A proposed real-time monitor and data analyzer for an American commodity exchange
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Authors
Bentley, Brian Smith
Subjects
Commodity trading
Real-time monitors
Commodity exchanges
Graphic-display information systems
Commodity prediction, real-time
Securities
Commodities, real-time monitors
Commodity exchange information systems
Management information systems, real-time
Real-time monitors
Commodity exchanges
Graphic-display information systems
Commodity prediction, real-time
Securities
Commodities, real-time monitors
Commodity exchange information systems
Management information systems, real-time
Advisors
Barksdale, G.L.
Date of Issue
1970-06
Date
June 1970
Publisher
Monterey, California; Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis considers the application of real-time digital information systems to the field of professional trading of commodities. Pertinent factors involved with the interfacing of a monitor system with a commodity exchange, and with professional trading interests, are considered. Skeletal functional outlines of factual and predictive displays are proposed from the monitoring of a general market environment to the monitoring of specific user positions in the environment. Elements of a monitoring system are implemented on an IBM 360-67 configured with an IBM 2250 Graphic Display Unit operating with OS/MVT. Due to the highly subjective nature of commodity decision-making, a scarcity of relevant published information in this area, and the author's lack of extensive trading experience, this thesis addresses itself only to the acquisition, summarization and presentation of objective information. Any presumption of data interpretation is left to the user.
Type
Thesis
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Department
Department of Business Administration and Economics
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.