What's new in FutureSource 4.4.2 | Release Notes
Content Additions
ICE Futures Singapore
Real-time and delayed data for ICE Futures Singapore Exchange is now available. This includes Mini Brent, Mini WTI, and Currency Futures.
Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange
Real-time & delayed Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange is now available.
Korea Futures Exchange
We have expanded our coverage for the Korea Futures Exchange. We now offer bond, currency and commodity futures.
Commodity Spreads Expansion Our coverage for commodity spreads has been expanded to now include:
Platts News Services
Our Platts news coverage has been expanded to now include:
Excel Add-in
ICE Excel Add-In integrates seamlessly into your existing Microsoft Excel environment, providing fast access to real-time and historical market data. It takes advantage of the flexibility of Excel to provide users with an environment to perform complex market data analysis. To upgrade to our newest version select Configure RTD from the Help Menu.
New Functionality Highlights
Framework
Watchlist
Charts
Data Table
Flash Quote
Future Options
Alerts
What's new in FutureSource 4.4.1 | Release Notes
Currency & Unit of Measure Conversion
Easily analyze information in a different currency or unit of measure. This functionality is available within many of the quote and chart windows.
Heikin Ashi Candlestick charting
Heikin Ashi candlestick is now an available chart plot style.
EOX Forward Curve expansion
Continuing to expand our EOX coverage, you can now access all 3 power curve categories; Fixed Prices, Heat Rates and ATC.
Symbol Linking Expansion
You can now symbol link to tabs within the chart window.
Email Window Image
You can now generate an email directly from FutureSource. This new menu option will open a new email message in your default email client, and attach a picture of the active window.
What's new in FutureSource 4.4 | Release Notes
Function Library Expansion
Addtional Functions have been added that will allow for users to create dynamic expressions with user defined rolling logic.
External Data Enhancements
External Data (XD@) has been enhanced to support user defined fields. Prior to 4.4 there was only access to OHLC fields. The new enhancements now allow you to define field names and data types within the file itself, adding functionality and removing the need to configure fields within the External Data symbol setup dialog. See the help files for additional details.
ZE Profiles
Continuing on our ZEMA integration, users can now access their ZEMA profiles within Futuresource.
Expanded Grid Functionality
Additional Grid functionality has been added to assist in creating custom Grid layouts. Functionality such as symbol linking, toggle and pick lists and ability to draw cell borders.
Forward Curve Expressions
The Forward Curve tool has been expanded to provide more flexibility when creating expressions, including a new Shift Function.
Chart Drag & Drop
New options are now available for you drag symbols from the Watchlist to a Chart. This new functionality will allow you to control overlay placement:
Chart Studies
Elder Force Index Study - The Elder Force Index study is now available. The Force Index is an indicator that uses price and volume to assess the power behind a move or identify possible turning points. Developed by Alexander Elder
Stochastic RSI Study - The Stochastic RSI study is now available. Developed by Tushard Chande and Stanley Kroll, Stochastic Relative Strength Index is an oscillator that measures the level of RSI relative to its high-low range over a set time period. Stochastic RSI applies the Stochastics formula to RSI values, instead of price values. This makes it an indicator of an indicator. The result is an oscillator that fluctuates between 0 and 1.
% Return on Trendlines - There is now an option to display the %Return for the Trendline Points
New Preference - Closing Windows
There is a new preference that will control behavior when closing windows within a page. When set, the first click will empty the window pane, second click will remove it.
EOX Curve Drag & Drop
After you have built out your EOX Forward Curve you can drag the chart header into a Watchlist and select how many points on the Curve to display.
Workspace Symbol List Management
You can now Manage (Edit, Rename, Delete) your workspace symbol lists. There is a new option on the Symbol List Option Drop Down called Manage Symbol Lists
Desktop Shortcut
With changes in how Web Browsers will support the Java Plug-in, we have updated our application to no longer be required to run inside a Web Browser.
There is now a Desktop Shortcut available to streamline the FutureSource login process.
Flat Skin User Interface
There are now two modes that you can run FutureSource in. Our Classic Mode that has been available, as well as a new Flat Mode that offers an updated look and feel design.
OptionSource
You can now easily create multiple month portfolios within OptionSource. Users can select multiple option expirations, and also lock an option month so that toolbar analysis does not change that month's configuration.
Charts
Many new areas of functionality have been added to the Chart window, they include:
New Technical Studies - Volume Weighted Moving Average and Linear Regression Channels
New Toolbar Options - Ability to change plot style, access drawing tools and remove all analytic's
Function Library Enhancements
Additional Calculation methods are available with Annual, Quarterly and Seasonal Functions.
Other Enhancments & Bug Fixes
See the Release Notes for a complete list
OptionSource - Advanced Option Analytics Package
OptionSource helps you manage risk in volatile commodities markets. This easy to use window allows for monitoring complex options positions and graphically viewing how strategies react to changes in market price, volatility and more.
OptionSource offers a complete set of tools designed for analyzing an options portfolio’s profit and loss potential, as well as managing risk on the portfolio. It gives traders, brokers and analysts the ability to understand the pre-trade and post-trade risk characteristics of a portfolio and to perform “what if” scenarios to best understand the performance of a position or trading strategy under varying market conditions
Other Functional Highlights Include:
Content Expansion
Addtional Market Depth Coverage
FutureSource now provides Market Depth aggregated at price and (where available) full order book for the following exchanges: CBOE, Eurex, Moscow, MEFF, NSE Futures & Shanghai Futures.
What's new in FutureSource 4.2 | Release Notes
FutureSource continues to strengthen the integration with the ZEMA Data Warehouse. We have added additional functionality to analyze and breakdown ZEMA Curve Data.
FutureSource has been integrated with the ZEMA Data Management System. ZEMA is developed by ZE PowerGroup Inc. (ZE) the global leader in enterprise data management solutions (www.ze.com). For licensed users of ZEMA, Data Sources and derived Forward Curves contained and built within the ZEMA Data Warehouse can now be accessed within the FutureSource technical analysis platform, bringing together real-time data, 3rd party data and client proprietary data in one consolidated view and workflow.
ZEMA provides access to hundreds of data sources globally amounting to over 3000 possible data feeds.
Expanded Market Depth Coverage
FutureSource now provides Market Depth aggregated at price and (where available) full order book for the following exchanges: Athens Derivatives, Bursa Malaysia, Dalian Commodities, Eurex, Hong Kong Futures, ICE Canada, Italian Derivatives, KOSPI, LME, Montreal Exchange, OMX Futures, Osaka Futures, SGX Derivatives, Sydney Futures Exchange, Taifex Futures, Tel Aviv Futures, TOCOM, Tokyo Financial Exchange.
Functionality
FutureSource Trader has been enhanced to provide users with a complete and integrated workflow for analyzing market data while seamlessly executing commodities trades through multiple clearing firms and maintaining multiple accounts.
FutureSource Trader integrates with CQG's Continuums backend to bring users professional technical analysis and trade execution in one integrated platform.
Order Ticket - Allows user to create basic (market, limit, stop) as well as advanced (iceberg, trailing stop, OCO/OPO) order tickets.
Trade Manager - Allows for easy market depth based trading, with drag and drop, and 1-click execution functionality.
Account Manager - This window is now enhanced to allow you to follow all of your executions, orders, balances, positions and connection activity.
Broker Manager - Allows seamless connections to multiple accounts, and these can be easily configured and managed.
Trade Settings - New enhanced settings allow users to control notifications, client side risk controls, and default account activity.
Seamless trading - In addition to order ticket workflow, user can trade directly from the chart, watchlist or detailed quote via right click options
ICE US & ICE Europe Market Depth
Market Depth for the ICE US and Europe exchanges is now available.
Opis Racks
OPIS is the most widely accepted fuel price benchmark for supply contracts and competitive positioning. Nearly 100 billion gallons of fuel are pegged annually to OPIS rack, retail and spot prices for U.S. gasoline, diesel, LP-gas, jet fuel, crude, propane, feedstock’s, residual fuel, kerosene, ethanol and biodiesel.
OPIS is relied on as the benchmark because OPIS remains completely unbiased and independent. OPIS has no stake in fuel transactions, is not funded by oil industry initiatives, and strictly adheres to antitrust guidelines determined by independent legal counsel.
OPIS Benchmarks are relied on by:
Every major and independent oil company
Jobbers, dealers, c-stores and retail service stations
Nearly every major metropolitan transit authority, school, utility, and railroad system
Most commercial airlines, truck stops and fleets
U.S. federal, state, municipal and county government
The DESC for a vast majority of fuel used for U.S. military operations
Price Discovery Every day, including Saturdays, OPIS updates its wholesale terminal prices from hundreds of sources for its nearly 400 wholesale rack price points. For a detailed description of the methodology used to source OPIS racks please refer to:
http://www.opisnet.com/about/methodology.aspx
For a list of the rack locations covered please refer to: http://www.opisnet.com/resources/RackCode.aspx Time Stamp (all times are ET)
9am - OPIS wholesale terminal prices for gasoline, distillate, and other products are updated and ready for release.
10am - OPIS contract summary data used for benchmarking is available. The data includes the Contract Average which is a gross price that OPIS has had since 1995. OPIS provides a Contract Low and Contract High as well as Contract Net Average, Contract Net Low and Contract Net High pricing. Branded and Unbranded numbers are also available as Contract prices.
5:59pm - OPIS archives the closing rack price database for that business day. The current day's history is available the next business day.
11:59pm - OPIS Calendar-Day Average rack prices are a snapshot of the average of all supplier postings in each OPIS rack market at 11:59 p.m. eastern time. The snapshot includes all price moves from 12:00 a.m. (midnight) until the file is frozen at 11:59 p.m. (Example: The Jan. 3 Calendar-Day Average encompasses all price moves that were made at 12:00 a.m. on Jan. 3 up through 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 3. Hence, it is an average of all prices on that calendar day.)
Rack Formats
OPIS Standard Display – Provides one price per product, per supplier in each market, even when suppliers post at multiple terminals. We select the primary terminal for each supplier, so the OPIS averages that are so critical for benchmarking and market analysis are not skewed.
OPIS Terminal Display – Shows product prices posted for every supplier at all terminals in a given location for total price transparency and includes the location and owner.
Informa Agra Cash Grain
Coverage of over 700 global OTC, cash and exchange commodity prices including grains, oils, oil seeds, feeds and nuts. Content is sourced from the market acknowledged and recognized Public Ledger and coverage includes, where available, history out to 2 years. With the dynamics of the whole Agricultural market changing this provides key insight to the markets across the world and key drivers for the exchange traded instruments.
For more info visit: http://www.agra-net.com
Chart Studies - 10 new technical studies, including Average Directional Index, Bullish Divergence, Price Channel and others.
Chart Plots Styles - 2 new plot styles, level and dot plot are now available.
EOX Forward Curves - Natural Gas and Power Curves from the EOX can now be displayed.
Continuation Charts - An easy to use wizard has been added for creating continuation charts.
Channel Drawing Tool - A new drawing tool, Channel, has been added to enable users to draw 2 parallel lines.
Watchlist - Enhanced "Click to Build Expression" functionality is now available.
Watchlist Expression Fields - Additional fields are now calculated as part of an expression; open, high, low, law, previous, recent, net change & time.
Watchlist Tabs - Has been increased from 5 to 20.
Futures Options - Tab display has been added to the Futures Options window.
Futures Options Autolist - You can now create multiple Futures Options tabs using the new autolist feature, *Root 1-N.
Market Depth - Tab display has been added to the Futures Options window.
Spread Matrix - 2 additional fields are now available; Market & Recent.
Strip Calculator - 1 additional field is now available; Market.
Intersection Alerts - You can now perform intersection alerts that evaluate pricing and study information.
Alert Notifications - The alert notification preferences have been enhanced to provide additional customization.
Export GUI - An Export GUI window has been added to allow users to take price information into other applications such as Excel, for additional analysis.
Excel Add-in - The Excel Add-in has been enhanced to provide additional historical time series functionality.
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Functionality
Weather Maps - Wide variety of weather maps from WSI, which can be especially helpful in trading futures commodities.
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