I am not used to advertise but I am always shocked at the number of people getting crappy( esignal ) or expensive ( CQG ) charts to trade stuff like ag or energy spreads. I use X trader as a trading front end so I needed a charting platform for exchange supported spreads, and barchart trader is just perfect for the incredibly high price of 129$ per month( plus CME data fees of course...). The delayed version is free. http://www.barchart.com/trader/ Here you have real spread market charts( not difference between outrights ) with volume, news and even weather maps. The charts are ultra clean and I find the quality of datas on point( never found discrepancies with my statements settlements for example ). Apart from the noticeable absence of the crush spread, every inter-contract spread are available. Just thought not that many people were aware of this alternative. I have no link to Barchart of course.
In addition, Barchart manages the network connectivity for Sierra Chart: https://www.sierrachart.com/SupportBoard.php?ThreadID=11631#P50160 Unfortunately, Sierra Chart does not support exchanged traded spreads yet. Otherwise, there may be a cheaper alternative: http://www.sierrachart.com/SupportBoard.php?ThreadID=12373 Just my two cents.
Thanks for this, I don't like the spread functionality in the platform I am using. This might help me out quite a bit, even with the free delayed data.
Do you think the crush spread is lacking because of the CME's "synthetic" futures crush contract? http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agr...soybean-crush_quotes_settlements_futures.html Just curious. I don't know what the purpose of the CME product is. Maybe as a benchmark? It doesn't have any activity, but BarChart does carry the quotes.
It also offers a crush spread chart, albeit using the less accurate 1:1:1 ratio and just the front month: Chart - Settings - Spread Equations - Popular Equations