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XigniteGlobalFutures v2 Overview

Global delayed commodity futures and derivatives price quotes API

This API offers delayed commodity futures price quotes from major global commodity exchanges such as CME, NYMEX, COMEX, CBOT and others. In addition to commodity futures price quotes, the API also provides options, spot prices, and contract termination schedules for contracts written on over 300 underlying assets.

Key Features

  • Support for major global derivatives and commodities exchanges
  • Support for major commodities futures (energy, agriculture, metals, indices, etc.), index futures, FX futures, and interest rate futures
  • Support for NYMEX Swaps
  • Lookup active exchanges and futures by exchange or category
  • Automatic calculation and look up of front-month future termination schedules
  • Delayed and historical or EOD spot quotes available where applicable
  • Get future quote for front month, specific contract, top contracts
  • Delayed and historical spot quotes available where applicable
  • Historical quotes by contract or commodity. CME Group (CME, COMEX, NYMEX, CBOT) data is restricted to delayed and current EOD data onlyonly. CME Group EOD data is available for 8 hours after closing prices are published.
  • Historical daily or monthly quotes
  • Future quote by session (pit session vs Globex session where applicable)
  • Lookup quotes for specific future contract or full option chain

Key Benefits

  • Easily integrate global future data into your applications including portals, spreadsheets, websites, mobile apps and other corporate applications
  • Acquire more customers or users by offering trading data, or analytics covering future markets
  • Reduce your engineering costs and your time to market by using a single easy-to-use API to access all future data from global markets
  • Engage customers by easily displaying all contracts available for a given future symbol in order of maturity and providing them with accurate historical charts
  • Retain customers by giving them access to institutional quality, up-to-date future data they can trust
  • Power your own technical analysis models easily with intraday and historical tick data
  • Manage commodity futures risk exposure and monitor futures-spot spreads
  • Incorporate futures data in hedging analyses

Data Coverage At-A-Glance

  • Asset Class:Futures
  • Exchanges Covered: CME Group (COMEX, NYMEX, CBOT, CME), Eurex (End-of-day only), Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX), Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), Montreal Exchange.
  • Contracts Covered as traded on those exchanges:
  • Agricultural Futures: Corn, Soybean, Ethanol, Oat, Wheat, Cattle, Coffee, Cotton, Cocoa, Butter, Milk, Cheese, Lumber, Rubber, etc.
  • Energy and Oil Futures: Crude Oil Futures , Brent Crude Oil , Natural Gas, Heating Oil, Gasoline, Propane, Coal, Natural Gas E-mini, PJM Electricity and more.
  • Financial Futures: Stock index and commodity index futures, currency and cross-currency futures.
  • Interest Rate Futures: T-Bill and T-bond futures and interest rate swap futures.
  • Metals Futures: Precious metals futures for gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Salvage metal futures prices for aluminum, copper, nickel, zinc, tin, and more.
  • Timing: Delayed data (based on individual exchange delay guidelines)

Key Data Points

  • Future:Symbol, Name, Expiration Month, Expiration Year, Exchange
  • Quote:Open, High, Low, Last, Settlement Price, Volume, Open Interest, Previous Close, Change, Percent Change, Currency
  • Option:Bid, Ask, Bid Date and Time, Ask Date and Time, Open, Close, High, low, Last.