The research panel

Click any contract in the terminal and it opens into a research panel: the same view for every market, so comparing two contracts takes seconds. It is one keystroke from your chart, and it looks the same for an index future, a stock, a coin or a currency pair.

What the panel shows

• Three months of price, with the levels that mattered.
• Key statistics for the contract.
• Seasonality by hour of the day and by weekday: when the contract tends to move.
• Every daily return of the last quarter, so you can see the distribution, not just the average.

Using it before a trade

Seasonality shows the hours and weekdays a contract has tended to move, which helps with timing and with sizing around quiet or busy sessions. The daily returns show how large a normal day is, which is a sensible reference for where a stop belongs.

Reading it with Vig

Vig reads the same panel, so you can ask it to describe the chart or explain a statistic in plain words, and to compare what you see with your own trading in that contract.