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Using daily data for a diversified 15-asset commodity system, including precious metals, energy commodities, industrial metals and soft commodities, over the period 2020\u20132024, we construct rolling coupling matrices based on both linear correlations and nonlinear mutual information and embed them into Ising and Sherrington\u2013Kirkpatrick-type interaction frameworks. While aggregate synchronization indicators\u2014such as average coupling strength and the largest eigenvalue\u2014exhibit similar dynamics across the two representations, the spin glass framework reveals substantially richer structural heterogeneity. Preserving the sign structure of the interactions leads to wider dispersion, higher variability and nontrivial network configurations that are suppressed in the Ising representation. The results identify the Ising model as a benchmark for market coherence. 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