Ag WorkstationThis version of FutureSource Workstation is specially suited for those involved in the agricultural market. It includes data unique to that market, such as Dow Jones AgriWire and weather maps showing such agriculturally related information as rainfall forecasts and soil moisture. Its modularity also allows you to include tools that fit your individual needs, such as seasonal charts to gauge market direction influenced by prevailing forces over a specified time frame.
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AlertsHave your finger on the pulse of the market with immediate information about moves, trades and trends. Real-time optical, audible, email or printed alerts keep you informed when a price, time, condition or news item is affecting your portfolio.
Charts
Workstation has tick, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly and continuation charts, as well as the ability to create chartable expressions (mathematical calculations that use one or more contracts, numerical constants and simple mathematical operators [ + - * / ] ) on the fly and apply multiple cart overlays. It offers up to 35 years of historical data. The charting features multiple plot types, 54 indicators and a complete set of drawing tools, as well as the ability to create studies on studies and studies on spreads with no programming required.
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Workstation’s charting supports custom data sets, allowing users to bring their customers’ specialized data into Workstation, where they can then perform complete technical analysis on it. This external / custom data feature supports Excel, as well as custom-separated values (CSV) and tab-delimited files. It also supports aggregation of daily, weekly, monthly, tick and intraday data, including “smart” aggregating for viewing intraday as daily and so forth. |
Compatibility with Citrix
Corporate users will find that Workstation works well in the Citrix environment, which allows them remote access to applications and over low-bandwidth connections.
Forward Curve Charts
Forward Curve Charts provide the user with the ability to view forward curves for commodities. Forward curves can act as unbiased predictors and allow the user to better see where the market is trending and look for opportunities in price-sensitive investments. This includes current and historical curves, both in chart form and in data table format, as well as multiple plot styles. A complete list of drawing tools and studies can be applied.
Users can choose how their daily charts are drawn with an option for having Settlement or Close represented in the chart.
Custom Symbol Library
This library allows users to create custom symbols, such as strips, spreads and unique formulas. Users will benefit from its organization of the symbols for easy reference. This is also where they can store symbols they assign to the custom data sets in Workstation’s charting that links these symbols to the chart, so they can perform complete technical analysis on them.
Custom Workspaces
Workstation offers an unlimited number of windows in a flexible workspace environment. Modularity allows you to personalize your Workstation with the data and features you need. Create multiple pages in your workspace to hold different types of data. When saved, they can be retrieved by any Workstation user, allowing you to share layouts and windows with others in your office or group via email from within the Workstation application.
In addition, Workstation can support multiple monitors, so you can spread several workspaces across them. You can also drag / drop and copy / paste between charts and price pages.
Data from the World's Exchanges
Providing access to more than 125 exchanges worldwide, Workstation offers reliable, streaming, real-time futures, options (including regionals), and equities (including regionals) data directly from exchanges in the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia / Pacific, tick and historical data, foreign exchange, treasuries and hundreds of world indices.
Workstation's multi-contributor cash foreign exchange feed comprises individual feeds from major money center banks around the world, and the data is checked for accuracy.
The data that FutureSource delivers is enhanced for improved performance during peak market volume periods, ensuring that the feed stays ahead of the ever-increasing volume curve. Workstation handles some of its components in a multi-threaded fashion. Additionally, for users with dual core processors, Workstation uses CPU core resources efficiently.
View a complete list of available exchanges.
Data Export and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Data export allows the transfer of data points in a flat file to Excel or other spreadsheet applications in a tabular format, including those from all studies applied to a chart,.OR.data can be easily imported to an Excel spreadsheet using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). Portfolio tracking, strip calculators and risk analysis can all be tracked as the data in them continues to update in real time.
eSignal QLink is a Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) add-on service that makes it even quicker and simpler to download real-time, streaming data into Excel worksheets. QLink comes with a toolbar that automatically integrates with Excel, so you can easily access the many different customizable request types. This feature makes time historical bar data available, as well as Time & Sales information, through a DDE interface.
Data Table
The Data Table is designed to display the underlying data for one contract, usually in connection with a chart, and updates in real time. You may also export data from a Data Table for use in another application. Data Tables can be viewed using tick, intraday, daily, weekly or monthly data.
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Energy Workstation This industry-leading system provides crude, gas and power traders with data and functionality crucial to their industry at an attractive cost and supported by a team responsive to the needs of professional energy traders. Available data, news and features include:
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Fixed Pages
Fixed Page News contains page-based news data, where a specific story is always referenced by the news service using the same number. Workstation keeps an historical database of Fixed News pages, allowing you to scroll back and view approximately 15 previous releases of the same page number. You may view additional parts of the story, scroll through previous issues of the story or scroll through prior stories viewed in the Fixed Page window. FutureSource also offers customizable Fixed Pages that can be tailored for the markets you're in.
News
FutureSource Workstation offers a variety of comprehensive real-time news services plus proprietary editorial analysis from Dow Jones Commodities News, Platts and others. Use the expanded search feature to find news by keywords, categories and news services or headlines that appeared at a specific date and time. You can also monitor headlines and details of news stories, search for text within the news or trigger an alert when specific text appears in a breaking story.
View a comprehensive listing of all the news services you can add to Workstation.
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Options With Option Boards, you can view options, along with the underlying data, in a variety of formats. Workstation uses the Black Scholes model to display options and includes all the Greeks. It allows you to:
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OptionSource Workstation
OptionSource is a premium Workspace designed specifically for options strategy, tracking and risk management in a standalone application or integrated with your Workstation software. It is divided into two pages, one for making “what-if” calculations and monitoring positions and the other for analyzing the effects of changes in market conditions and price over time.
Find out more about OptionSource Workstation.
Quotes Grid
This format for displaying prices allows you to organize contracts in customizable cells. The contract is at the top of the grid, with the Open, High, Low, Last and Net Change fields displayed below. You can modify the properties of the Quotes Grid to show Candlesticks or to flash a color change to indicate up / down movement whenever new ticks are received.
Quotes Sheets
In an Excel-like fashion, each “tabbed” Quote Sheet created has 3 tabs (Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet 3 by default) that can be renamed to suit your purposes. Each tab can contain unique symbols and display different column headings (60+ choices), as well as multiple symbols per row, with the use of Column Groups. Each quote window holds its own individual properties, including color and font settings.
QuoTrek
This affordable add-on service to Workstation provides mobile quotes, charts and news via your favorite handheld device, so you can stay connected to the markets when you’re away from the office.
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RSS Reader
Workstation lets users organize their RSS subscriptions (Internet news feeds) within Workstation and easily integrate them inside their custom workspaces so that they can view their RSS content alongside their Quote windows and Charts.
Seasonal Charts
A seasonal chart allows you to overlay data for a particular symbol or symbols for specific years and month ranges (seasons) to gauge the direction a market usually moves under typical prevailing forces over a specified time frame.
Strip Calculator
The strip calculator features easy input of just the root symbol, bringing up all contracts and showing approximate values for those not yet traded.
Time & Sales
This feature allows you to view all tick-by-tick information for a symbol, as traded during a particular time period to verify quotes. It accurately displays all trades as they happen from the exchange, accurate placement of insertions and deletions and specific data, such as only bids / asks from a specified date or trades from a specified time frame.
Weather MapsWorkstation provides access to a wide variety of weather maps from WSI, which can be especially helpful in trading futures commodities. Thousands of professionals around the world rely on this comprehensive set of static and animated radar maps. WSI offers multiple weather map packages, covering areas all over the globe, including U.S. Agriculture, U.S. Energy, Europe Energy, and World Coffee Crop.