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Futures Data and Features
eSignal has everything futures traders need:
- The lowest cost among the competition
- CME Group Globex Fee Waiver New!
- Reliable, fast, streaming, real-time prices from U.S., Canadian, South American, European and Asian futures exchanges, including the CME Globex and E-Minis, CBOT Mini-Sized Futures, NYMEX miNYs and Single Stock Futures, as well as Forex and nearly 800 market indices
- U.S. and international continuous contracts with an intuitive symbol format that makes it easy to follow the front and forward months without changing symbols with each contract expiration, plus ability to define the contract roll time. Read more about eSignal's continuous contracts.
- All our reliable international futures data, including EUREX and Euronext Commodities, the LME, Hannover Commodities Exchange, SIMEX, the Hong Kong Futures Exchange and ICE
- Daily and intraday charting with a library of technical indicators and 120 days to 2+ years of intraday data New!
- Powerful alerts to set limits on virtually every field or track percent change
- Compatibility with many third party software applications, including several designed specifically for futures traders
- Trading integration with leading futures brokers
- Futures-focused news and commentary
- marketprofile, a single window with automatic sizing, so you can see time / price opportunities (TPO) take shape at a glance, with volume profiles, TPO counts and summary, splits, chart auto-scaling and customizable tick increments, as well as many other features. Read more about eSignal's marketprofile window.
- Spreads in the Quote and Chart windows, as well as the Quoteboard, with the ability to make your own symbol-combining multiples. Read more about spreads in Quote and Chart windows.
- Spread engine capability for complex spreads and ratios, which allows you to control the decimal placement of the spread, including the display of the resulting symbol in some non-standard formats, such as treasuries and grains
- Quoteboard, which lets you to display the open, high, low, close, change and % change for multiple symbols and base the background color of each cell on Net Change, as well as customize the fields and field placement
- Forward and Yield Curves, a window type used by futures traders and broad market analysts to look at the comparative data across multiple futures contracts New!
- Forward Curves -- ability to see pricing on forward contracts for commodities; can act as unbiased predictors for better view of market trends
- Yield Curves -- typically used to verify the "shape" of the economy; if normal curve is present, long-term investment is rewarded and short-term bonds provide a lower yield; if inverted (higher yelds for near term), market at large is in an unusual state and cautionary investment approach is warranted
- Other futures-focused features:
- A Fast Market Indicator for spotting overly busy markets where you’re not guaranteed your trade will be filled
- Update of $PREM and $EPREM in real time
- Ability to view Contract Highs and Lows
- Point & Figure charts, including on tick charts Read more about Point & Figure.
- Electronic volume, a field that displays the real-time volume of electronically traded futures contracts, such as the E-Minis and that displays along with a column showing the standard Volume field, which will continue to display the prior day’s official volume
- Settlement price, a field that shows the official settlement price of the most recent trading session for each futures contract and that displays in its own column while the Last Price field shows new activity
- Settlement date, which displays the date associated with that settlement price; the settlement price and date help futures traders more readily see real-time versus "official" and / or prior-day prices
- Combined session symbols for joining into one the day and evening sessions for all symbols for domestic contracts that have both a day and night session
- Aggregate open interest, a set of symbols that allows users to view aggregate open interest for all active months of an individual contract
- Aggregate volume for display of the open interest symbols described previously, but showing most active contracts based on volume
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