is not the one with the fastest reaction. It is the one whose instruments are aimed at the right sky.
Rasad is the instrument. The observer is still you.
Official exchange feeds for futures, SBP/OGRA for Pakistan policy, Kemendag for Indonesia duty, NOAA/Open-Meteo for weather. No scraped tables, no paid aggregators wrapping paid aggregators.
Every figure carries a visible "as-of" timestamp. When a feed drops, the UI says so. The calculator refuses to quote if the FX leg is stale. Silence beats a lie.
Maund (37.3242 kg) for oils, Tola for gold, PKR/L for fuel, PKR/kg for retail. Conversions auto-apply from whatever unit the feed ships — you see the number you trade in.