Commodity Price Manual

This manual describes how to use commodity prices with Tackler.

This is feature is only available on development version of Tackler

Detailed information

• PriceDB file and format

• Commodity and Share valuation models (Mark to Market models)

  • Current Market Value

  • Historic Market Value

  • Variable Market Value

Summary

There are three different use cases for initial price data support:

1. Current valuation of commodities, shares and currencies

2. Historical valuation of commodities, shares and currencies, at certain point in time

3. Simulation with historical price data. For example

   1. Historical purchasing power of money analysis

   2. Market value analysis of produced commodity (e.g. electricity)

Price Data lookup types

last-price

Last recorded rate in PriceDB

given-time

Before given timestamp

txn-time

At transaction time or nearest before the txn time

See Current Market Value, Historic Market Value and Variable Market Value for detailed information.

Features

See Price Data Features document for full listing of features to handle price data.