S&P CNX Nifty Index futures delisted: July 3, 2023

CME Eurodollar futures delisted: June 21, 2023

CME Eurodollar futures transitioning to SOFR: April 17, 2023

Available Database Upgrades

Fixing Connection Problems

DataTools & Windows Operating Systems

De-Listed Contracts

Problems with Continuous Contracts

S&P CNX Nifty Index futures delisted: July 3, 2023

Effective close of trading on Friday the 30th of June 2023, the SGX has suspended trading in the Nifty 50 futures contract, pending complete delisting.

To remove the Nifty 50 from your Futures database, please follow the instructions shown here > De-Listed Contracts

CME Eurodollar futures delisted: June 21, 2023

Following the expiry of the June 2023 contract, CME Eurodollar futures have now been completely delisted.

To remove Eurodollars from your Futures database, please follow the instructions shown here > De-Listed Contracts

CME Eurodollar futures transitioning to SOFR: April 17, 2023

Effective COB Friday the 14th of April 2023, all open positions in CME Eurodollar futures for contract months greater than June 2023, were converted into CME Three-Month SOFR futures (SR3) contracts, for the same month on a 1:1 basis with a price adjustment of 26.161bp. The converted CME Eurodollar contracts have now been delisted.

Further information on this topic can be found here.

CME Eurodollars will become completely delisted upon the expiry of the June 2023 contract on the 20th of June.

Available Database Upgrades

The following markets are currently available as database upgrades in DataTools:

Market

Code

Added

No upgrades are currently available

Fixing Connection Problems

Occasionally DataTools may have trouble connecting to one of our data servers.

If you experience any issues where DataTools cannot connect or it is not updating past a certain date, you can try changing the server that DataTools connects to.

You can do this on the Update Window in DataTools, by changing the "Server Selection" to try each of the 4 servers in turn.

DataTools & Windows Operating Systems

Microsoft has ended support for the following operating systems and service packs:

Operating System	Date
Windows 98	July 11 2006
Windows ME	July 11 2006
Windows 2000	July 13 2010
Windows XP SP2	July 13 2010
Windows Vista SP1	July 12 2011
Windows XP SP3	April 08 2014
Windows Vista SP2	April 11 2017
Windows 7 SP1	January 14 2020

As such, we are advising potential clients that they need to have Windows 8.1 (or above) in order to run our updating products. Whilst DataTools should continue to function under W98/ME/2k/XP/Vista and Win7, we can no longer guarantee that it will work seamlessly. In particular, problems may arise when we issue an automatic upgrade to a program component. If you are using an earlier version of windows and you find that an upgrade causes the program to fail, you can usually work around the problem simply by doing a program re-install. Program installers are always available for this purpose from the Downloads area of our website.

Contracts De-listed

To remove a market from the database, use Windows to delete the relevant market sub-folder from the ...\Futures\Contracts\ folder (or cut-and-paste it to an archive) If you're not sure where your "Futures" folder is located, you can read the location from the DataTools Configuration page, where the entry for "Data Folder" shows the path to its top level. (Program Utilities / Configuration / General). The default installation path is c:\Trading Data\Futures\.

Redundant continuous contracts can be removed (along with any unwanted continuous contracts) by using the "Remove Contracts" command in the DataTools Continuous Contracts module.

The following markets have been de-listed since the DataTools service commenced:

Exchange	Market Name
ASX	All Ords SPI
ASX	Australian Dollar (SFE)
ASX	Barley (SFE)
ASX	Broad Wool
ASX	Canola (ASX)*
ASX	Canola (SFE)
ASX	Cattle (SFE)
ASX	Fine Wool
ASX	Greasy Wool
ASX	Sorghum (ASX)*
ASX	Sorghum (SFE)
ASX	W.A. Wheat (ASX)*
ASX	Wheat (SFE)
CME Group	E-mini Russell 2000 (code=ER delisted in 2008)
CME Group	Ethanol*
CME Group	Deutschemark
CME Group	Dow Jones
CME Group	Eurodollar
CME Group	Nasdaq 100
CME Group	Pork Bellies (Frozen)
CME Group	S&P 500
CME Group	S&P 500 F
CME Group	Treasury Bills
CME Group	Unleaded Gas
Eurex	Nemax 50
ICE Futures Canada	Western Barley
ICE Futures Europe	Euro-Swiss
ICE Futures Europe	Short Sterling
ICE Futures US	Cocoa
ICE Futures US	Coffee
ICE Futures US	Continuous Commodity Index
ICE Futures US	Cotton
ICE Futures US	Gold 100oz*
ICE Futures US	Orange Juice
ICE Futures US	Russell 2000 Mini
ICE Futures US	Silver 5000oz*
ICE Futures US	Sugar #11
ICE Futures US	US Dollar Index
MGEX	Wheat (MGEX)
NYSE Liffe	Euro-Lira
NYSE Liffe	Euro-Mark
NYSE Liffe	Italian Govt. Bond
NYSE Liffe	Coffee (LIFFE)
SGX	Euroyen TIBOR*
SGX	S&P CNX Nifty Index
SGX	Taiwan Index

*Contract was still listed for trading at the time of removal.

Problems with Continuous Contracts

General Advice

If any problem is noticed with a continuous contract, the first thing to try is to re-build the contract from scratch. Continuous contracts are made from the data in your underlying futures database. As long as this data is sound, you can always quickly re-create a continuous contract. The Continuous Contracts module can be accessed from the chain-link icon, or from under the Tools item on the DataTools menu line. See below for a complete description of the process.

Re-creating Continuous Contracts

Open DataTools and select "Tools" from the menu line and then "Continuous Contracts".
Highlight the market in question and click "Edit Roll Settings".
Make sure that the "End Year" setting shows some year beyond the current year (towards the bottom of the Annual Template window)
Click "Save & Exit"
With the market in question still highlighted, click "Create Contracts".