Historical data & daily updates International Commodities

It is time to give yourself an Unfair Advantage:

Clean Data
CSI vs Other Data Firms
   
Futures Magazine’s September 1999 issue featured a cover story about the accuracy of the top end-of-day data providers for investors. CSI was the undeniable champion in terms of data accuracy.  Click here for more information.

All data suitable for use in  or TradeStation.

What Unfair Advantage (UA) is a comprehensive  

Unfair Unfair Unfair Advantage (UA) is a comprehensive end of day downloading and distribution system from the largest end-of-day vendor in the world, Commodity Systems, Inc (CSI). UA is provided on CD-ROM and includes software as well as a HUGE historical database of cash markets and individual futures contracts covering more than 900 symbols across 80 futures exchanges. Click here to download full contract details.  Now US and UK and Canadian stocks (17,000 world stocks and 15,000 mutual funds) and options data is also available as well as a comprehensive database of timely US government and US commerce data on bonds, employment, productivity, and federal fund rates.  Full listing of all futures, stocks, indices, mutual funds, etc available - click here.

Updating: Data updating may be done in three ways, either by direct dial, automated download through your Internet Web Browser (Netscape or Explorer) or direct Internet connection through your Internet Socket. Unfair Advantage picks up daily updates for your level of subscription and automatically collects data for all the days from your last collection, for up to two months.

Each daily update (of all symbols) takes about one minute to download once connection is made, with database updating time varying with the size and nature of the custom portfolios you ask the system to update for you.

Data Manipulation: The data is stored and updated within the UA environment and may be translated out into various formats and updated daily, these are called portfolios. You can create custom portfolios comprising markets of your choice. You can chop and change portfolios whenever and however you like because the historical data is maintained internally by UA. You can specify exactly how you want your portfolios, including Spot Continuations, Smoothed Perpetual Contracts®, Back Adjusted and Forward Adjusted Contracts as well as specifying how many contracts forward you wish to follow.

Data Formats: UA can update your portfolios in any of the following industry standard formats: CSI; MetaStock® (CompuTrack); ASCII comma, space or tab delimited; Excel®; Lotus®; Paradox®; dBase® and Access®. Portfolios may be updated simultaneously in various formats, either within one custom portfolio or across many.

Breadth & Depth of Coverage: The World Futures service IS the broadest end of day futures data service you will find anywhere! (That’s why its called Unfair Advantage.) Covering over 800 symbols and updating more than 2,200 futures contracts and cash markets daily, this service covers all the markets even the most ardent trader would consider. That’s right, all contracts for all symbols covered!

Accuracy: Data may be getting cheaper, but it doesn’t come any cleaner than this. Compiled from a broad cross-section of sources, all data is scanned electronically and manually so errors are screened out before 
you download.  Click here for more information.

Monthly Newsletter: Although all error corrections are automatically posted, this is the only service that provides a monthly newsletter listing errors corrected in the database to ensure that you know exactly what’s going on. Click here to view a sample.

Subscription Levels, Licensing and Pricing:  click here to review all details.

Hardware Requirements:

Pentium 200Mhz or faster processor
64Mb RAM
CD-ROM
Mouse
Windows
® NT/95/98/2000/ME 
14.4 Kb Modem or direct LAN internet connection
S VGA Monitor or better
A minimum 256 colour desktop setting
Disk space requirements:
Software, 50MB; 
Data, 166 MB (for full database). 
Futures only, 80 MB + 8 MB annual growth; 
Stocks, 300 MB + 56 MB annual growth; 
Options, 60 MB + 30 MB annual growth

Note: The software and data is disabled should the database fall more
than 2 months out of
date.

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