Forward Curves - Help!

Dear All,

I am looking for a piece of software with which i can generate "forward curves" for commods such as Oil, Gold, Silver, Cotton etc along with currencies (which would use the Nymex, ICE & CME exchanges).

Effectively it plots a chart of the closing prices of the commods & futures to give you an idea of the sentiment of traders in the future, a very useful tool!

I know bloomberg has that capability, but i felt that surely there would be something less "hardcore" with which we can acheive the same functionality?

I have tried esignal (which cannot), and use Metatrader (which cannot).

Your help is appreciated!

Vikas Shah

So all you need is to plot closing prices? You can do that in Excel or any other similar software..OpenOffice etc

Just get the data, put it in a spreadsheet and create a graph out of it, very simple.

I fail to understand why you need a separate program to do this. To make sure i understand you, you want a commodity chart with an overlay of it's future's chart? First, i don't really understand why you can't look at the commodity's chart then the futures chart separately. Second, most charting services seem to have a "compare to" feature...you can use that to overlay anything you want. barcharts.com has a custom chart feature that will work for you.

Plotting daily closing prices is exactly the same as a daily line chart. You just want to super-impose line charts of one over another?

I think Tradestation can do that.

Or, as said before, you could just export the data into excel. Of course you have to have access to the data first. Do you already have a broker? If so, maybe they have the requisite software.