FORMAT OF SOYBEAN DATA ON CD-ROM
Daily Data 1936-5/2003
The soybean data consists of three folders. The first folder is
titled Soybeans_May_3688. This is daily data for the May contract from
the first day of futures trading in soybeans in 1936. The format is CSI;
readable by most charting software; including CycleTimer, Tradestation,
Metastock, etc. Also within this folder is the subfolder May1949_2003
which contains the daily data from 1949-2003 in ASCII format.
The second
folder is titled Soybeans_Cash_FUT. It contains all daily futures
contracts and Chicago cash data 1969-1998. These files are *.DAT, or
Metastock format. Metastock is readable by most major charting software,
including CycleTimer.
Monthly Data 1913-1997