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Daily Files Support Page
Daily Prices Help Page
MRI offers end of day fututres and options prices in many different
formats and delivery methods. To try out our end of day files click on
Daily Files in the Market Overview section of
our main page.
MRI currently has 10 different formats of end of day data available
for futures as well as an end of day options file. End of day futures
prices can either be downloaded directly off our site or you can use our
Email Data service to have the prices emailed to
you each night. With the Email Data service you can also restrict the
file to only the commodities you are after. You can also get all
the prices that make up our barcharts for the commodity each night
in the daily chart and statistics page for each contract we feature. This is
under the "daily prices" feature.
To download end of day futures data go to the month that you are after
by clicking on the month link on the Daily Futures File
page, inside the Daily Files selection. Once you get to the month page a calendar will
appear with 10 choices for each day of the month. Click on the letter
that you are interested in and the data for that day will appear in
the format of your choice. Next click on "file" option on the top left
hand corner of your browser and then click on the "save as" option that
appears in the pull down menu. This will save the data onto your
computer where it is up loadable into your charting software.
Historical Prices
MRI has historical futures data going back to Aug 1995 available
to our subscribers in the Daily Futures Files.
This is available in the 10 different formats. We also have
the past 3 months worth of options prices in the Daily
Options Files.
Life of contract
You can get life of contract data by using Custom Charts
or by going to the daily chart and statistics page for the commodity contract.
To do this in custom charts, change the "Prices On" selection to "Asc File".
This will give you the life of the contract which can be uploaded into
spreadsheets such as Excel or Lotus notes. Also by using the Custom Charts
you can get up to 25 years on a Monthly Nearest chart by again changing the Prices On
to either Decimal File or Integer File.
Data Formats
MRI currently has 10 end of day formats of data available.
If we do not have the format of your choice let us know what it is
and we will try and add it. We can only replicate the format if it is in
ascii text. This means that you can copy and paste a line of the file into
the email. If you can do this we can replicate it.
Below is a quick snapshot of the 10 formats and a short summary at the bottom.
Y - is the cash contract.
{F G H J K M N Q U V X Z} - {Jan ... Dec}
dvl - is the total Volume and Open Interest for the commodity for the previous days trading.
The date in the example is March 5th 1997.
The data is always "Open High Low Close" with volume and open interest
when applicable.
Data Format Help Page - Options
MRI currently lists the last 3 months of options prices in the
Daily Options File, inside the Daily Files selection of Market Overview.
The format for this data is similar to the futures. The first 2 characters
are the commodity code. In this case AD is the Australian Dollar.
The 3rd character is the contract month. F for January.
Next is the strike price of the call C or the put P.
The second column is the date of the price followed by the open
high low and close.
The "s" after the close stands for "settle", which is the official close of the day.
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