Service provides access to extensive tick, bar and daily time series data

CHICAGO, IL – July 13, 2010 – Barchart.com, Inc., a leading provider of market data and information, today announced the launch of a new high-powered historical market data feed service which provides on-demand access to historical market data for institutions and individuals. The service is accessible via Barchart’s proprietary historical data API using web services and allows access to extensive sets of historical futures, stock, forex and index market data.  The service can be integrated into third-party front-end applications for charting, back-testing and analysis, as well as into middle and back-office systems that are used for risk management and accounting. The data feed provides access to unfiltered tick data, as well as interval-based bar data and end-of-day market data.

“There are many financial firms which only offer real-time data to their clients, so we developed a historical data feed which can be plugged into their applications to supply their clients with data for charts and other analytics,” said Eero Pikat, President of Barchart. “Our historical service is on-demand, so users of it can request historical data when they need it directly from our servers and receive it instantly,” added Pikat.

Barchart’s historical data inventory is extensive, covering futures, stocks, indices, forex and funds.  The breadth of coverage extends back to 1-year for complete tick data, over 2-years for n-minute bar data, and back to contract inception for end-of-day futures data and to 1988 for stocks. As a web services based feed, Barchart’s historical data service requires minimal development to integrate into third-party applications and systems.  The service is entirely managed and hosted by Barchart, so clients do not need to maintain any historical market data.

To learn more, visit www.barchartmarketdata.com.

Barchart has added a Twitter feed with daily updates regarding:

1.  Barchart Morning Call -  a brief on the US markets before they open and a concise summary of international market activity that occurred overnight

2.  Barchart Chart of the Day – a daily featured stock, fund, index or futures contract selected by Barchart’s head of research

3.  Hot Stocks on Barchart.com – top performing stocks on the day

4.  Barchart Opinions – top buy/ sell signals

5.  Updates to Barchart Portfolios – daily changes in Barchart’s portfolios

6.  Other key market indicators, like Heat Map activity in these asset classes: Forex Heat Map, Futures Heat Map and Stock Market Heat Map

Visit the Barchart Twitter page here: http://twitter.com/barchart or username “barchart”

CHICAGO, IL – March 31, 2010 – AgriCharts, the agricultural division of Barchart.com, Inc., which provides market data, website hosting and technology solutions to agribusinesses, today announced the launch of GrainProfessional, a monthly print publication for grain merchandisers, procurement managers and other buyers of grain. GrainProfessional features topics that are important to grain buyers, hedgers and basis traders. GrainProfessional has assembled an industry leading group of contributors and will feature articles on grain market analysis, weather’s impact on agriculture, market research and merchandising strategy, as well as interviews with grain merchandisers.

“AgriCharts is dedicated to providing valuable services and content to the agricultural industry and the launch of GrainProfessional demonstrates our commitment,” said Eero Pikat, President of Barchart and Publisher of GrainProfessional.  “By combining topics that are the most significant to grain merchandisers, we have developed a unique publication for this influential group of professionals who facilitate price discovery and provide liquidity to cash and derivative grain markets,” added Pikat.

GrainProfessional also features a cover story and key summary market data from Barchart. Also, in addition to staff writers and editors, GrainProfessional contributors include Garrett Toay of AgTraderTalk, Craig Solberg of Freese-Notis Weather, Alan Brugler of Brugler Marketing & Management, and Eugene Kunda, Ph.D. from the Office for Futures and Options Research at University of Illinois. In addition to the print publication, GrainProfessional will feature an online perspective through weekly live educational webinars covering topics included in the monthly publication, as well as others, presented by professionals from throughout the industry.

“GrainProfessional features an impressive line-up of contributors and mixture of content,” said Mark Haraburda, Managing Director of Barchart and Editor-in-Chief of GrainProfessional. “We are also supplementing the monthly print publication with weekly webinars which will provide grain merchandisers with an ongoing selection of live and recorded presentations on important industry topics,” added Haraburda.

The GrainProfessional publication and webinars are available for free. To subscribe to GrainProfessional or register for a webinar, please visit www.GrainProfessional.com or call 877-247-4394.

PRESS RELEASE: Barchart Launches Extensive ETF Fundamental Data Service

CHICAGO, IL – March 4, 2010 – Barchart.com, Inc., a leading provider of market data and information, today announced the launch of a new Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) fundamental data service. The fundamental ETF dataset, including Exchange Traded Notes (ETN), is an extensive database of reference, financial and price related information covering all U.S. listed ETFs and ETNs. The dataset is available from Barchart as a data feed service, as well as hosted website content.

 “ETFs are a unique financial instrument, not to be treated like stocks, not to be treated like mutual funds. Barchart analysts have spent considerable time analyzing the dynamics of the ETF marketspace, to compile a dataset that is relevant and important to market professionals in the wealth management, index, and advisory fields,” said Eero Pikat, President of Barchart. “Our dataset offers a singular source for the key data points needed to make critical analytical decisions for ETFs and ETNs,” added Pikat.

Barchart’s fundamental ETF data includes over 900 ETFs and dozens of data fields, including sectors, top holdings, assets under management, fund family information, and key financial ratios and returns. In addition to the most comprehensive ETF fundamental database available, Barchart also provides real-time, delayed, end-of-day and historical ETF price data.

To learn more, visit www.barchart.com/solutions.

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ETF FUNDAMENTAL DATA FIELDS

Barchart aggregates and manages ETF and ETN Fundamental Data. Fundamental Data fields available for ETFs/ETNs include but are not limited to the following:

Barchart / Digital Data Feed offers a variety of historical market data, including Daily, N-Minute and Tick, across numerous markets.  Our markets include US stocks, futures, mutual funds, indices, as well as global futures, various international stocks and forex.

Our historical market data can be delivered on-demand using query/response data feeds (web services) or as a single download.

Below is a table summarizing our historical market data inventory.  You can also view this table at: http://bcs.barchart.com/solutions_datafeed_inventory.php

A critical component to a well-functioning and efficient cash / physical commodity marketplace is the availability and distribution of local or regional cash commodity prices.  Within the agricultural markets local grain elevators and cooperatives (buyers of grain) calculate and distribute their local cash prices (bids) to local producers (sellers of grain).  The grain buyer’s bids are based off the elevator’s/coop’s basis and a specific futures contract.   The grain buyer posts bids for multiple delivery periods, usually months, with varying basis levels for those periods.

Some elevators have multiple locations and buy multiple commodities which increases the number of cash bids they must calculate each day.  This task becomes quite time-consuming without an automated process.  AgriCharts, the agricultural division of Barchart, provides web-based cash grain bid management solutions for grain elevators, cooperatives and other buyers of grain.  AgriCharts’ solutions include cash bid integration with third-party systems, calculation, distribution and cash bid displays.  AgriCharts’ solutions are designed to make the cash grain bid management and distribution process more efficient and effective.

Here are some examples of AgriCharts hosted cash grain bid displays:

http://www.elkhartgrain.com/pages/custom.php?id=14724

http://www.statelinecoop.com/markets/cashgrid.php?basis=1

Click on the cash bid prices for a chart.

View a video about AgriCharts cash grain bid management here: http://media.agricharts.com/class/Overview2-2/Overview2-2.html

The new Barchart.com features a Chart of the Day.   A chart is choosen each day for a stock, future, index or forex pair using Barchart’s indicators and screeners.

Here is today’s Chart of the Day.

The “Chart of the Day” is the Acxiom Corp (ACXM), which showed up on today’s Barchart “Signals – Top 100 Stocks” list. Acxiom today is consolidating below Wednesday’s 2-1/3 year high. Axciom, with a market cap of $1.2 billion, provides IT data and systems outsourcing services for its enterprise clients. Acxiom on Jan 28 reported fiscal-Q3 EPS of 18 cents, which was above the market consensus of 15 cents. Stephens on Jan 28 reiterated its Overweight rating on Axiom and raised its target to $21 from $15 due its view that Axciom’s earnings report was impressive and that Axciom has a positive outlook with reasonable valuation. Baird on Jan 25 upgraded Acxiom to Outperform from Neutral and raised the target to $20 from $11 due to the improving marketing environment, earnings leverage, and improving sales efficiency.

How we found the Chart of the Day:

We found the “Chart of the Day” by scanning the Barchart “Signals – Top 100 Stocks” list. The Top 100 Stocks ranks stocks by a combination of their overall opinion, signal strength and signal direction to come up with a list of the top 100 stocks by opinion. Each analytic used within the signals is rated by signal strength and direction. The strengths are allocated 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 points; the directions are allocated 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 points. This gives a maximum of 55 points per signal. The totals are added up depending on buy, sell and hold rating and ranked 1 to 100 for the top 100 bullish stocks and the top 100 bearish stocks. The signal strength and signal direction ratings are available from the advanced opinion pages. Signal strength and signal direction are independent of the signals rating.

Barchart’s Opinion trading systems are all a Buy and Barchart’s Trendspotter trading system is a “Buy.”

• Trendspotter: Buy
• Short-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
• Medium-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
• Long-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
• Overall Average 100% Buy

Barchart acquired Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) in 2001.   Through our CRB division we maintain pricing on over 1,000 futures and financial instruments in addition to options on futures and cash prices.  We also maintain extensive history with some market data back to the early 1900s.  This data is available through CRB’s DataCenter product and represents one of the most complete sources of commodity focused market data in the industry.  CRB was founded in 1934 and is regarded as a premier provider of commodity market information and data.

Please email me at haraburda@barchart.com if you would like to see a list of our CRB data inventory.

Markets covered include: Grains, Oilseeds, Livestock, Softs, Metals, Energy, Equity Indices, Commodity Indices, Interest Rates, Economic Indicators, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, Foodstuffs, Industrials

Have you seen the new Barchart.com?  Barchart.com was first launched in 1995 and is one of the largest websites for futures and commodities data, as well as a major financial portal.  The new site has an assortment of new content and a redesigned style, layout and navigation.  Visit the new site today at www.barchart.com/beta.

More information:

The Barchart.com beta site provides valuable new features and content, as well as major navigational and style enhancements, offering market participants enhanced access to key market information to support their trading and investment decisions.  The site is now available to the public with dynamic market data and information covering futures, equity, forex and index markets.  Barchart.com was first launched in 1995 and has grown to become a premier website for financial market information, especially for the technical analysis of futures, stocks and forex.  The new website will serve as a platform to further enhance Barchart’s popular brand and proprietary content, as well as provide support for future content additions.

“The new version of Barchart.com preserves the rich set of content and features we have provided to investors, traders and market participants since 1995, and at the same time, enhances our users’ experience on our site by making our financial content easier to access and consume,” said Barchart President Eero Pikat.  “Combined with enhancements like a powerful My Barchart service, advanced screeners, expanded ETF and Forex information, and the addition of newswire sources like the Associated Press, the new Barchart offers an even more comprehensive financial market destination for all market participants,” continued Pikat.

Key functional and style enhancements include:

• A redesigned homepage layout featuring a broad overview of all markets, rotating featured content and intuitive top menus for easy navigation through multiple markets segments such as stocks, futures, forex, mutual funds and ETFs.
• An innovative menu structure that combines intuitive top and side navigation, as well as bread crumbs, enhancing the users’ ability to quickly navigate to desired content and find new information.
• Style and color enhancements designed to effectively balance site navigation and core content.

New features and content include:

• A powerful “My Barchart” free membership service providing access to a wide variety of valuable tools, including: custom portfolio and chart builders; historical price, technical and opinion data; and custom site preferences such as unique quote board and chart views.
• A valuable market analysis section called the “Barchart Chart of the Day” which features a new stock, futures contract or forex pair each day selected by Barchart’s analysts using a combination of proprietary indicators.
• Composite quote pages combining thumbnail charts, data (prices, technicals and fundamentals), Barchart opinions, support and resistance levels, and the latest market news, as well as the choice of two chart styles, both Barchart’s classic charts and a new charting package.
• An innovative daily resource called the “Trader’s Cheat Sheet” which provides data on over 40 key technical indicators each day for every stock, future, currency and index Barchart covers.
• A new Advanced Market Screener which allows users to perform a series of simple to advanced screens on thousands of financial instruments.
• Expanded news coverage featuring AP Financial News and a variety of other sources.
• A comprehensive Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) section featuring advanced ETF categorization and screening, as well as an expanded Forex section which includes data on over 600 cross-rates.
• Dynamic flashing price updates as the market moves, as well as new intra-day updates on Barchart technicals and opinions.
• The addition of market Heats Maps which provide users with a quick visual glance of inter-market and inter-sector performance.
• The addition of an in-depth Education section providing traders and investors of all levels with access to leading reference and training materials.

The beta version is available at www.barchart.com/beta.  Visitors are provided with full access to the beta site, as well as the ability to provide feedback and questions.  Barchart will operate the beta site in parallel with the existing version of Barchart.com for a transitional period that will last until the majority of users have transitioned to the new site.

“Before we completely switch over to the beta site we not only want our users to be comfortable with the new service, we also want them to feel a vast enhancement in their experience when using our website,” said Pikat.  “The combination of valuable financial content and the ability to easily consume it provides market participants with an edge—and that is what we deliver,” added Pikat.