Tutorials

Welcome On Board

A brief overlay of how to get quickly up-and-running with Portara

Goes through general concepts using the features within Portara

How To Install Portara

All Versions Installation with special coverage for Blox Users

Full Installation procedures for 14 Day Trial and subscription installation. See how to create automatic FuturesInfo.txt file and use Blox and Portara together.

Great Feature

Automatic FuturesInfo.txt File Creation

Create FuturesInfo.txt file automatically for Trading Blox users with Portara and CQG Data

Where Has the Open Gone?

An Analysis of Standard Daily Data and Regular Trading Hours Data

If you use volatility-off-the-open or momentum based systems then consider watching this video. It shows the impact of RTH as a superior alternative to standard dailty data and shows why. There is a real justification for CTA’s to consider in many contexts whether standard daily data is dead.

Daily Database with 5 Price Points!

Portara’s daily database is unique in the fact it contains 5 daily price points

When you choose to output to text file you can select Open, High, Low and for close you now have the choice of either LastPrice or Settle.

 

• Now you can create data mark-to-market for administration and back office duties and..
• …if your traders prefer, you can run off your text data including the lastPrice as a more robust alternative.

Using Compression Manager

Tips and Hints on its use

Weekend Data
Customised Symbology
Setting Timestamp Models
CQG Indicative Daily Data – things to remember
Customised Session Template- creation and setting
Setting overall templates for the Compression Manager

Checking to Actual Contracts

How to check your compressed data acainst actual contracts.

DST Adjustments with the Compression Manager Explained
Adjustments for Exchange Timestamp Explained
How to check your data.

Multiple Symbols

How to Create Multiple symbols all of the same name

Different variants of a symbol can be created. E.g BP with 5 min and a different session time structure than BP 10 minutes etc. Complete flexibility.
Create deferred contract setups for looking for edges outside of nearest future.
Create multiple templates.

Using Automated Updates

Tips and Hints on its use

Using Update API
Running Automated Roll Manager
Running Automated Compression Manager
Running Automated Executables
Automating via Zone – Pacific Rim | Early Europe | US | Rest of World

Batch Files

How to Create and Run a Batch File

If you need multiple automated templates for all different varieties of data. Use a batch file.

File Backups

Tips and Hints on Backups and Application Updates

Talks about Application Updates and how to install them. Where Backups of User Files are stored and how to retrieve them. Also covers missing and corrupted files and how to repair them.

Local v Exchange

How to use Local Timestamp Model and compare that to Exchange Timestamp Model

An advanced tutorial comparing local timestamp modelling to exchange timestamp modelling within Portara. Create data and “prove” the data is correct with a shift in timestamps.

Roll By Sessions

Custom End Of Session Roll Paradigm

You can now roll by using the new customisable end of session model or you may choose to roll based on the standard daily end of day model. You choose…

Multiple Sessions

How to Use Multiple Sessions

Create multiple sessions in your back-adjusted data. If the exchange changes its opening and closing times you can set unlimited start and end sessions to coincide to these changes by date from market inception.

Robustness Testing

Change the volatility of your data, Randomise the Opens and Closes and much more...

Test how sensitive your strategies are to increases and decreases in the underlying volatility of symbols you trade. If your systems are sensitive to the whereabouts of the open and closes in markets you may randomise the opens and closes to stress test these areas. Watch the video to see live examples.

What has rolled today?

How to find out simply what has rolled today...

Setup Portara so that it will open a daily report of which markets in your portfolio have rolled. This small demonstration also looks at two different types of roll algorithm that you may find useful.

Best Place To Roll?

Where is the best place to Roll A Futures Contract

I am often asked where the best place is to roll a futures contract even from seasoned traders. There are many variants but in the end it boils down to a date and an underlying reason why. If you don’t know the nuances of the various sectors and markets that have developed over the years and why for instance you need to choose long periods in the metals before expiry date compared to only a day or so in the indexes then you face problems. This presentation demonstrates a few very simple methods of how to determine an optimal place; a sweet-spot to work with. I discuss a method to find best roll position for TYAA (Financials) Metals and Dax. You can apply the same reasoning and logic to any globally traded future by simply observing behaviour..

12 Core Work station

Parallel Processing at Its Finest!

Watch Portara run in parallel on a 12 core machine built by TitanUS based in Florida. They ship worldwide and Portara recommends them for any large production machines you may require.
Remember Hovever: Portara will operate on any 64 bit machine running Windows including laptops.