Futures

The Futures menu provides historical prices and the current term structure for an asset. This menu is accessible from the Main menu by typing futures and pressing the enter key - or with the absolute path:

/futures

Usage

There are three basic functions within this menu Search, Historical and Curve.

Search

Search allows the user to find which instruments are supported, and can be searched by the description. For example, searching for silver will return these results:

search -d silver

To view an entire category, attach the --category flag to the function and select using the arrow keys.

search --category currency

Curve

Both curve and historical use the ticker symbol shown by the search function, for example, to see a chart of the current Eurodollar Futures term structure, simply enter:

curve GE

The raw data can be printed as a table or exported to a file, by attaching the optional arguments: --raw, or, --export {filetype}. For example, Global Emissions Offset Futures:

curve GEO --raw

Historical

The continuous chart is displayed with the historical command + the symbol. To see the optional arguments available for the command, deploy the -h flag. For example, the Eurodollar Futures contract for December 2024 expiry is displayed with:

historical GE -s 2015-01-01 -e 2024-12

Multiple continuous charts can be plotted on the same chart by using a comma-separated list:

historical GE,ZQ -s 2007-01-01