NYBOTLive, the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) real-time market data service for all NYBOT markets, today launched its new NYBOTLive Streaming Real Time Mobile Service, which pushes all of the exchange’s NYBOTLive real-time market data out to BlackBerry and other similar handheld devices. The Mobile option is available for free to all subscribers of NYBOTLive real-time data.
“This new service brings the vibrancy and the liquidity of our historic markets to anyone with a handheld and the proper connections,” said Walter Hines, NYBOT CFO. “Our exchange is always looking for new and innovative ways to improve our services, and the NYBOTLive Mobile service is just one example of this philosophy in action.”
In order to set up the mobile capability, NYBOTLive users are required to perform a onetime simple download of the new application and Sun Java Plug-in before accessing NYBOTLive charts and quotes on their handhelds. Please refer to the following download section on the NYBOTLive website for details of the download and use of the service: https://www.nybotlive.com/nlc_files/blackberryAccess.htm.
NYBOT’s market prices originate in each product’s trading pits, where numerous price reporters enter pricing data directly into hand-held wireless computers as trades are executed. The data then goes to NYBOT’s mainframe computers and out to the world through the traditional data vendors. With NYBOTLive, these same prices are now sent simultaneously to the NYBOT web site at www.nybotlive.com.
The New York Board of Trade launched NYBOTLive on March 17, 2003. The service provides streaming, real-time data in two different packages – both customizable and supported by a charting and analytical package to assist market watchers and traders in assessing the data. Market users can sign up for NYBOTLive Real Time Data services quickly, easily and inexpensively on the web. NYBOT streaming delayed data can be accessed for free just by registering at www.nybotlive.com.
NYBOTLive uses VeriSign to secure the NYBOTLive system. Security remains the primary concern of on-line consumers, and the VeriSign Secure Site Program allows one to learn more about web sites you visit before you submit any confidential information. Each VeriSign approved site, such as NYBOTLive, has a VeriSign Secure Server ID.
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York’s original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products. For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, as well as currency and index futures and options. Information about the New York Board of Trade can be found at www.nybot.com and www.nybotlive.com. To learn more about New York Board of Trade Futures & Options for Kids, the Exchange’s non-profit group, please go to www.futuresandoptionsforkids.org.
