Futures prices, time to maturity, open interest, volume, underlying
tickers, and last trade date of ten different commoditites: corn,
wheat, soybean, soybean meal, soybean oil, lumber, live cattle,
coffee, heating oil, copper.
There are, depending on the liquidity of the commodity, between 4 and
10 ‘clean’ closest to maturity futures price series.
Usage
data(futures)
Format
A list containing ten commodities as lists:
“corn”, “wheat”, “soybean”, “soybean.meal”,
“soybean.oil”, “lumber”, “live.cattle”,
“coffee”, “heating.oil”, “copper”.
Each list contains six dimnamed matrices:
price
Daily futures prices.
ttm
The time to maturity of the futures contracts
in units of days (see Details.)
oi
Open interest.
vol
Volume.
underl.tickers
Underlying tickers / contracts.
last.trade.dt
Last trade date as character in the ISO
8601 international standard format.
The i-th column of each matrix contains data for the i-th closest to
maturity contract. The i-th column name is the ticker of the i-th
generic futures.
Commodity
# Contracts
Exchange
Start date
End date
Corn
6
CBOT
1997-01-02
2010-04-07
Wheat
5
CBOT
1995-01-03
2010-04-07
Soybean
7
CBOT
1995-01-03
2010-04-07
Soybean meal
6
CBOT
2000-01-03
2010-04-07
Soybean oil
6
CBOT
1995-01-03
2010-04-07
Lumber
4
CME
1995-01-03
2010-04-07
Live cattle
6
CME
2004-07-01
2010-04-07
Coffee
5
ICE
1995-01-03
2010-04-07
Heating oil
10
NYMEX
1995-01-03
2010-03-31
Copper
8
COMEX
1996-01-02
2010-02-24
Details
The elements of price and ttm have the following
interpretation: price[i,j] denotes the futures price whose time
to maturity was ttm[i,j] days when it was observed.
Author(s)
Philipp Erb, David Luethi, Juri Hinz
See Also
futuresplot, fit.schwartz2f.
Examples
# data(futures)
#
# ## Plot forward curves of lumber
# futuresplot(futures$lumber, type = "forward.curve")
#
# ## Plot time to maturity of heating oil data
# futuresplot(futures$heating.oil, type = "ttm")
#
# ## Make 'futures' weekly, take Wednesday data
# futures.w <- rapply(futures, function(x)x[format(as.Date(rownames(x)), "%w") == 3,],
# classes = "matrix", how = "list")
#
# ## Make 'futures' monthly, take the 28th day of the month
# futures.m <- rapply(futures, function(x)x[format(as.Date(rownames(x)), "%d") == 28,],
# classes = "matrix", how = "list")
#
# ## Plot weekly lumber and monthly soybean data
# futuresplot(futures.w$lumber, type = "forward.curve", main = "Lumber")
# futuresplot(futures.m$soybean, type = "forward.curve", main = "Soybean")
#
# ## Convert to zoo-objects:
# require(zoo)
# futures.zoo <- rapply(futures, function(x)zoo(x, as.Date(rownames(x))),
# classes = "matrix", how = "list")
#
# ## ...and plot it nicely using plot.zoo:
# plot(futures.zoo$heating.oil$ttm)
# plot(futures.zoo$wheat$vol)
# plot(futures.zoo$copper$oi)
#
# ## Estimate soybean meal parameters (stop after 100 iterations).
# ## ttm (time-to-maturity) is divided by 260 as it is in unit of days and
# ## deltat = 1/52 because weekly price observations are used.
# soybean.meal.fit <- fit.schwartz2f(data = futures.w$soybean.meal$price,
# ttm = futures.w$soybean.meal$ttm / 260,
# deltat = 1 / 52, r = 0.04,
# control = list(maxit = 100))
# soybean.meal.fit