What's New in 5.7

Funds Search

Infront Pro Plus terminal provides global coverage of over 382 000 funds and ETP instruments. Funds search engine makes this broad universe easily searchable and screenable.

User can search and screen funds by several predefined criteria in addition to free text search:

•Availability in a country

•Main/base currency

•Category (provided by Morningstar)

•Regions invested

•Fund type

•Issuer

•Fund style (Style map by Morningstar)

•Risk level (provided by Morningstar)

•Star rating (provided by Morninigstar)

Funds that have several underlying currencies are grouped in the search result for the best overview of the fund's structure and currencies it is defined in. Use expand/collaps function by clicking on +/-. Funds can be added to the Composite list by drag-drop to create personal lists a user can use over and over again.

Fund Overview

Fund overview pages provide users with a quick overview of a fund with regards to its historical performance, risk profile and holdings.

Fund overview window is integrated with the rest of the terminal and creates possibility for further analysis of the fund as well as the holdings.

Clicking on NAV brings the user to historical NAV values. In addition, user can click on 'Top Holdings' heading to get a composite list containing all the holdings with interesting market data. User can also click on each and every holding to get a closer look at it. For example, user can access Company pages for the listed holdings where he can perform fundamental analysis as well as look at the consensus estimates.

Details page provides further qualitative information about the fund such as its investment mandate and managers. User also gets an overview of other funds issued by the same issuer in the same currency. To see all the funds by the same issuer, user can simply click on the 'Other funds from this issuer' heading.

FX forward calculator

FX forward calculator has become more user friendly. User can now use the Amounts section by defining an amount by typing in codes K for thousand and M for million. Typing in 25M will fill in the Buy/Sell section with an amount of 25,000,000.

Setting up broken date schedules is now easier - user can use different date codes to define a date or add a certain period to a current date.

Consolidated data

In the 5.7 release the consolidated data has been given a lift, both visually and content wise.

Consolidated orderbook has been given a new, slimmed down and space reducing look.

Main concept of the consolidated orderbook is easy access to a true picture of the fragmented equity markets.  User has access to a consolidated orderbook from a regular orderbook by pressing the ∑ button in the bottom right corner of an orderbook.

Consolidated orderbook not only gives a comprehensive view over where and how a stock is trading, but also gives real time statistics on traded volume distribution.

Coloured bars in the consolidated orderbook represent traded volume in % on each venue. This feature takes both real time and delayed data in its calculation in order for the user to actually get the full true picture of how fragmented the equity markets are today. This information can be complemented with an additional bar showing the intra day order volume distribution in the order book setup.

User also has the ability to quickly get a break down overview of where the liquidity is at any given moment by hitting the plus sign on the left side of the instrument name in the top summary  bar:

Auction Surplus

Infront terminal now supports the display of any imbalance volume in an opening or closing auction on the following exchanges; Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm & Oslo. The Nasdaq OMX volumes are supported by the exchange while Infront calculates the estimated imbalance volume on the Oslo Stock Exchange. More exchanges will be added to this service.

Screen shot below shows the current imbalance in an orderbook, it is  3 835 shares more offered than what will actually uncross in the auction. Uncrossing volume being 412 900.

The feature is enabled under the Visual preferences in in the Orderbook setup.

Quick order entry

The 5.7 version introduces a tighter and more space compact alternative to the standard order entry window.

The setting is enabled in the Visual preferences in the Orderbook Setup by unchecking the Show orderbook box. Once this setting has been activated the feature can be toggled on/off by pressing F9.

Statistics line

Infront has added functionality in the chart which enables you to to view important statistic data for a selected period.

Click Annotations and select Statistics Line

Press Ctrl and draw with the mouse from start point to end point to create the line. Automatically the statistical information for that period is displayed.