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Quotes not Changing
You can get to your quotescreen page but you can't seem to change any
of the information on the page. However, when you come back
at a later period of time some of the changes have been made.
This is problem in a setting in the disk cache section of your internet browser.
Go into the section of your browser for clearing out your disk cache
and change the "documents in cache" settings from "once per session" to "every time".
We have help on how to do this in the Cached Pages help
page.
Latest Quotes
Latest quotes will give you the price of the commodity as it is now.
This includes all sessions of the market including Project A, Globex,
Nymex Access etc. Midwest quotes are 10 minutes delayed and New York
quotes are 30 minutes delayed.
End of Day Quotes
End of day quotes are the price of the commodity contract at the end of the
previous market close. The date will be listed at the top of your quotes page.
We update the database each night about 4:30pm Chicago time and at this point
the quote screens will give you the end of day prices.
Chart Links
If you click on the symbol of a quote it will take you to the chart of the contract.
An "end of day" quote will take you to the end of day daily chart and statistics and
a "latest quote" will take you to the intra day chart and statistics.
Adding a Futures Contract
To add a futures contracts you must enter the symbol of the contract you wish
to display. The symbol is made up of 3 parts. The commodity code, the contract
month and the expiration year.
Commodity Code
The first part of the symbol is the commodity code.
Eurodollars is ED, Corn is C .
For a complete listing of all the commodities we
cover with their commodity codes please refer to the
Commodities List.
Contract Month
The second part of the symbol is the month of expiration. This can be
one of the following 12 letters each corresponding to a different month.
Contract months - {F G H J K M N Q U V X Z} - {Jan ... Dec}.
Expiration Year
The third and final part of the symbol is the year of expiration. This is
a 1 digit abbreviation of the year of expiration.
2000 is 0, 2001 is 1, 2002 is 2 and so on.
So for example ....
Corn Dec 2000 - CZ0 Adding an Options Contract
The options symbol is made up of 4 parts. The commodity code, the contract
month, the strike price, and the call or put.
Commodity Code
The first part of the symbol is the commodity code.
Eurodollars is ED, Corn is C .
For a complete listing of all the commodities we
cover with their commodity codes please refer to the
Commodities List.
Contract Month
The second part of the symbol is the month of expiration. This can be
one of the following 12 letters each corresponding to a different month.
Contract months - {F G H J K M N Q U V X Z} - {Jan ... Dec}.
Options Strike Price
The third part of the options symbol is the options strike price. The
strike price is a 4 digit integer number. For example
Call or Put
The forth and final part of an options symbol is the call or put letter.
For options contract in this year, use 'C' for calls and 'P' for puts.
For options contract for next year, Jan 2001 and forwards, use 'D' for calls
and 'Q' for puts. And for options contract 2 years in the future use
'E' for calls and 'R' for puts.
So for example ....
Soybeans (S) Nov (X) 2000 575-0P (5750) (P) - SX5750P Note The "y" after the last price means the options contract
has not yet opened for the day, and the price listed is the previous
sessions closing price. We do not database end of day options prices
so all options prices are the latest available quotes.
T-Bond June 2001 - USM1
Eurodollar March 2003 - EDH3
Wheat (W) Mar (H) 2001 350-0C (3500) (D) - WH3500D
Cocoa (CC) Sep (U) 2001 900P (9000) (Q) - CCU9000Q