New Features in TradeStation
A number of enhancements have been released to the Global TradeStation platform in February 2016.
INTER-MARKET SPREADS NOW AVAILABLE
Global Trading now offers one of the most traded inter-market spreads allowing you to easily trade the spreads between Wheat and Corn futures traded on CBOT.
Brief explanation about inter-market spreads
When markets are uncertain as they certainly are here at the beginning of 2016, it makes good sense to focus on relative value plays. One value play which is gaining increasing popularity is the spreads between Wheat and Corn.
Wheat/Corn spread
The Wheat/Corn spread reflects the supply and demand developments between these two major crops. After three years of good crop weather, global inventories are booming, both crops are trading their lowest since 2010 and hedge funds have amassed huge short positions in them. In the coming months, focus will switch to the new seasonís production and farmersí planting intentions and weather developments will also help set the tone in the market. During this time the range-bound nature seen in recent weeks is expected to continue and this should offer some interesting trading opportunities.î
Trading Intra-market spreads
The Wheat/Corn spread contract is available under ZW (ZWH6-H6 for the March contract for example):
NO SLIP FX STOP ORDERS TO BE DISCONTINUED
From 12 February 2016, the ëStopí order type available for major FX crosses (for trade sizes below 3 Million) will be discontinued. ëStop if Bidí and ëStop if Offeredí orders which trigger on the respective Bid or Ask price are available instead.
Please cancel any open ‘Stop’ orders or change them to ‘Stop if Bid/Offered’ orders before 12 February 2016.
ULTRA 10-YEAR US TREASURY AND EURO BONO FUTURES NOW AVAILABLE
Global Trading now offers:
- Ultra 10 year US Treasury Note traded on CBOT
- Euro BONO futures (Spanish 10 year Government Futures) traded on EUREX – FBON
- MSCI World Index (EUR) traded on Eurex
NEW IN GTS
New Dividends and Interest Details Reports
The Dividends Report has been redesigned and improved with a number of new features to give you a better overview of the dividends payed on your stocks.
Interest Details give an overview of interest payments and deductions on your accounts.
The Dividends and Interest Details Reports can be filtered by date or by free-text search to filter by specific postings.
EXPORT TO EXCEL SUPPORT FOR REPORTS
Financial Statements, Account Statements, Trades Executed, Dividends and Interest Details reports now support export of the filtered results to an Excel sheet.
DISCONTINUATION OF IE 10 SUPPORT FOR GTS
Following Microsoft’s end-of-support of Internet Explorer 10 from January 2016, we will discontinue support of GTS in IE 10 in the near future.
We recommend the use of Chrome or IE 11 for GTS on Windows PCs.
Operating Systems and Browsers supported by GTS will be:
SQUARE AND REDUCE NET POSITION ENHANCEMENTS IN DESKTOP TRADER
It is now possible to reduce as well as square net positions in Desktop Trader.
The position overview now notes any open orders on the account for the instrument.
Square / Reduce Net Position is now also available for all products in addition to FX and CFDs.
RETIREMENT OF THE OLD GTS WEBTRADER
Following the successful rollout of the new Global TradeStation, the old GTS WEBTRADER has now been retired.
GTS WebTrader is in maintenance mode only, and we expect to fully discontinue this platform in Q2 2016.
MARKET DATA CHANGES
SPX.I substituted by SP500.I
The redundant symbol code SPX.I (S&P 500 Index) will be removed from the platform as of 1 March 2016. The cash index values are available on the symbol code SP500.I.
Please note that delayed and real-time data on S&P cash indices require a fee liable subscription as mentioned in our September 2015 notification.
The subscription is also necessary to view the index values in the Contract Option Chains in case S&P indices are underlying instruments for Listed Options.
