Market Data Unfair Advantage Posting Status Robert 2016

Support Blog

The support blog is a guide for default set ups, fixes and recommendations for Unfair Advantage and other Trading Programs.

How to extract data with the Unfair Advantage History version?

Install Unfair Advantage and type in your user ID and user Number.
AFTER the first daily download you should receive the ‘Historical Market Database Portfolios’ window. If you don’t receive the mentioned window, click PORTFOLIO and choose Historical Database Portfolios from the menu.

Click the NEXT button.

Check the box to agree to the terms and conditions.

Click the NEXT button.

Choose the package you subscribe to. In this case we used the North American Futures.

When choosing North American Futures, 3 options are offered:

  • Floor and Spot ( contracts include RTH bars, Cash contracts, and FOREX Crossrates )
  • Electronic ( contracts include ETH bars )
  • Combined ( contracts include RTH combined with ETH bars )

Find them along the left side of the window.  Select 1 or several to extract the data you’re interested in.

Click the NEXT button.

Choose the file format and data period. In this case we used the Excel file format and left the default setting for the data period.
Click the NEXT button.

Click the BUILD button.

Unfair Advantage will start retrieving the files and after completion of the process it will ask you for the name and export folder.
Type in a name for your portfolio. In this case we used the default name.

Click the OK button.

Unfair Advantage starts writing the files to your hard drive. This process might take some time to finish.
The export folder, if not changed, will be \ua\Files\.

Unfair Advantage build x.118 available

Unfair Advantage x.118 build

Changes:

  • Unadjusted Closing prices now incorporate Historical Adjustments that affect price precision.
  • Database Integrity Search errors handled.
  • Historical Contracts in protfolios are no longer rewritten when corrections are received for unassociated contracts.
  • Charts no longer freeze when added to Charts Portfolio.
  • New backadjust option for Representative Prices: Close Old Contract, Close New Contract Next Day ( formerly Close Old Contract, Close New Contract Same Day ).
  • Supports AmiBroker 64-bit Version ( must not coexist with 32-bit version .
  • Bureau of Labor, Federal Reserve, Construction Spending, Personal Income Data now updating properly.

Unfair Advantage build x.117 available

Unfair Advantage x.117 build

Changes:

  • Amibroker Portfolio Exporting bug corrected. 
  • CSIM/MetaStock file management deletion bug corrected.
  • Perpetuals can now be set to look forward up to 15 months out.
  • New contract rolling schedule located off the Portfolio menu.
  • Fortran Back-Adjuster now strips out reconciling records that trail expiry.
  • Markets with only options are identified in the factsheet’s last date field, where as the previous version would display a -1.
  • Rolling by Date with representative prices set to Close Old Contract, Close New Contract same day now uses the close of the new contract in the close of the day before the roll.
    This change was done to match the results of the Fortran Back-Adjuster, which handles this in a more correct way.When backadjusting ED

    The close value of the backadjusted file on 31st Jan should be = Sep 11 close = 99.480.
    The old adjuster does this correctly, the C++ adjuster gives a value of 99.465.
    Future #141 ED_5320B: Back-Adjusted of Eurodollar-3 Mth-Globex-(Floor+Electronic) 

    Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec
    1 day before the end of month
    5 months prior

    BEFORE
    20110131, 201106, 99.475, 99.480, 99.455, 99.465,
    20110201, 201109, 99.485, 99.485, 99.455, 99.465,

    AFTER
    20110131, 201106, 99.490, 99.495, 99.470, 99.480,
    20110201, 201109, 99.485, 99.485, 99.455, 99.465,

    Here are the closes of the NEW 201109 contract

    20110131, 201109, 99.500, 99.505, 99.475, 99.480,  (< now used )
    20110201, 201109, 99.485, 99.485, 99.455, 99.465, (< was used  )

    It now uses the close for the Sep 11 on the 31st, not the close on the 1st.
    It was duplicating the close over those 2 days.

Unfair Advantage build x.116 available

Unfair Advantage x.116c build

Changes:

  • New Back-Adjuster option to roll on a percent of the nearest Open Interest and/or Volume.
  • Also available for use with the Nth Nearest Future Contract.
  • Rolling on Open Interest and/or Volume is now limited to the next nearest year forward.
  • New historical database portfolio builder.

Unfair Advantage build x.115 available

Unfair Advantage x.115 build

Changes:

  • COT mapping to all symbols more comprehensive.
  • Gann Contract’s previous contract specification is corrected.
  • Reseting of Days before expiration has been fixed.
  • MNI9 LME Nickel 3 mnth 24hr adjusted against British Pound prior to 19880201.
  • Factsheet improvements with Last Price, Percent Change, Last Date and Volume options.
  • Unadjusted Settlement or Last Trade included in Continuous Computed Contract Data tables.
  • Unadjusted Settlement or Last Trade field delivered through API has integrity ensured.
  • Unadjusted Close included in Split and/or Dividend adjusted Stock Data tables.
  • Stock Index Component Markets are now available.

Downloading Issues

CSI has been upgrading to a new 10 MBit fiber internet connection. We have moved to a larger internet backbone increasing our connection speed by about 30 percent. The down time experienced was due to the change from one service to another, which unfortunately took slightly longer then expected.

The service should be up and running.
However if you still experience any issues please change the IP Address in Unfair Advantage.

Double click Launch UA on your Windows Desktop,
select PREFERENCES along the top,
to the left click INTERNET right below DOWNLOAD PREFERENCES,
change the PRIMARY SERVER NAME
from ua.csidata.com to either

63.138.17.102     OR    63.138.17.103

Click the OK button to save the changes.
Hit the DOWNLOAD DATA or GET DATA button along the top.

In a few days you are advised to go back into UA | PREFERENCES | INTERNET and click the RESET button to restore the original settings. Click OK to save the changes.

Thanks you for your patience in this matter.

Sincerely,
The CSI Technical Support Team

Unfair Advantage build x.114 available (only Beta testing)

Unfair Advantage x.114 build was not released.

Unfair Advantage build x.113 available

Unfair Advantage x.113 build

Changes:

  • Market Speed Indicator added.
  • Fast Studies now incorporated into Market Scanner table.
  • New API Property: ContractExpiryDate

Unfair Advantage build x.112 available

Unfair Advantage x.112 build

Changes:

  • Now provides easier multi-selection of contracts and markets.
    Click here to learn more.
  • Now provides market symbol linking to extend history by linking one symbol with another.
    Click here to learn more.
  • Now provides contract expiry calculations from a specific date of the month with offsets.
    Click here to learn more.
  • No long fails when editing a portfolio entry that has a chart displayed.
  • Study scaling has been improved to handle currencies.
  • MACD now has histogram.
  • New XML fields in API for GetSubscriberMarket and GetSubscriberContract indicating the date of a correction or adjustment, as well as an update.
  • New API property that provides Average Annual Volume for futures. ( Property: AvgAnnualVolume )
  • Historical adjustments are now applied to futures options.
  • Provides for the ability to have futures settlement prices placed in Electronic market records. 
    This setting is located in Preferences – Historical Adjustments.

Unfair Advantage build x.111 available

Unfair Advantage x.111 build

Changes:

  • Includes Contract expiration date rule editor for use with Backadjusted and Nearest Futures continuous contracts.
  • EZDownloader now has release scheduler.
  • EZDownlaoder now has an API and can be called from scripts.
  • Tiled windows no longer revert to maximized when closing one of the charts.
  • Stock Factsheet now includes last price and percent change.
  • Tables properly refresh after database refresh.
  • Deletion of charting objects has been implemented.