Type in the symbol of the contract, followed by the month and year. Please take a look at the example on the right (ESM14).

To add two or more contracts at the same time, type in an available cell/field a "composite" expression - e.g. ZC(Z14, Z15) - and press Enter; this will add both December Electronic Corn contracts in two adjacent rows.

Typing ZC1- will add the front month for the contract ZC (ZCK14 in April 2014). If you are using the "perpertual" contracts, they will always automatically load the fronth month, when the contract expires. You can also use 2-, 3-,... for the following months (in our example these will load ZCN14, respectively ZCU14).

In order to add an option, you need to start to type in the symbol of the underlying contract (ZCK14 for example), and further:

• Typing a P or C, as in ZCK14P or ZCK14C will display the strikes
• Typing ZCK14{ will display the chains

The options "chain" (name/facility) was introduced in version 6.0 of our application, to offer support for various options types.

The application supports the following options-style qualifiers (always placed between curly brackets): A – American, E – European, V – Volatility, C – MidCurve, F – EndOfMonth, D – Daily, G – Average, N – ShortCrop, P – 50MW, S – CSO (Calendar Spread Option), W – Weekly, M – Monthly, Y – Yearly and T – ShortTerm.

Please note that by default, when no option type is requested explicitly, the platform defaults to American-style.

Take a look at the examples on the right.

After typing a fully-qualified contract followed by colon, such as ESM14: - if applicable - a list of all the exchange-traded strategies having the already-typed contract as first leg will appear.

An example would be ESM14:H15[EQ] (the last qualifier marks the strategy type).

Typing S.M will display the known stocks starting with M. Please take a look at the example on the right.

For example, type in ES (the E-Mini S&P 500 Electronic symbol); following a short (typing) pause, when the auto-complete pop-up appears, you can do one of the following:

• Add a different month by using the arrow keys on your keyboard or your mouse (followed by Enter or left-click).


• Add multiple contracts by holding down the Ctrl key and selecting the contracts by left-click; this will work for random entries in the popup. However, you can select contigous entries by holding down Shift, and then clicking on the first and the last contract from the series you want to keep.


• Use the last Calendar Strip entry to add all the available items from the list.

You can also combine the symbols we presented in the previous section and search for the available Puts for different chain types. Take a look at the example on the right - the multiple selection will include different option styles.