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September 2024
This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:
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The Fastmarkets Dashboard is available via web browser and as a desktop application.If your operating system is Windows 10 we recommend using the desktop application. If your operating system is earlier than Windows 10 or you prefer to use the Dashboard via a web browser it is recommended to use the latest version of Chrome.
How to install the desktop application:
Logging into the web version of the DashboardThe Dashboard can be accessed via web browser from the following URL. It is recommended to use the latest version of Chrome: https://dashboard.fastmarkets.com/
View the Dashboard in ChineseYou have the option to view the Dashboard in Chinese. On the login screen, select your language preference (English or Chinese) to determine the language used in the Dashboard. This selection will default to the language of your browser.
You can change your language preference at any time by clicking on your user name in the top right-hand corner of the Dashboard and clicking on the English or Chinese option selection.
Please note instructional buttons, the Search tool and any displayed dates will be translated into Chinese, however, not all elements of pricing, descriptions, newsletters or news articles are translated.
Workspaces are blank canvases on which you will add tools to track the prices and markets that are vital to your business. You can save and pin your favorite workspaces or you can use the market page templates already available to you. It is also possible to share workspaces with other Dashboard users.
Workspaces are saved automatically whenever a change is made.
To create and customize a new workspace:
Sharing workspaces and news articles Users can share a copy of workspaces or news articles with other Dashboard users through email or message by clicking on the Share Workspace icon in the top right corner. This functionality will save time where multiple users require a similar workspace set up, quickly replicate and amend your own workspaces, or share news content with colleagues.
Please note instructional buttons, the Search tool and any displayed dates will be translated into Chinese, however, not all elements of pricing or descriptions or news articles are translated.
For more information download a short User Guide here
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The Dashboard, available via web browser or as a desktop application, provides the ultimate flexibility in accessing, comparing and monitoring Fastmarkets Metals & Mining prices and news in an easy-to-use, screen-based solution.
When logging in for the first time, you will see a welcome message offering a brief explanation of the Dashboard.
Navigating the Dashboard
The Dashboard allows you to customize how you view prices, charts, tables and news by using the following:
The screenshot below shows where to find the following Dashboard features.
Dashboard Icon Functions
You can watch a short video to get started here
To get started you may wish to begin with one of our pre-built Market pages. Take a look at the Market Pages section on this page.
Our market pages are pre-built to include the key prices and information that our expert editorial team have identified giving you an overview of the market at your fingertips. Covering commodity areas and key product or industry areas, these market pages are available in line with your subscription.
Market pages are pre-populated workspaces by market area; use them as starting points to edit and save alongside your existing workspaces.
How to view market pages:
Please note – market pages are dependent on your level of access.
For more details on using and customizing market pages, please refer to this short User Guide.
Our search tool helps you find prices by keyword, commodity, location and source, then select the appropriate widget and workspace to display chosen content.
The search tool, which can be found at the top of the Dashboard or within widgets, can be used to find prices and news articles by using keyword searches or filters. Prices and news are tagged to pre-defined categories, ensuring relevant content can be found easily. Please refer to the News section for further detail on searching for articles.
How to use the search for prices:
Please note: Any prices that are not included in your subscription will not appear in the search results.
Data reports widget – discover LME data, bonded stocks and inventories:
Fastmarkets base metals bonded stocks, chrome ore and manganese ore inventories can be accessed via the Add Widget button using the Data reports widget. These data sets require the following subscriptions:
· Base metals bonded stocks – base metals prices included in their subscription
· Chrome ore and manganese ore inventories – ores and alloys prices included in their subscription.
You can also choose to display historical data by selecting from the date menu. The latest available data will be displayed for your chosen date. These data sets update with the following schedule:
· Copper bonded stocks – every other Monday
· Aluminium, nickel and zinc bonded stocks – monthly
· Chrome and manganese ore inventories are weekly, every Monday
The available dates will be highlighted in white.
Note: The Data reports widget also contains LME content sets such as LME Closing Prices, LME Warehouse Stocks and LME Averages. To find out more about these please refer to the Exchange market data User Guide.
For more details on how to search in the Dashboard please refer to this short User Guide.
Track the latest market data and monitor market changes, price relationships and volatility across a range of minerals with our Multi Price Table widget.
Display up to 150 prices to compare the prices that you need. Customize the data fields that are displayed to ensure you are viewing the price data you need as you need it.
Using the Multi Price Table widget:
From time to time Fastmarkets may adjust prices contained in the price packages by launching new or discontinuing prices. Once a pricing notice has been issued and the price is discontinued it will remain available in the Dashboard for up to two years before being removed. During this period, you will see the following icon (calendar with an “x”) and row highlighting in the Multi Price Table to denote it has been discontinued:When no longer available in the Dashboard you will see this message:To access Fastmarkets Pricing Notices please click here – https://www.fastmarkets.com/about-us/methodology/price-notices
Accessing Pricing rationales
Pricing rationales are short pieces of text to explain how the price was derived and how any assessment was developed. It provides increased transparency, explaining how and why expert judgment was exercised, and is provided for all our IOSCO audited prices.
Pricing rationales are published on select prices via the single price widget and the multi price table on the dashboard. Please note: pricing rationales are not available for all prices and requires a price packages subscription.
For more information please download a short User Guide.
Fastmarkets published average prices
Fastmarkets publishes weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly averages based on the underlying actual assessments. For certain Cobalt prices there are also Weighted Average of Trades (MB-CO-0004 and MB-CO-0005). The averages are published on the first day of the next average period for the previous average, e.g., for a monthly average published on 1st June it will display the May monthly average.
Fastmarkets Averages methodology:
Fastmarkets averages are a simple average calculation. Fastmarkets’ simple monthly averages are calculated by dividing the sum of all price quotations within a month by the number of quotations published during the calendar month. For assessments, Fastmarkets derives both the monthly average high price and the monthly average low price using this method. For indices, a single monthly average price point is calculated.
The following assessments are published on a simple average methodology:
· All base metals, including calculated prices
· All nonferrous scrap, including calculated prices
· All steel
· Ferrous scrap, including regional domestic assessments – such as Chicago, Detroit, etc. – and export yard prices, the export indices, Mexican scrap prices and the Midwest scrap indices
Fastmarkets averages for calculated composite prices for ferrous scrap are the exception to the above. These are calculated using a rolling average methodology by dividing the sum of the daily price quotations – including prices republished on non-assessment days – by the number of quotations published during the calendar month.
In a rolling-average scenario, prices are published daily, regardless of how frequently they are updated. Daily price quotations are rolled over on working days until the following price change, excluding holidays and weekends. No pricing inputs are published on holidays or weekends.
Effective March 1st 2023, Fastmarkets made a change to the calculation of mid-prices for published averages.
To align with market convention, Fastmarkets will change the calculation of averages to represent the monthly average of the midpoint of each pricing session during the month.
Currently, the average function, when used for assessments, calculates the midpoint of the monthly average high assessment and monthly average low assessment.
Although the new average calculation may result in a difference of +/- 0.01 when calculating averages to two decimal places, it will typically be no higher or lower. No averages will be retrospectively changed.
You can read more about this change here – https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/conclusion-of-open-consultation-on-calculation-of-averages-on-the-fastmarkets-platform
Month-to-date averages
Fastmarkets’ month-to-date averages are calculated by dividing the sum of all price quotations by the number of quotations that have been published within a calendar month at the time of access/prior to the publication of the official monthly average.
Fastmarkets makes available the month-to-date average after the publication of the first price quotation in that calendar month. The month-to-date average figure will be recalculated and updated automatically after each price quotation publication. Once the official monthly average is published, the month-to-date average will no longer be visible.
These can be found in the Single Price Tile, Multi Price Table and Historic Price Table widgets
You can find out more about how to find and display Fastmarkets published averages here
Save time searching, filtering or repeating news searches on key topics or markets with our News List widget. Understand the markets that matter to you by creating a customized news feed, multiple saved searches to display alongside prices and charts.
Using the News widget:
How to search for news:
Search for news using pre-populated search filters
When adding a News List widget the Search Tool will provide easy to use pre-populated search criteria making it faster to find the news for the markets you follow. In this example Base metals has been selected, adding relevant filters:Search by keyword(s) for news: Searching by keyword(s) will return results for stories with the word(s) in the headline or body text of an article. Click on the ALL tab for price and news results. Click PRICES or ARTICLES to view results returned specifically under those tabs.
Filter news search results by date and/or relevancy: Use the Global Search tool at the top of the Dashboard to save time finding news articles by using the date filter:
By default, the date range for the news search results is ‘All’. To narrow the search results by date, select from the Date range menu above the search results. The available date range selections are the last 24 hours, last week, last month, last 6 months or last year.For more information please download a short USER GUIDE.
Data or images may be printed, exported and copied for use in spreadsheets, reports and presentations (as aligned with the terms and conditions of your Fastmarkets data license agreement).
Copying data for the Excel Add-in requires you to first install and login to the Excel Add-in on Microsoft Excel.
The Excel Add-in can be downloaded and installed here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/our-platform/support/excel-add-in-support/excel-download
Further information, help and templates can be found here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/platform/support/excel-add-in
The export icon can be found in the top-right corner of each widget. Menu options are the same for the Price Tile and Multi Price Table widgets.
Copy or export data from Single Price Tile, Multi Price Table or Historic Price Table widgets
You can copy or export selected prices from the Single Price Tile, Multi Price Table or Historic Price Table widgets based on the fields selected in the widgets. An image of the price displayed in the widgets can also be exported in a PDF format. Any physical prices which have been converted to a different currency and/or unit of measure within a widget will be exported in the selected conversions rather than it’s assessed currency and/or unit of measure.
In a Single Price Tile widget, historical data for the displayed fields and prices can be exported in the following formats: – Copy for Excel Add-in (Excel Add-in required to copy formulae) – Copy values only (static data) – Export – Comma-separated values (.csv; file saved to Downloads folder) – Export – Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
Here is a look at the Excel and PDF results in greater detail.
Copy or Export data from a Price Chart widgetYou can export or copy data and images from a Price Chart widget in the formats below.
Historical data will be exported for the date selected at the top of the chart and will include all prices and field labels displayed (up to eight prices with high/mid/low would export 24 columns of data). – Copy for Excel Add-in (Excel Add-in required to copy formulae – Copy values only (static data) – Export – comma-separated values (.csv; file saved to Downloads folder) – Export – Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) – Export – PNG image (.png; exports current view) – Export – PDF document (.pdf; exports current view)
All image export files can be found in your local Downloads folder, labeled with the date and timestamp of export.
Exported image files contain the price symbol, price description and field names, username of the person who has exported the chart, download date and time, and the Fastmarkets watermark and data license agreement message.
Print or Export data from a News List widget
News articles can be exported and printed for use outside of the Dashboard.
To stay abreast of changes in prices and news, you can create alerts for a single price, multiple prices or news within the Fastmarkets Dashboard. Notifications will be delivered in the Dashboard when the application is open and running.
How to set up alerts for a single price:
How to set up alerts for multiple prices:
You can create alerts for a group of prices of a similar Commodity, Price or Location by using the search filters. The following will trigger an alert if a single price within the group changes, depending on the selected type and criteria.
How to create news alerts:
How to view triggered alerts:
The Alerts icon will display in a purple circle the number of alerts that have been triggered. When the Alerts menu is opened the triggered alerts appear with a purple dot next to them. When the Alerts menu is closed, the triggered alert icon will disappear.
How to edit an alert:
Please note it is not possible to edit any alerts set up prior the release of v1.65.7155 on 1st March 2021
How to delete an alert:
The Dashboard provides two different types of charting tools. The first is the Price Chart widget enabling you to identify trends, compare prices over time or gain a view of where to forecast prices graphically for prices with a high/low/mid value or bid/ask/mid. View historical pricing as a line chart for up to eight prices for a chosen date range; compare price fields; view absolute prices, or compare prices with a percent change chart.
The second is the Live Chart widget which enables you to view historical and intra-day data for a single exchange or over-the-counter (OTC) price (such as spot precious metals or foreign exchange (FX) rates) plotting open/high/low/close prices. Select either a line, bar, candle or mountain chart for one price, displaying the data in intervals from 5 minutes up to 1 month with volume data (where available) in the sub-chart at the bottom.
How to add the Price Chart:
Edit the date range of a chart:
By default, one year of historical pricing is displayed, but the date range can be customized in three ways:
Edit the displayed price fields:
It is possible to display the high, low or midpoint of a price range or a combination of these price fields
Comparing prices in a Price chart
How to add the Live Chart widget:
It is possible to share a copy of workspaces, prices or news articles with other Dashboard users through email or messaging, which will save time where multiple Dashboard users require a similar workspace set up, quickly replicate and amend your own workspaces or to share news content with colleagues.
Sharing workspaces and news articles
*The URL link will expire in 30 days.
Note – news article URLs can only be shared from the Dashboard web version.
Sharing prices
Prices can be shared from the Search Tool at the top left of the Dashboard. Enter your search criteria, click on the Prices tab to view the results and select the price you are looking for. Before selecting the workspace and widget to add the price to click on the Share link icon in the bottom left. This will copy the link to your clipboard, allowing you to paste into email or instant messaging applications.
The dashboard provides the ability to view pricing from the London Metal Exchange (LME), CME Group (CME) and Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) in pre-configured widgets.
– LME Official Prices widget– LME Unofficial Prices widget– CME Settlement Prices widget– SHFE Close Prices widget
How to set up an Exchange Pricing widget:
LME Official Prices and LME Unofficial Prices widgets
The LME Official Prices widget and LME Unofficial Prices widget provide an overview of key exchange pricing for the previous day across Cash, 3 Months, 15 Months and the first three December prompt dates for the following contracts:
CA – Copper; AH – Aluminium; NI – Nickel; ZS – Zinc; PB – Lead; SN – Tin; AA – Aluminium Alloys; CO – Cobalt; and NA – Nasaac (North American Special Aluminum Alloy Contract)
CME Settlement Prices widget and SHFE Close Prices widget
The CME Settlement Prices widget displays the previous day settlement prices for the first four CME (formerly COMEX) gold, copper and silver futures contracts.
The SHFE Close Prices widget displays the latest closing prices for the first-month SHFE aluminium, copper, nickel, lead, tin and zinc futures contracts.
How to search and add Exchange pricing to existing widgets It is also possible to search and add Exchange pricing for LME, SHFE and CME into your existing widgets to compare with physical pricing. This is available for Single Price Tile, Multi Price Table, Price Chart and Historic Data table widgets.
Please note it is not yet possible to convert currency and/or unit of measure for exchange prices.
Depending on your access you may be entitled to view previous day, delayed or live exchange prices in the Multi Price Table widget. When a price changes in real time, it flashes either green (up tick) or red (down tick) from the previous price update.
View London Metal Exchange (LME) Monthly Averages, Warehouse Stocks and Closing PricesView a selection of pre-configured reports displaying previous day data from the London Metal Exchange (LME) including:
– LME Monthly Averages
– LME Warehouse Stocks
– LME Closing Prices (Evening Evaluations)
To add this data to your workspace:
Fastmarkets Dashboard also contains:
– Spot precious intraday pricing as well as LBMA prices
– Live global FX spot rates and forwards
– Daily ECB rates
For more information please download a short USER GUIDE
In a time of increased uncertainty critical insight into price forecasts provides the ability to make better informed decisions. Fastmarkets have been providing research analytics for over 30 years and our forecasts are built on a robust methodology which will enable you to plan purchasing or manage inventories; guiding your next decision or negotiation whether you are buying, trading or hedging.
Fastmarkets short-term forecast content in the Dashboard includes:
Access to short-term forecast content
Access to short-term forecast content is available as an add on to your existing Fastmarkets data license(s). If as a subscriber to our forecast content, the below functionality options do not appear in your chart please contact our Client Services team clientservices@fastmarkets.com to check your level of access.
Forecast methodology
Fastmarkets forecasts prices are published monthly, some forecasts are published on a weekly basis, for the current and following year. Corresponding commentary will update throughout the month as markets move.
You can find more information about the methodology and modelling for Fastmarkets Forecasts here.
Plot forecasts in the Price Chart widget
Price forecasts can be plotted alongside existing Fastmarkets published assessments in a Price Chart widget so you can understand the historic assessment price trend and view the forecasted price direction together in one chart.
Forecasts are available by searching for the “parent” price symbol, no need to search separately. To understand which prices have available forecasts please refer to the Our metals prices section towards the top of this page.
By default the forecast is displayed to the right of the historical price in the lighter grey shaded area, denoted as a dashed line. , you can easily add the related forecast by toggling on above chart. By default it loads the full forecast series:
Each dashed line in the chart displays a weekly or monthly price forecast data point depending on the frequency of that published forecast.
You can toggle forecast prices on/off and edit the time horizon of the plotted forecast prices from the Forecasts menu:
Edit the date range of the price history on the left side of the chart as you usually would in the Price Chart widget. For more information refer to the Charts support section.
You can switch to a data table of price history and forecast prices by selecting Data Table from the top left menu in the Price Chart widget, switch back by selecting Line Chart:
View forecast commentary from a Price Chart widget
Fastmarkets forecasts also provide a commentary or summary which updates during the month giving a view of current factors impacting a price or group of prices.
To navigate from the Price Chart widget to the forecast commentary click on the Commentary menu at the top of the chart and select the symbol you wish to read a commentary for. If you have multiple symbols in the chart those which have a forecast price will have a corresponding commentary available.
Discover forecast market analysis
Fastmarkets commentary and market analysis provides in depth detail how the previous month’s forecasts performed, what changed and why as well as intelligence and analysis from the latest industry events. This in depth market analysis can be found by navigating from the Price Chart widget or through the News List widget.
Monthly market analysis provides an in depth outlook for a price or group of prices which may include graphics and data tables.
Access the Short-term Forecast Tracker (pdf) from the Price Chart widget
Fastmarkets full market analysis is available in pdf format in the Dashboard Reports Library. You can easily navigate from the Price Chart widget by clicking on the View latest report button in the Outlook Commentary or Analysis articles as is show below:
This will direct you to the Dashboard Reports Library where you can find all Tracker publications within your subscription.
Access short-term forecast tracker documents in the Dashboard Reports Library
The Dashboard Reports Library is where you will find the Short-term Forecast Tracker documents in pdf and supporting data in Microsoft Excel format which are included in your subscription.
Click on the Newsletters & reports link in the left-side navigation menu. If you subscribe to Fastmarkets news by default the Newsletters tab will be displayed. Click on Forecasts and Short -term to display the forecast content you have subscribed to.
The Reports Library publication page displays:
You can view to forecast prices and analysis articles in the Market Pages by clicking on the View Forecast Charts button in the top right corner:
Select the Market Page you would like to view.
Click on a Tracker publication to expand and view the documents in the latest issue. Click the purple download buttons to download each document.
Access the one year document archive for Short-term Forecast Trackers
Click on the View archive link for your selected Short-term Forecast Tracker to navigate to the documents page where you can find the latest issue as well as those from the last year. Click on the Previous Issues button to open and select the issue you would like to download. Select the date of the issue you wish to view. This will then display the documents available to download.
Short-term Forecast Tracker email alerts
By default you will be already subscribed to receive email alerts when each new issue is published. This is denoted by the purple bell icon against each issue within your subscription on the publication page and the documents page (see below).
Should you wish to no longer receive these alerts, click on the purple bell icon. The bell icon will then be coloured grey to denote you are unsubscribed. Click on the icon again if you wish to receive them again, it will return to the purple colour.
When the latest issue is available you will now receive an email alert from Fastmarkets Alert Service – alerts@notify.fastmarkets.com with a link to download the issue from the Fastmarkets Dashboard.
Please ensure you add this address to your safe senders list in your email application to make sure you do not miss out on the next issue.
Your email alert will look like this:
Click the Download latest report button to login to the Dashboard Reports Library to access the latest documents. Click the View forecast charts and commentary button to select a Market Page to view price forecast charts and analysis articles.
For more information on exporting and converting forecast prices please refer to this downloadable User Guide for short-term forecast content in the Dashboard
Fastmarkets’ battery raw materials long-term forecast content is published quarterly and provides prices, forecasts and 10-year outlooks for key battery materials that you can rely on to reflect supply and demand conditions now and for the future.
The Dashboard Reports Library is where you can find the latest issue(s) for the Fastmarkets’ battery raw materials long-term forecast publications within your subscription
· View and download one or all documents for the latest issue
· Receive email alerts to your inbox notifying you when the latest issue is available
· Access all content from Fastmarkets in one place; create custom workspaces with prices and/or news alongside your long-term forecast content (please note, this will depend on your Fastmarkets subscription)
Access to the content
Navigate to the Dashboard Reports Library by clicking on the Newsletters & Reports link in the left-hand menu. Depending on your Fastmarkets subscription it will default to either the Newsletters tab for our daily & weekly prices and news curated pdfs or the Forecasts tab. Click on Forecasts and Long-term to view the battery raw materials long-term forecast publications within your subscription in the Reports Tile view. This shows the name and date of the latest publication and the number of published files for the latest issue.
Receive and manage email alerts
By default, you will already be subscribed to receive email alerts when each new issue is published.
Your email alert will look like this. Click the purple Access this issue button to access the issue in the Dashboard Reports Library:
The bell icon denotes you are subscribed to email alerts. You can choose whether to receive them or not by clicking on this icon. Grey denotes unsubscribed, purple subscribed.
Hover your mouse over the white “i” information icon at the right of each publication to read more about what content is included.
Download the latest issue
Click on the chevron arrow to the left of the publication to expand and view/download the latest published files. Click on the View all documents link to download all to a zip file or individually. Depending on your browser they may appear in the top right or bottom of your screen. You can also find them in your Windows Explorer downloads folder.
For more information please refer to this downloadable User Guide for long-term forecasts in the Dashboard.
The Dashboard enables you to convert the base currency and/or unit of measure for prices so you can compare them on an apples-to-apples basis. Currency and unit conversion are available in the Single Price Tile, Multi Price Table, Historic Data Table and Price Chart widgets.
How to convert currency and or unit of measure:
Please note, it is not yet possible to convert the currency and/or unit of measure for exchange prices.
Customized Newsletters are published in PDF and HTML email formats on a daily and weekly basis based on the Dashboard Market page newsletter options you select.
Customized Newsletters have been designed for customers who wish to receive a digest via email / pdf of prices and/or news depending on their subscription or have previously received the Metal Bulletin or AMM Daily pdf’s.
The newsletters are accessible to you based on your access.
How to access newsletters?There are two ways to access newsletters settings in the Dashboard
Newsletter Center
Market pages
Newsletters can also be accessed from the market page directly once you have opened the page from the All Markets menu on the left sidebar.
How to set up newsletters to be delivered via email?If you want to receive newsletters via email, you can set this up through the dashboard.
Alternatively you can set up newsletters in a market page:
Review and change your newsletter options If you want to review what newsletters you have selected, you can do this in the Newsletter Center.
Access the newsletter archive
You can access past issues of any Daily or Weekly newsletter you have missed directly in the Dashboard
Please note newsletters are available from 6th October 2020 when this feature was added to the Dashboard.
What does the newsletter email notification contain?The newsletter email notification will contain the headline and a summary of the articles plus the pricing tables containing the latest actual assessments and monthly averages in that newsletter. When you click on a headline, it will open the full article in the dashboard. When you click on a symbol within a price table, it will open the price details in the dashboard.
Within the email you will find an ‘Open PDF newsletter’ button which allows you to download the PDF version of the newsletter. Please note you have to be a logged-in Fastmarkets dashboard user to be able to download PDF newsletters.How are Daily and Weekly PDF newsletters constructed?
The newsletter follows the structure and the content of the market page. If you would like to visit the market page which the newsletter is based on, you can access it through the link at the top of the newsletter.
The first section of the newsletter is called ‘Top stories’. This section highlights the most important daily news articles selected by the Fastmarkets Editorial team.Below the Top stories section, you will be able to see news articles and price tables. These are direct representations of the News list and Multi price table widgets in the market page. In the example below, the news section called ‘Steel news’ corresponds to the ‘Steel news’ widget in the market page.Similarly, the ‘Key steel coil prices’ section of the newsletter corresponds to the ‘Key steel coil prices’ widget in the market page. Please note that price tables in the newsletter have fixed fields and these fields may differ to what is displayed in the market page. These fields inlcude the latest actual assessments and monthly average prices.For more information please download a short User Guide.
Assessing historical prices is critical for understanding market trends, assessing volatility, and creating forecasts. View historical series for multiple prices in the Fastmarkets Dashboard either directly from the Price Chart widget (view up to eight prices) or in the Historic Price Table widget (view up to 20 prices).
To add the Historic Price Table widget, click Add Widgets > Historic Price Table, then search for and add prices.
Click Add to add the Historic Price Table widget to your workspace.
Click on the “Widget actions” menu and select “Edit widget” to add prices or click Settings to add more fields. The Historic Price Table widget will adjust the layout to maximize the pricing displayed.
You can re-order the prices added to the table if by hovering your mouse over the symbol, when the hand icon appears, then click and drag to the desired position.
Edit the date range in the Historic Price Table widget
By default, the Historic Price Table widget displays one year of prices.
This can be edited by selecting from pre-defined ranges in the dropdown menu, or by selecting a start and end date in the calendar picker.
View historical prices in a data table from the Price Chart widget
You can view historical prices in a data table from your Price Chart widget without navigating to a different widget or workspace. Click on the Line Chart menu above the legend to change the view to Data Table.
To return to the chart display, click Data Table in the top-left corner of the widget, then click Line Chart.
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