In futures day trading it is often referred to "big players" that are moving the markets. The following article lists the 10 largest players in the commodity sector that have an extensive influence on the commodity markets and act as market markers similar to influential prop trading firms. In order flow trading, the aim is to identify those players in the markets with the respective order flow trading strategy and benefit from their purchasing respectively selling power.

VITOL GROUP

Revenues: $225 billion (2019)

CEO: Russel Hardy

Chairperson: Ian Taylor

Founded: 1966

Headquarters: London (United Kingdom)

Stock Listing: Private Company

Number of Employees: 1365

Source: Vitol Group

Vitol was founded 1966 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Today, the company serves clients from around 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets. Being a leader in the energy sector, Vitol covers the spectrum from oil to power, renewables and carbon. Vitol's clients include national as well as multinational oil companies and leading industrial companies. The company trades around 8 million barrels per day of crude oil and related products and has 250 ships transporting its cargoes.

GLENCORE INTERNATIONAL

Revenue: $142.3 billion (2020)

CEO: Ivan Glasenberg

Founded: 1974

Headquarters: Baar (Switzerland), London (United Kingdom), Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Stock listing: London Stock Exchange (FTSE 100 component)

Employees: 145,000

Source: Glencore

Glencore was founded in 1974 and is today one of the largest traders of metals, minerals and oil and ranks in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies and is de facto the world's largest commodity trading company. Despite having significant coal, metal, and oil assets, Glencore revenues are dominated by trading activities as the company had total revenues of $142 billion in 2020. Glencore maintains a global market share of 60% in internationally tradeable zinc, 50% internationally tradea