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  Commodity Exchanges - A listing of US commodity exchanges, links to their pages, and the commodities traded at those exchanges.

  Contract Specifications - A listing, by commodity, of trading hours, tick values, contract size, delivery months, and point values.

  Current News - A listing of current commodity news stories from a number of reliable sources including Financial Times, Reuters, New York Daily News and many other sources.

  Equity Run Codes - Contains a listing of the most common codes used on R. J. O'Brien equity run statements and the definitions of those codes. 

  FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions regarding our website as well as our free online Chat Room.

  Glossary of  Futures Terms - A glossary of terminology used in commodity trading.

Glossary of Wyckoff Terms - A glossary of terminology used to describe Richard D. Wyckoff principles.  This terminology is used during the online trading class held in our Chat Room, so it may be helpful to print it out.  

  Government Reports - A listing of Government reports with data available just moments after release.  Includes Monthly Unemployment, Agriculture reports, and CPI / PPI among others.

  Hightower Report "Daily Scoreboard" -  See what Hightower is saying about current market action.

Margin Requirements - Margin requirements for commodities traded with R. J. O'Brien & Associates, Inc.  Other clearing firms could have different margin requirements.  

Order Types - Definitions of the different types of orders and the exchanges that accept those orders.  This includes market orders, limit orders, MITs, OCO's and many others.