"ERROR MANAGEMENT - CSI remotely corrects all errors in past data deliveries on every user's computer on the very next day's download, We reward any customer reporting an error with a CSI anniversary pen or equivalent.",22800,,,,
ERROR REPORTING - Errors that have been discovered by CSI personnel or reported by users have been published in the monthly CSI Technical Journal for more than a decade. This brave policy of publishing mistakes is not duplicated by any competitor.,,,,,
"PHASED RELEASE OF DATA - CSI phases data release from 11:00 AM for the Pacific Rim, 3:45 PM for most European markets, 5:30 to 8:00 PM for US futures, stock indices, stocks, mutual funds, and options, etc.  Customers may call for data as the markets are finalized and begin analyzing the information provided. ",114000,,,,
"SCOPE AND CONTENT OF DATA - All 70+ world exchanges are covered in CSI's data feed, which offers futures, cash, stock, and mutual fund prices, inclusive of dividends and capital gains, on some 30,000-plus time series daily.",11000,,,,
"COMPUTED CONTRACT AVAILABILITY - UA can create any style of Proportionally Adjusted (some call it Ratio Adjusted-RAD), Back Adjusted, Gann Adjusted, Perpetual Contract(R) or Nth Nearest Future contract. Options are provided to allow customized rolling and splicing.",48001,,,,
"RESIDENT DATABASE - A full database, consisting of 99% of all of the world's commodity markets is on each commodity subscriber's hard drive.  Because of the unique design of the UA product, subscribers have the freedom to investigate anything unfettered by lost data, server unavailability, and portfolio management hassles.",12000,,,,
"SPEED OF UPDATES VIA THE INTERNET, DIRECT DIAL AND BROWSER ACCESS - The typical download and distribution process lasts between from one to ten minutes and updates almost 30,000 time series or markets daily.",31000,,,,
"COMMODITY CORRELATION TABLES - Tomorrow's Newspaper Today, available online from the CSI website, includes correlation tables showing the most positively and negatively correlated futures markets. These are likely to reveal outstanding  opportunities for profit using spread trades.",140500,,,,
"BASIC STUDIES - Unfair Advantage's basic studies include a seasonality study, RSI, Stochastics, Moving Average Crossover, Basis and Spread",63100,,,,
MULTIPLE UPDATE METHODS - Never let an Internet failure leave you in the dark.  UA supports download by Internet or direct modem access.,31000,,,,
"PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - The structure of UA accommodates the identification of multiple directories classified as perhaps, grains, energy, financials, indices, currencies, foods, livestock, etc., or whatever grouping will accommodate a particular objective for simple data management and control.",42174,,,,
CHARTING - UA's charting module gives every user a highly functional bar-chart snapshot of any market and a table of price reports over the period specified for the given chart.,61100,,,,
"ON-LINE MANUAL - CSI publishes a new UA manual every three months or so that introduces issues and topics important to an ongoing understanding of the software.  In addition, users may be alerted to significant events on-line with their daily download.",126010,,,,
"API INTERFACE - For the benefit of programmers who would like to write their own software to access the database, the Application Programmer's Interface (API) gives users a formatless entry into the massive two- or three-gigabyte plus database.  This interface offers immediate data access without the inconvenience of downloading bits and pieces of data from miscellaneous Internet sites.",1035000,,,,
ON-LINE FACTS ABOUT MARKETS - UA maintains specifications for every market offered in the UA.  This list is maintained by CSI personnel and updated automatically for UA users.  The days of changing point value in a dozen applications are over!,111100
"BROAD MARKET COVERAGE - CSI covers every world market, and there are many. The commodity database has nearly 600 different futures markets and at least an equal number of supporting and auxiliary cash markets that are updated every day.",11000
"USER SETTINGS AND CONTROL - UA offers a number of controls that allow customization for each user's unique application.  You can choose to force commodity symbols as two characters or show output price values in decimal or points, or perhaps choose a different ASCII naming convention.  Over 40 customizations supported.",42190
"DATA PRESENTATION - Settlement prices can occur outside the day's high-low trading range, so UA users can view the data in three different ways: Chart the settlement without any compromise to its actual price; force the high higher or the low lower to contain the settlement price in the daily range; adjust the settlement price to fall within the high-low range",107400
OPTIONS DATA - The CSI database includes futures options and stock index options. Option subscribers can easily add options to portfolios for quick and easy charts and exports.,48505
"FOOTNOTES ON MARKETS - UA's factsheets can include helpful footnotes. These explain anomalies or historical changes in the given market. For example, if a market once traded in British Pounds, but is now traded in US dollars, the footnotes would explain this as the reason that a currency conversion was applied.  CSI personnel maintain these footnotes.",111100
WEBSITE UPGRADES - CSI's website (www.csidata.com) is always current with announcements and changes involving our services.,
SEASONAL PRICE REPORTS - UA has a remarkably accurate calculation that gives a clear picture of the seasonal behavior of any market.  It is a cumulative study that is computed on a daily basis.  It offers an advantage that may provide an extra one or two percent more in your success rate.,63200
"ALERTS - UA has an on-line publication updated monthly showing last trading days for commodities and options, release dates for government reports such as the CPI, PPI, and monthly unemployment report, upcoming holidays, and many other ongoing details important to your trading success.",111311
"ESSAY ON COMPUTED CONTRACTS - Many users enjoy reading Bob Pelletier's essay on computed contracts, which explains their meaning, advantages and purpose. Find it in the printed and online (Help file) versions of the UA manual.",113000
"FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - CSI publishes frequently asked questions in the Tech Talk column of the CSI Technical Journal.  This free publication is published monthly and also offers trading tips, informative articles, statistics on new IPOs, information on stock splits, new stocks and commodities, symbol changes, and the CSI Error Report.",
"TECHNICAL SUPPORT - CSI has a substantial staff of knowledgeable professionals for 13 hours per day (8:30 AM -9:30 PM ET) weekdays, excluding major holidays.  They can answer your questions and get you up and running quickly.",19000
"INTERNET DATA AVAILABILITY ON-LINE - CSI provides the market quote data behind such providers as Yahoo, Microsoft Network, Prodigy, Netscape and many others.  Why do these services choose CSI? Quality.  Our data is the most accurate and timely.  Go with the best!",12000
"REMOTE FILE MANIPULATION - UA remotely manages the splicing, merging and concatenation of markets that have changed currency or product grade, so that customer will not lose the historical perspective.  For example, London silver has been quoted in both pound sterling and US dollar, and CSI offers one continuous price-adjusted file for all history data available.",112100
"TECHNICAL JOURNAL - Stay current with features, developments, market news, and answers to frequently asked questions.  Please call (800) 274-4727 or (561) 392-8663 (8 am to 9 pm EST), or e-mail marketing@csidata.com if you have not been receiving your free journal by mail.",
TRADING SYSTEM CERTIFICATION SOFTWARE - Every system requires at least a certain amount of capital to avoid a high probability of ruin.  CSI's Trading System Performance Evaluator (TSPE) is unique in its ability to discern this quantity accurately.  Do not be fooled by system reports that claim you can make a million dollars with a $200 investment.  Run it through TSPE first and get the facts!,81100
MARKET SCANNING WIZARD - Automatically create a file containing the recent price action of all stocks on selected exchanges or on various subsets. Easily scan all markets for meaningful indicators involving market data or custom studies.,53010
"MARKETSCANNER - Unfair Advantage provides capable market scanning and filtering software.  By filtering by any combination of the relevant indicators, you can find those diamonds-in-the-rough. You'll find MarketScanner on the Trading Tools menu.",51000
"VENDOR PORTFOLIOS PROVIDED WITH UA - Unfair Advantage ships with several portfolios: a standard demo portfolio, the Market Technology's Vantage Point(R) portfolio, Welles Wilder(R)'s One Day at a Time(R) portfolio, and a stock index portfolio.  If you are a vendor and wish to have your portfolio included, please call customer service at 1-561-392-8663 and we will be happy to oblige.",21400
"COMPUTED CONTRACTS - Add back-adjusted contracts to your portfolio to assure that historical prices are viewed from the proper perspective and with appropriate handling of successive delivery months. UA lets you select roll dates, weighting, adjustment methods and more.",48410
"INDIVIDUAL FUTURES GROUP - Your UA portfolio can keep you abreast of active futures contracts when you request an ""Individual Futures Group"" (IFG). You can even arrange for your portfolio to automatically delete expiring contracts, saving you time and disk space.",42160
"COMMODITY SECTOR REPORTS - Tomorrow's Newspaper Today includes a Daily Market Report of CSI's valuable sector reports. Choose from futures market categories such as Food and Fiber, Financial Products, Grains, Energy, Metals, etc. to display numerical data for the entire sector. Full price information is shown. With the click of a mouse, view a chart of historical price development over time.",140600
"ONLINE HELP - UA is equipped with a digital version of the User's Manual, which is accessible as a help file directly through the software. To read and search the manual, click the Help menu at the top of the UA screen, and then choose ""Help Topics."" This will launch the online help file. Use the Contents or Index options to find topics of interest.",19000
INTERACTIVE HELP - You can learn more about any Unfair Advantage screen prompt by selecting the prompt and then pressing the F1 key on your keyboard. The online manual's write-up about the specific topic will display.,19000
"IMPORTING A PORTFOLIO - You can import existing portfolios from other analysis programs into UA, provided your existing data files are in any of the following supported formats: UA, MS (MetaStock), CSIM (similar to MetaStock) and CSI (QuickTrieve). Use the ""Import Portfolio"" feature from UA's Portfolio menu.",41000
MULTIMARKET ANALYZER - Understanding market correlation is an important step in arranging a diversified portfolio. UA's MultiMarket Analyzer helps you assess intermarket relationships by producing a matrix of all requested pairs of markets and reporting the correlation coefficients over the entire period of available historical data.,74000
"THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE - Users of compatible trading platforms such as Welles Wilder's Delta Graphics can take advantage of automatic portfolio setup, which provides seamless compatibility with this popular third-party program. ",108200
"MULTINATIONAL INVESTMENTS - If you trade markets that are quoted in different currencies, UA's Position Manager will take the diverse currencies in stride. Display prices ""As per exchange"" to see local currency values, or display in a single currency of your choice to track your account equity. Now that's diplomacy!",91040
"INTRADAY QUOTES - Intraday updates are available through Unfair Advantage's Position Manager module. Quotes on stocks and North American futures are provided with minimal delays, and are derived from third-party websites over the Internet.",91000
"SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES - CSI supports and encourages the use of helpful third-party products that enhance your overall investment potential. Here are a few:
Nelson Freeberg's Formula Research - Innovative research aimed at predicting future market movement, (800) 720-1080; Keith Fitchen's Aberration - A trading product that has survived the test of time, (800) 372-3942 or (704) 752-7991; Richard Swanelle's Elliot Wave Analyzer - Cycle theory expertise in Australia, 011-61-8-9203-6626.",
"SEASONAL INDEX STUDY - CSI's Seasonal Index study (available from UA's Study menu) can be used to determine the expected seasonal movement of any market. Every current and historical data point is calculated through a forward-looking algorithm using only information that existed on the date in question. Unlike hindsight-derived seasonal predictions, where the seasonal movement known today is superimposed over the past, this study is totally without bias. It is therefore useful as an unbiased predictor of future seasonal market movement on a day-to-day basis.",63200
MINIMIZING CONNECTION FEES - Unfair Advantage can be directed to disconnect your Internet connection after all data has been captured in your daily updates. Off-line data distribution minimizes connection fees when a wireless communication channel is used.,35000
"DATABASE PROTECTION - Power loss, unstable Internet connections and Internet Service Provider failure can occasionally result in corrupted data in a history file. Should such a problem occur, use UA's History Refresh option to obtain a free replacement data file over the Internet.",33100
"UA MARKET CLASSES - Unfair Advantage offers more than 20 classes of data to facilitate market selection. These include All Futures Markets, Non-US Stock Markets, Mutual Funds, Interest Rates, Single Stock Futures, Commitments of Traders, Economic Statistics and more.",111100
"DIVIDEND INFORMATION - UA displays Five-Year Dividend Growth and Dividend Yield for each stock through the Factsheets. You may choose to adjust data for dividends and capital gains (or not) through an entry on the ""Historic Adjustments"" tab of both Portfolio Settings and Non-Portfolio Chart Settings. These fields are available for analysis through custom programming and UA's MarketScanner.",112100
SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES - The UA Factsheets include both a Sector Code and an Industry Code for most U.S. Stocks in the CSI database. These fields are available as search keys through UA's MarketScanner.,53020
SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES - CSI supports and encourages the use of helpful third-party products that enhance your overall investment potential. Here are two: Welles Wilder's Delta Society Int'l - http://www.deltasociety.com/ or call 1-800-837-1919 Ext. 6; VantagePoint by Louis Mendelsohn - www.profittaker.com or call (813) 973-0496.,
"FUNDAMENTAL DATA - Unfair Advantage's Factsheets list Price/Earnings Ratio, Earnings Per Share for each of the preceding four quarters, Earnings Per Share total for the last year, Shares Outstanding, Beta and more.",111100
"CUSTOM PROGRAMMING - UA lets you design your own custom analysis through the Interpreted Studies feature, which is linked to both the charting module and MarketScanner. It is provided for you to program, test, edit and optimize your own custom studies.",63700
"MORE STUDIES - UA's Interpreted Studies feature includes a library of analysis routines, including ADX, Bollinger Bands, Oscillators, Volatility studies and more. These may be used as they are, or modified to introduce your own ideas.",63710
WALK THROUGH A TSPE EXERCISE - The UA online manual includes a complete Tutorial for running the Trading System Performance Evaluator (TSPE). Find out how easy to test and certify a trading system BEFORE committing funds!,85000
"COMMITMENTS OF TRADERS - CSI provides weekly updates on Commitments of Traders (COT) data, compiled by the U.S. government and distributed by Steve Briese's Bullish Review. We also provide the Bullish Review's excellent COT indices. For regular analysis, interpretation and very helpful commentary on these assessments of market strength, contact the Bullish Review at (888) 423-4950.",118000
"SOFTWARE UPGRADES - The latest version of Unfair Advantage is usually available free of charge on the CSI website (www.csidata.com). Upgrades keep you current on new features and fixes, and can correct problems due to file corruption on your drive.",122000
"NEWS UPDATES - The CSI website at www.csidata.com includes links to important news stories that affect investors. Click the links to read the stories. Use your computer's ""bookmark"" or ""favorites"" utility if you wish to return to the stories later.",22700
"NUMERICAL DATA - You can view numerical price data through UA in several ways: Get an overview of today's prices for your portfolio(s) through the ""Snapshot"" button; from a chart, click the ""Table"" tab, or click the ""Crosshair"" button.",61400
"EXPORTING TEXT FILES - You can export any UA file to ASCII format and then view with a word processor or text reader.",101001
"QUICK CHARTS - You can scroll through the charts listed in your portfolio by clicking the right or left ""Portfolio"" arrow below your chart.",61700
"THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE - Users of compatible trading platforms such as Louis Mendelsohn's VantagePoint can take advantage of automatic portfolio setup, which provides seamless compatibility with this popular third-party program. ",108300
STUDY TEMPLATES - UA lets you create a list of favorite studies for quick selection from a menu at the bottom of the charting screen. Any one of these studies can be added automatically to all your UA charts. ,61510
"FAVORITES - MarketScanner and the charting module's Interpreted Studies automatically create lists of your ""Favorite"" custom studies. Select from the ""Favorites"" menu to easily execute even the most complex studies.",53911
MULTIPLE ACCESSES - Unfair Advantage users may update the UA database as often as necessary to capture current end-of-day data for the desired markets. See the CSI website at www.csidata.com for a schedule and current posting status. ,114000
"SEND TO THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE - UA's ""Send to Third-Party Software"" button makes it easy to export data for use with MetaStock, VantagePoint, Delta Graphics, QuickTrieve and other compatible analysis programs.",22104
"STOCK INFO IN ""TOMORROW'S NEWSPAPER"" - UA's Online Newspaper lets you view an index of any major stock exchange, as well as a newspaper-style listing of top stocks rated by volume, money flow and price change (major movers).",140300
"PORTFOLIO MANAGER - UA's Portfolio Manager panel lets you handle all aspects of portfolio management, from creating portfolios, to adding contracts and stocks, to defining custom specifications for adjusted data series, exporting files and creating charts.",4300
"MUTUAL FUND LOADING - UA lets you decide if the ""load"" value plus net asset value will be displayed as the ""high"" price for your funds. ",64500
"PERPETUAL CONTRACT(R) DATA - CSI has developed an innovative technique for blending multiple successive futures contracts into a single stock-like series. Why not try this time series that avoids the volatile expiring market period and the quiet early period of a contract's history, keeping your analysis at the center of liquidity?",48510
GANN DATA - Unfair Advantage supports Gann-style analysis with the creation of Gann Format data files. Specify the delivery month of your choice and the desired roll-forward date.,48610
"ANALYSIS FLEXIBILITY - When creating adjusted futures contracts for analysis, UA lets you choose between back adjusting, forward adjusting and proportionally adjusting. Now that's flexibility!",48430
"ROLL TRIGGERS - When defining continuous futures contracts for analysis, the roll-forward date (roll trigger) can be based on your choice of Open Interest, Volume, both Open Interest and Volume, either Open Interest or Volume, Day of Month (relative to start or end, in current or prior months) and days before expiration.",48320
"MULTIMARKET ANALYZER STRATEGY - Get more than raw data. The UA manual explores Trend-Following, Counter-Trend and Arbitrage & Spreads techniques for  applying MultiMarket Analyzer results.",71300
"TRADER'S GLOSSARY - The MultiMarket Analyzer section of the UA Manual includes a glossary prepared by M. Edward Borasky of Borasky Research that includes such terms as Arbitrage, Correlation Analysis, Factor Analysis, Monthly Return and more ",73000
"TROUBLESHOOTING - The UA Online Manual includes a ""Troubleshooting"" chapter with tips on everything from analysis to data downloading to Tomorrow's Newspaper. If you still have questions, please contact our Technical Support staff for personal attention.",138000