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For end of day data we recommend Unfair Advantage® from CSI Data. CSI provides the most accurate data available for position traders across futures, commodities and share markets in the world. Its historical database provides data going back to the beginnings of each contract or you can choose the option of subscribing to the last 10 years' data only.

We have used Unfair Advantage for our own trading since 1996 and have seen the range of products and services expand and improve each year. CSI continues to provide a low-cost stock, commodities, options, indices, funds, COT, and economic data service for the analysis of financial markets. The data cover worldwide futures as well as US stocks and also provides powerful charting software at an unbeatable price.

Futures Magazine rated Unfair Advantage®  "Excellent" in their February '03 review. Get the Unfair Advantage today, and witness CSI's supreme accuracy. Keep track of your market performance and ongoing account progress with the new Position Manager. It can manage world futures, U.K. or North American stocks, futures options, index options or mutual funds. You will be appraised of your account value moment-by-moment and/or day-by-day in any currency, regardless of host country.  Click here to order now.

 Here are some of the features of CSI’s Unfair Advantage:

·        Charting: All futures, commodities, options throughout the world together with UK and US stocks may be drawn using bar, line and candlestick charts. A selection of indicators can be added including Bollinger Bands, ADX and Average true range. Users can see not only today's summary data reports, but may also review the extensive history of any series in chart form or as a numerical table.

Charting with UA is arranged to assist the trader in comparing one market with another, and lets you simultaneously display studies superimposed over the data. There are many ways in which one might present a chart: the bar frequency of any given time series can range from daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly to annually. Lines may be drawn in selected colours and the charts may be annotated. Study curves may accompany the pricing data, and can be colour-coded as preferred.

·        Position Manager: Part of the Unfair Advantage® (UA) software, this program was engineered to accommodate multi-national investments. Values can be seamlessly calculated in the currency of choice, regardless of the currencies used by world exchanges for reporting your various positions. Position Manager processes data in Euros, Pounds, Dollars, Roubles and more without missing a beat.

Enter or import your portfolio, then automatically keep track of winning and losing trades, open and closed account equity, current positions and more. Records export to a spreadsheet or to UA's Trading System Performance Evaluator where they can help you make better trading decisions.  Click here to order now.

·        Multi-market analyser: This analysis product is designed to help you trade many markets as a correlated group. It functions as a natural tool for evaluating market dynamics. MMA statistically determines which markets are leaders, which are followers, which are correlated and which are redundant. Then it lays out its understanding of the current econometric picture with an emphasis on probable direction.

·        MarketScanner™: This tool enables the trader to write custom indicators and studies to follow and predict market action. The analyst can capture market statistics on stocks by exchange identification (NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, all mutual funds, etc.) to sort and filter this data to reveal a list of stocks or commodities that meet a particular criterion. For example, one might want to reduce a list of stocks down to all stocks that are priced between $10 and $20 per share, or all stocks which have just risen by over 25% in a single day, or all stocks that have just broken out of a 5 or 10-day low or high. The Market Scanner offers a very simple way to examine large volumes of data with relative ease. Your indicators can be written in VisualBasic or Perl, both of which are built into the UA product.

·        Market Facts, Alert & Event Calendar: a highly informative set of documents is provided within UA, including the Online Factsheet, the Alert Calendar and the Event Calendar. Each of these is accessible through UA's Database menu. Rare, but important historical facts concerning particular markets are readily available for students of the markets. View the online factsheet for a full census of all possible choices that CSI reports. These may be sorted by exchange, CSI number, symbol, name, trading units, trading currency, etc. to uncover important details about the inventory of markets.  UA's Alert Calendar gives information such as the last trading day, first notice day and pertinent market details to keep you informed of market details such as the risk of delivery, etc.  The Event Calendar tracks world holidays that may affect any given market.

·        Seasonal Index: Unlike other seasonal tools, UA's Seasonal Index Study depicts seasonal tendencies by employing forward-looking analysis for individual markets. It is unbiased in that it does not use the future to force the index to appear like the past. UA's Seasonal Index is cumulative - based upon daily increments of data by adopting a 251-trading-day year. This unique formulation allows it to learn over time. The statistical nature of this study makes it a helpful tool in predicting future market movement.

How to Order

You may order Unfair Advantage® from CSI by clicking here and downloading an Order form. Please do NOT submit any credit card information with this form. CSI will contact you by phone, email, or fax if payment information is needed.

If you would just like some more information on CSI’s charting and data products, please click here.

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Whilst Unfair Advantage gives the trader the facility to plug the data into several charting and trading platforms, you should also be aware that Track 'n Trade Pro provides data as part of its service. If you want an all-inclusive charting and data package for futures and commodities, then select Track 'n Trade Pro. If you want more markets (Worldwide futures, shares, all Exchanges) and the flexibility to select your own compatible trading software then select Unfair Advantage from CSI.