QuoteOriginally posted by: acastaldo"final settlement price" is used to settle, i.e. to arrange multi-million dollar cash flows between longs and shorts. If you use it as a guideline to trading you can use "preliminary settlement price" which is available within minutes of the 3:15 close and is in any case identical to the final settlement in the vast majority of cases. So this warning to wait until 6pm for final settlement is a red herring for your purposes.tx acastaldo, is this file '
ftp://ftp.cmegroup.com/pub/settle/stleqt' where I can find"preliminary settlement price"?I just check the website. the first time of data publishing is at about 3:45 PM (CT). TX, acastaldo.