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	Paper trading is a good introduction to trading commodities. But it has its limitations. There are many mistakes a person can make while paper trading that will give a novice a false sense of knowledge about his or her prowess in the markets. Trade Simulator will give a more accurate indication of the user's ability as a trader. With Trade Simulator, the results are more accurate in that, if you place an order with a mistake in it your account will reflect your mistake. When paper trading, you can rationalize the mistake away and maybe not even count it. With Trade Simulator time marches on - you can't go back and alter your trades. The user will also learn how to place many types of orders and how these orders affect their entry position.  Trade Simulator can access data files in 35 different commodities, most of which span a ten-year period.  
	Regardless of how the user feels about fundamental verses technical analysis, a small trader (speculator) usually doesn't have access to timely information about the markets.  Quite often the markets will move contrary to the information that is readily available anyway. So the best approach in the author's opinion is to use fundamental analysis for a feeling of market direction and technical analysis for trade timing.
	Trade Simulator is a Charting program which has technical analysis built in. The hardest thing about trading commodities is learning about yourself and how you should handle the pressure. While the money is not real, the pressure and the desire to succeed is. Trade Simulator is designed to help you understand what it takes to be a trader from a personal standpoint - not so much from a technical standpoint. The mistakes you make with Trade Simulator might hurt your pride, but it won't hurt your pocket book. Real life trading mistakes will do both.


1.	Trade Simulator Basics:Basics  A guide to starting and using Trade Simulator.

2.	Order Rules:Order_Rules  Learn the rules for placing orders in the market.

3.	Contract Specifications:  Specs. The relationship between price movement and value.

4.  	Contract File Dates: Dates  Shows the beginning and ending date of each contract.

5.	Contract Expiration Dates:_EDView futures contract Expiration dates
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Trade Simulator Basics

1.	Menu Functions:   Describes all menu items and their usage.

2. 	Keys and Mouse actions:  Describes all mouse and key functions in 
				 Trade Simulator.

3.	Technical Indicators: A brief description of available indicators.

4. 	Getting Started:  Read this to get a good feel for running 
			  Trade Simulator.
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Order Rules

	There are several types of orders with which to trade the markets. 
Below are those that are available in Trade Simulator. To place an order 
for a specific commodity it's chart has to be displayed and in the foreground.

Important trading note:  The commodity files that Trade Simulator uses are 
history files.  Each futures contract has a specific life time and a history 
file is a collection of the nearest futures contracts.  For example if June 
Live Cattle is the nearest Live Cattle contract (the next contract to expire) 
then it's price quotes will be contained in the history file.  Since different 
futures contracts (in the same commodity) normally trade at different price 
levels, the history file will usually show large price movement when the 
nearest contract expires and new futures contract becomes the nearest contract.  This is especially true for agricultural commodities.  Normally, It is best not to trade a contract that is about to expire and the same is true with Trade Simulator.  Please refer to  Contract Expiration Dates_ED.

Stop Orders:  Stop orders are used most often for protecting one's open 
position from incurring large losses. Remember, the object in buying and 
selling contracts is to buy at some low price and sell at some higher price. 
Whether you buy or sell first is of no consequence, the object is still buy 
low and sell high. Stop orders are placed above the market if you are buying 
and below the market if you are selling. If you have sold a contract of corn 
at 245 1\4, you would want to protect yourself if the market moves above, say, 
249 1\2. You would place a buy stop order at maybe 250. A buy stop order is 
filled if the market trades at or above your stop and a sell stop order is 
filled if the market trades at or below your order. So you are taking a chance 
that you will get a fill at a price you don't want. Using the example above, 
you have a 250 buy stop placed but what if the market opens at 253. The market 
is above your buy stop so you are filled immediately at 253! That is a loss of 
$150.00 more per contract than you expected.
	
Stop orders are also used for buying breakouts to the upside and selling 
breakouts to the downside hoping to catch a move. What happens quite often 
though, is that you do just what you don't want to do - you sell at the low 
and buy at the high, ouch!

At The Market:  These orders are used for buying into the market at the 
current price, whatever it is. Beware, though! The traders on the floor like 
these orders because they can more easily use the difference between the bid 
and ask price to put some extra change in their pocket and in the process you 
will enter a position at the worst price at the moment.

Market Order:  This order is basically the opposite of a stop order. You are 
expecting to buy if the market trades at or below your order and sell if it 
trades above. This order seems to go along with the idea of buy low and sell 
high. The problem is that you are wanting to take a position against the 
market strength at the time. If the market bears are pushing the market down, 
it takes guts to buy into the market against them.

If Touched:  This order is basically a market order with one difference. With 
a market order, your order might not ( probably won't ) get filled if the 
market trades up to, but not through, your market order. Floor brokers, for 
the most part, are not held to filling orders that the market has not traded 
through. An If Touched order becomes an At The Market order as soon as the 
market touches your price. Once again, beware! It will then get filled 
probably at the worst price traded at the time.

Cancel Order:  In real life trading you will have the opportunity to cancel 
many orders. In Trade Simulator a way was needed to cancel an order if you 
changed your mind and this is the way. You cancel the order with a cancel order. 
It is not a real world order type, it is just something you do when you change 
your mind. It is still good exercise to remember the orders that are active 
and be able to cancel that specific order.
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Contract Specifications

Contract                             Typical price       Value of point move

BRITISH POUND:			1.505		.001 = $6.25
CANADIAN DOLLAR:		.8622		.0001 = $10.00
COCOA:				1000		1 = $10.00
COFFEE:				105.55		.05 = $18.75
COPPER:				64.65		.05 = $12.50
CORN:				2456		1 = $50.00   ( the last digit is the number of
						          8ths, 6 = 6/8ths)
COTTON:				6125		1 = $5.00
CRB INDEX:			204.05		.05 = $25.00
DMARK VS YEN:			1235.36		.01 = $12.50
DMARK:				.6123		.0001 = $12.50
DOLLAR INDEX:			94.63		.01 = $10.00
EURODOLLAR:			96.01		.01 = $25.00
FEEDER CATTLE:			81.25		1 = $500.00
GOLD:				384.6		1 = $100.00
HOIL:				.4575		.0001 = $4.25
JAPANESE YEN:			.9601		.0001 = $12.50
LIVE CATTLE:			74.25		1 = $450.00
CRUDE OIL:			15.74		.01 = $10.00
LIVE HOGS:			39.75		1 = $450.00
LUMBER:				400.6		.1 = $16.00
NYSE COMPOSITE INDEX:		248.45		.05 = $25.00
OATS:				1676		1 = $50.00   ( the last digit is the number of
						          8ths, 6 = 6/8ths)
OJUICE:				104.75		.05 = $7.50
PORK BELLIES:			53.75		1 = $450.00
SOYBEANS:			6006		1 = $50.00   ( the last digit is the number of
							          8ths, 6 = 6/8ths)
SILVER:				5.015		.005 = $25.00
SP500:				447.15		1 = $500.00
SUGAR11:			11.32		.01 = $11.20
SUGAR14:			11.32		.01 = $11.20
SWISS FRANC:			.6850		.0001 = $12.50
TBIL90DY:			95.99		.01 = $25.00
TBND30YR:			114.10		1 = $1000.00
TNOTE10Y:			105.62		1 = $1000.00
TNOTE5Y:			105.78		1 = $2000.00
UNLGAS:				.6525		.0001 = $4.25
WHEAT:				3046		1 = $50.00   ( the last digit is the number of
								8ths, 6 = 6/8ths)
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Contract File Dates

      Start date(d/m/y)      Earliest user selectable date    End date(d/m/y)     .

BPOUND:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
CDOLLAR:	25/7/90			1/7/92				7/4/94 
COCOA:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
COFFEE:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
COPPER:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
CORN:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
COTTON:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
CRBINDX:	12/6/86			 1/6/88				7/4/94 
DM_YEN:		1/11/83			1/11/85				3/6/93 
DMARK:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
DOLINDX:       20/11/85			1/11/87				7/4/94 
EDOLLAR:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
FCATTLE:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
GOLD:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
HOIL:		25/7/90			 1/7/92				7/4/94 
JAPYEN:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
LCATTLE:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
LITCRUDE:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
LIVEHOGS:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
LUMBER:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
NYSECMP:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
OATS:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
OJUICE:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
PBELLIES:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
SBEANS:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
SILVER:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
SP500:		25/7/90			 1/7/92				7/4/94 
SUGAR11:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
SUGAR14:	11/3/91			 1/3/93				7/4/94 
SWISS:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
TBIL90DY:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
TBND30YR:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
TNOTE10Y:	1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
TNOTE5Y:	27/5/88			 1/5/89				7/4/94 
UNLGAS:		3/12/84			1/12/86			       18/1/94 
WHEAT:		1/11/83			1/11/85				7/4/94 
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Mouse and Keyboard Actions

In Trade Simulator there are just a few special mouse and keyboard uses.
Drawing Trend Lines:  The right mouse button is used in trend line drawing. 
First select the trend line drawing menu item or the corresponding button. 
Then place the cursor on the chart at the point you would like the line to 
begin. Press and hold the right mouse button down. Second, while holding the 
right mouse button down, move the pointer to a point on the chart you would 
like the line to run through and release the mouse button.

Drawing Support Lines:  The right mouse button is used in support line drawing. 
First, select the support line drawing menu item or the corresponding button. 
Then place the cursor on the chart at the point at which you would like the 
line drawn and press and release the right mouse button.

Viewing Price Data and moving the Charts to the next day:  Place the mouse 
cursor over the price chart and double-click the left mouse button. A chart 
cursor will appear over a price bar. As long as the mouse cursor is not over 
the button bar, price data for that bar will be displayed in the status bar 
at the bottom of the program's main window. The left and right arrow keys 
will become active, allowing you to move the chart cursor to any bar you wish. 
If the chart cursor is moved past the far right hand price bar, all charts 
displayed will be moved to the next day and any active orders will be traded. 
Pressing the Esc key will remove the chart cursor.
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Getting Started

This is intended to give the user a brief introduction to Trade Simulator. 
Every time Trade Simulator is started, a commodity and chart style has to be 
selected from the File menu.

The First Time:  Each Time Trade Simulator is started, a trading commodity and 
chart style has to be selected before charts and most menu items can be used. 
First you need to select a commodity to trade. To do this, from the menu, 
select File then Set Trading Contract to call up the contract selection dialog 
box. The first time Trade Simulator is run, there is no default date set so 
once a commodity is selected choose the menu items File then Set Chart Styles 
to call up the date and chart style dialog box. From then on when Trade 
Simulator runs, the date is not an option in this dialog box. You are ready 
to display a chart by selecting File then Open Trading Chart or clicking the  
button.

Setting Dates:  The First time Trade Simulator is started, the suggested 
default chart date is supplied in the chart styles dialog box. Before you set 
the default date, it might be wise to look at Contract File DatesDates to see 
the beginning dates for the contract you wish to start trading. This will 
ensure that you end up with enough history to use the indicators. Normally if 
the data begins on Jan. 1,1984, it would be safe to use a date in late 1985. 
After the default date is set, the style dialog box will change so the date 
portion is no longer an option. This is done to make it harder to go back and 
trade a time period that you have already gone over. This program will work 
best if you pick a commodity and a default date and trade just that commodity 
until you have reached the ending file date. Then go back and trade another 
commodity from beginning to end. To do this, you have to be able to regain the 
option of selecting the default date again. Go to your TSIM directory on your 
computer and delete the file datet.dat. This is the file that holds the default 
date and its deletion will cause the program to ask for another date.  Once 
the date and commodity are selected, the rest of your time will be spent using 
the program and having fun while learning to trade commodities.

Time Periods:  The chart bar periods can be daily, weekly or monthly. The 
maximum number of bars in any chart is approximently 90 days if the chart is 
full screen width. This would be three months of daily bars, 1 year 8.5 months 
for weekly bars and 7 years 6 months for monthly bars.

Technical Indicator time periods:  The Maximum indicator time period 
Trade Simulator will use is 90 periods or the number of time periods from the 
earliest date displayed on the chart to the first date in the commodity 
contract being displayed. If you choose an indicator period greater than 
either of these Trade Simulator will ignore that indicator if you try to 
display it and uncheck that indicator's menu item.
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File

Set Trading Contract:  Selecting this menu item brings up a dialog box that 
allows the user to select a commodity contract to chart. You won't be able to 
display a chart until a selection is made from this dialog box.

Set Chart Styles:  Selecting this menu item brings up the chart style dialog 
box. The first time this dialog box is opened, the user will select a date. 
This will be the last date on the right side of the chart. The date portion of 
this dialog box will not be available from then on. Remember, Trade Simulator 
is designed to help you learn how to trade. Letting you go back and forth 
between dates would allow you a distinct advantage in the outcome of your 
trades. The rest of this dialog box allows you to select daily, monthly or 
yearly charts. There is also a choice of displaying candlestick or open, high, 
low, close bars for the chart. The defaults for the time period is daily and 
default for the chart type is open, high, low, close bars.

Show Default Date:  The Default Date is the last day shown on the current 
visible charts or the last date displayed the last time the program was run. 
It corresponds to the price bar on the far right side of the chart.
	
Open Trading Chart:  This menu item draws a chart with the current trading 
contract and chart styles. Note: The Number of price bars to be displayed on 
any chart is derived from the width of the chart. You cannot change this. If 
you want to get a longer - term view of the price history than, for example, 
a daily chart will give you, you will need to open a weekly or monthly chart.

Exit:  Quit Trade Simulator.
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Trade

New Account:  A dialog box is displayed by selecting this menu item that will 
allow you to open a brokerage account and set the beginning balance.

Place Orders:  Choosing this menu item will bring up your order dialog box. 
You will be able to place most orders here that you would with a real broker.

Account History:  View the beginning and current account balances and the order history. The order 
history is orders that are matched.

View Filled Orders: View all orders which are filled and you hold an at - risk 
position.

View Active Orders: View orders which are not filled, but are active on the 
trading floor.	
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Chart

Set Technical Indicator's Periods: The Check mark in front of this selection 
indicates the technical indicator time periods is set either by reading the 
default file on disk or by you. The default time periods are the periods 
chosen by the indicator's originator or by Trade Simulator's author through 
his own experience.

Display Indicators: This menu item allows the user to select which indicators 
to display on the currently active chart. All of these menu items are toggles. 
If a check mark is displayed next to an indicator, that means it is displayed 
on the active chart. Selecting this menu item will then clear the check mark 
and not display the indicator.

Draw candlesticks: The currently active chart will display candlesticks for 
price bars when this menu item is selected.

Draw O,H,L,C: The currently active chart will display open, high, low, close 
lines for price bars when this menu item is selected.

Quotes: This menu item toggles the display of price bars on and off for the 
active chart. This is useful in avoiding chart clutter when displaying some 
technical indicators.

Advance All Charts: All Displayed charts will advance to the next day.
    
Lines: This menu item allows you to draw trend lines, support lines or to 
delete the last line drawn. These are all toggles which will first place the 
mouse in line drawing mode then out of this mode. See Mouse and Keyboard 
Actions_Mouse_Keys
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Analyze 

Candles: Analyze candlestick patterns through pattern recognition. This menu 
item is a toggle. The first time it is selected it will turn on the recognition 
dialog boxes and the next time it will turn them off.

Indicators: This menu item allows you to select the indicators that will 
display buy/sell or long/short signals. These menu items are also toggles to 
turn analysis on then off.

Moving Average Crossovers: Display up and down crossings of price and averages 
or averages and other averages with the selection of this menu item.  These 
menu items are also toggles to turn analysis on then off.
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Window

This menu item is basically the same as it is in other Windows programs.
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Help 
	
This menu item is basically the same as it is in other Windows programs.
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Technical Indicators

Advance Decline Index "ADX":  This index attempts to identify trends. It 
produces three lines, ADX, D+ and D-. The primary line is the ADX line, which 
varies between 0 and 100. Values above 25 are considered to be evidence of the 
presence of a trend. If the D+ line is higher than the D- line, then that trend 
is considered to be an upward trend. If the D+ line is lower than the D- line, 
then that trend is considered to be a downward trend.
	When the Analyze ATR menu item is selected the chart will display a | 
at the top for a upward trend, at the bottom for a downward trend and nothing 
for no trend.

Average True Range " ATR":  This Indicator is used to determine the average 
normal trading range of a commodity.

Bollinger Bands:  Bollinger Bands are trading bands plotted around a price. 
Market reversals occur near the upper and lower bands. The middle band acts as 
a support line.  Commodity Channel Index " CCI":  The CCI is designed to detect 
beginning and ending market trends. A value of greater than 100 indicates a 
strategy in which one should BUY and hold until the indicator is less than 100. 
A value of less than -100 indicates a strategy in which one should SELL short 
and cover when the indicator is greater than -85.

Chicago Floor Trading Pivotal Point " CFTPP":  This indicator is used by floor 
traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to calculate short term support and 
resistance levels for commodities.

DeTrended Price  "DETREND":  This calculation first calculates a regression 
line for a time series, then subtracts the slope of the line from each of the 
items. By removing the trend from the time series, the result is a series of 
de trended prices. It has the effect of flattening out the trend to make 
oscillations more visible.

Moving Average Convergence Divergence  "MACD":  The MACD is the difference 
between two Exponential Moving Averages. This technique is used to signal 
trend changes and indicate the start of new trend direction. When the MACD 
crosses above the signal line, a BUY signal is generated. When the MACD 
crosses below the signal line, a SELL is generated.

Momentum:  This function monitors change in prices. It indicates if prices are 
increasing at an increasing rate or decreasing at a decreasing rate. It is a 
measurement of the acceleration and deceleration of prices. Divergences between 
price and Momentum indicate a possible trend reversal.

Relative Strength Indicator  "RSI":  The purpose of this indicator is to 
measure the strength or weakness of the overall market.

Stochastic:  The general Stochastic Theory is that, as prices decrease, they 
tend to accumulate near the extreme lows, and when rising, they tend to 
accumulate near the extreme highs.  Divergences between price and the 
stochastic lines indicate a possible trend reversal. When the lines are above 
80 the market is considered to be overbought. When these lines fall below 80 
it is considered to be a SELL point. After both lines drop below 25, the BUY 
signal is given when the stochastic lines climb above 25 again.

Random Walk Indicator  "RWI":  The Random Walk Indicator is used to determine 
if an issue is trending or in a random trading range. It attempts to do this 
by first determining an issue's trading range. The next step is to calculate a 
series of RWI indexes for the maximum look-back period. The largest index move 
in relation to a random walk is used as today's index. An issue is trending 
higher if the RWI of highs is greater than 1, while a downtrend is indicated 
if the RWI of lows is greater than 1.

Moving Averages:  Moving average give signals when different averages cross 
one another or cross the price. Trade Simulator will signal these crossovers 
if the user wishes.

True Strength Index  "TSI":  The TSI is a variation of the Relative Strength 
Indicator. The TSI uses a double smoothed exponential moving average of price 
momentum to eliminate choppy price changes and spot trend changes. This 
indicator has little or no time lag.

Welles Volatility  "WVOLITY":  The components of this system are as follows: 
SIC (Significant Close) the extreme favorable close price reached while in a 
trade.
ARC (Average Range Constant) the ATR times a constant.
SAR (Stop and Reverse point) a point defined by the distance between ARC and 
SIC. The point at which a trade should be made to open a new position or cover 
an existing position and open a new position. Entry points are made on the 
close when the price closes contrary to the SAR.

Williams Accumulation / Distribution Index  "WAD":  Look at divergence's for 
weakening.

Williams %R: The %R is an overbought and oversold indicator that is used to 
determine market entry and exit points. The range of the indicator is 0 to 100. 
If the indicator is between 0 and 10 you should SELL. If the indicator is 
between 90 and 100 this indicates a BUY opportunity.
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Contract Expiration Dates

Important note:  
The following contact specs. are current as of early 1994. However the 
exchanges can change these at any time, so when trading for real, you will 
need to use the current exchange times and dates.

BRITISH POUND:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second business day 
before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are March, June, 
September and December.

CANADIAN DOLLAR:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second business day 
before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are March, June, 
September and December.

COCOA:
Contract expires one business day prior to the last notice day.  The contract 
months are March, May, July, September and December.

COFFEE:
Contract expires one business day prior to the last notice day.  The contract 
months are March, May, July, September and December.

COPPER:
Contract expires the third last business day of maturing delivery month. 
The contract months are All Months.

CORN:
Expires the seventh business day preceding the last business day of delivery 
month. The contract months are March, May, July, September and December.

COTTON:
Contract expires one business day prior to the last notice day.  The contract 
months are March, May, July, October and December.

CRB INDEX:
Contract expires the third Friday of the contract month. The contract months 
are March, May, July, September and December.

DMARK VS YEN:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second business day 
before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are March, June, 
September and December.

DMARK:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second business day 
before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are March, June, 
September and December.

DOLLAR INDEX:
Expiring contracts close at 9:00am. Contract expires the third Wednesday of 
the expiring contract month. The contract months are March, June, September 
and December.

EURODOLLAR:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second London 
business day before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are 
March, June, September and December.

FEEDER CATTLE:
Expiring contracts close at 12:00 noon. Contract expires last Thursday 
contract month (with exceptions).  January, March, April, May, August, October 
and November.

GOLD:
Contract expires the third last business day of the maturing delivery month.  
The contract months are February, April, June, August, October and December.

HOIL:
Contract expires the third business day prior to the 25th calendar day of the 
month preceding the delivery month.  The contract months are All Months.

JAPANESE YEN:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second business day 
before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are March, June, 
September and December.

LIVE CATTLE:
Expiring contracts close at 12:00 noon. Contract expires last business day 
prior to last five business days of contract.  February, April, June, August, 
October and December.

CRUDE OIL:
Contract expires the third business day prior to the 25th calendar day of the 
month preceding the delivery month.  The contract months are All Months.

LIVE HOGS:
Expiring contracts close at 12:00 noon. Contract expires last business day 
prior to last five business days of contract.  February, April, June, July, 
October and December.

LUMBER:
Expiring contracts close at 12:05pm. Contract expires the business day prior 
to the 16th calendar day of the contract month. The contract months are 
January, March, May, July, September and November.

NYSE COMPOSITE INDEX:
Contract expires the Thursday prior to the third Friday of the contract month. 
The contract months are March, June, September and December.

OATS:
Expires the seventh business day preceding the last business day of delivery 
month. The contract months are March, May, July, September and December.

OJUICE:
Contract expires two business days prior to the third Wednesday of the 
contract month. The contract months are March, June, September and December.

PORK BELLIES:
Expiring contracts close at 12:00 noon. Contract expires last business day 
prior to last five business days of contract.  February, March, May, July and 
August.

SOYBEANS:
Expires the seventh business day preceding the last business day of delivery 
month. The contract months are January, March, May, July, August, September 
and November.

SILVER:
Contract expires third last business day of maturing delivery month.  The 
contract months are January, March, May, July, September and December.

SP500:
Contract expires Thursday prior to the third Friday.  The contract months are 
March, June, September and December.

SUGAR11:
Contract Expires the last business day of the month preceding the delivery 
month.  The contract months are March, May, July and October.

SUGAR14:
Contract Expires the last business day of the month preceding the delivery 
month.  The contract months are March, May, July and October.

SWISS FRANC:
Expiring contracts close at 9:16 am. Contract expires the second business day 
before third Wednesday of contract month. The contract months are March, June, 
September and December.

TBIL90DY:
 Expiring contracts close at 10:00am.  Contract expires the first business day 
prior to delivery date.. The contract months are March, June, September and 
December.
	
TBND30YR:
Contract expires the eighth to last business day of the delivery month.  The 
contract months are March, June, September and December.

TNOTE10Y:
Contract expires the eighth to last business day of the delivery month.  The 
contract months are March, June, September and December.

TNOTE5Y:
Contract expires the eighth to last business day of the delivery month.  The 
contract months are March, June, September and December.

UNLGAS:
Contract expires the third business day prior to the 25th calendar day of the 
month preceding the delivery month. The contract months are All Months.

WHEAT:
Expires the seventh business day preceding the last business day of delivery 
month. The contract months are March, May, July, September and December.