The Chart Books contain the lead two contracts from each commodity traded in the commodity group.

Landscape Chart Books are size 11" by 8.5" printed on a piece of paper similar to the "US Charts" paper publication. On a daily landscape Chart Book this accounts for a period of 12 months, weekly landscape Chart Books cover 5 years and monthly landscape Chart Books cover over 20 years of trading activity.

Portrait Chart Books are size 8.5" by 11" printed on a piece of paper, similar to the old style "Commodity Perspective" paper publication. These more emphasize recent price movements. On a daily portrait Chart Book this accounts for a period of 8 months, weekly portrait Chart Books cover 3.5 years and monthly portrait Chart Books cover over 15 years of trading activity.

Daily Chart Books contain a daily contract open/high/low/close barchart with total volume and open interest for the commodity. The daily Chart Books also contain the group technical indictors.

Weekly Chart Books contain a weekly nearest open/high/low/close barchart with total volume and open interest for the commodity.

Monthly Chart Books contain a monthly nearest open/high/low/close barchart.

Each commodity we feature also has its own Chart Book found on its own page. This is an open/high/low/close barchart with a 9 and 18 day moving average overlay with a 14 day relative strength index and a 14 day %K and %D stochastic on the bottom of the chart. This is plotted for each contract featured on the commodity. It is also contains the technical indicators for the commodity.

The composite file is a ziped file containing the eight group Chart Books for the format. The composite Chart Books are in ZIP format and will require a complementary unzipper, such as Winzip or PKzip.

To view the Chart Books you need Adobe Reader. This is program is included in the later browsers, but for earlier browsers the Adobe Reader is available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

Go through the simple instructions on the Adobe page and download the program according to your system. Once you have downloaded the program, find it on your computer. This file normally begins with "AR*.exe".

Once you find this file remember the location and install this onto your computer by running the program. For example if you have Windows "double click" on the file. This will automatically update all recent browsers with Adobe Reader. When you click on a Chart Book Adobe Reader will pick up the Chart Book and display it.

Chart Book Problems

You download the Chart Book and nothing happens. This is usually caused by downloading the Chart Books into a different directory on your computer and Adobe Reader is not picking up the Chart Book. Find the Chart Book files (*.pdf) on your computer and open the Chart Books up offline in Adobe Reader. This is a common problem with AOL users, and the only solution I know of is to download the Chart Books, log off the Internet and open the Chart Books up offline.

Another reason for this problem can be that you already have old versions of the Chart Books on your computer. To clear out old Chart Books from your computer do a search for "*.pdf" and delete the old Chart Books. For MRI subscribers the Chart Books will begin with "mr*.pdf". Delete these from your computer and then try downloading the Chart Books again.

Another solution to this problem is to clear out your disk and memory cache. We have help on this in the Cached Pages help page.

Should you still have any problems with the Chart Books, Contact Barchart with the problem you are having including the following information: The name of the Chart Book file you are trying to download, the version of Adobe you are using, and your internet browser. Also, indicate whether you have ever got a Chart Book to work in the past and what happens when you try to download the Chart Books now.