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This menu bar represents the same menu bar found when you're logged into our Account & Trading platform.
To view the details of each section, please select/click the desired menu choice.
The QUOTES & RESEARCH Menu Tab
[The Account menu has 6 choices: Quotes, Quote List, Charts, News, Research & Market Info.]
Quotes Tutorial
The Quotes menu offers several choices to view current futures & futures options price data.
Important: To access quotes or charts for a market that trades in both a pit and an electronic session, you must enter an "@" sign in front of the contact symbol to designate the electronic session. For example, the pit session symbol for July'09 Corn is C9N. To obtain a quote or chart for the electronic/night session for corn, enter the symbol as @C9N.
Enter a futures or futures options symbol in the ' Detailed Quotes ' section for a live, flash quote as shown below.
If you are unsure of the symbol for a particular commodity, click on the 'Symbol Lookup' link to the right of the symbol entry box.
The next screen that opens will allow you to choose the parameters of the commodity futures contract your are interested in. To access the desired symbol and also a live quote, click the "Futures Quote" button. To bring up a list of all of the available option strike prices for the contract your are interested in, click the "Composite Options" button.
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The ' Composite Futures Quotes ' section will provide a live snapshot of all the current contract months of the commodity chosen. Use this screen to verify which contract month has the most trading volume / open interest. Click on the contract month symbol you are interested in for a detailed, live quote.
Please note, this screen will not automatically update. Click the 'Refresh Quotes' link to update the price data to the current market prices.
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The ' Option Chains ' section provides all of the tradable strike prices for the market & contract month/year selected. The symbol column represents the root futures symbol plus a C (Call) or P (Put) and the corresponding strike price. Click on the symbol/strike price for a live, detailed price quote.
Please note, this screen will not automatically update. Click the 'Refresh Quotes' link to update the price data to the current market prices.
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