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All About Muni Bond Indexes

We’re fielding lots of questions about muni bonds, specifically what muni bond indexes FastTrack carries and how to benchmark funds and ETFs against them.

Check out the muni bond index list below. FastTrack carries a full list of Bloomberg Barclays and Merril/ BofA bond indexes.

BBM-U – BBG Muni USD Idx
BBM-I – BBG Muni Bond Composite Idx
MLMM- – ML Municipal Master Div-Adj Ix
MLMH- – ML BofA US Muni Bd Yield Ix
BBM-1 – BBG Muni Bond 1yr Idx
BBM-3 – BBG Muni Bond 3yr Idx
BBM-5 – BBG Muni Bond 5yr Idx
BBM-7 – BBG Muni Bond 7yr Idx
BBM-T – BBG Muni Bond 10yr Idx
BBM-F – BBG Muni Bond 15yr Idx
BBM-2 – BBG Muni Bond 20yr Idx
BBM-L – BBG Muni Bond Long Term Idx
BBM-B – BBG Muni Bond 1-10yr Blend Idx
ML-BM – ICE US Broad Municipal Idx
MLMB- – ML BBB Grade Div-Adj Muni Ix
SP-MA – S&P Municipal Bond Accrual Idx
SP-MH – S&P Municipal Bond HY DivAjd I
SP-MP – S&P Municipal Bond Puerto Rico

Click on the link above to view our new FT Cloud shareable charts.

YTD Muni Composite vs Total Bond Market

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FastTrack Bulk License

FastTrack’s proud to announce a new bulk subscription licensing.

If you have 5 or more accounts, FastTrack can work with your firm to design a bulk license that provides more install and machine transfer flexibility, as well as consolidated billing dates.

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Currently, all FT4web subscriptions are limited to a single computer, with a nominal charge on every computer transfer.

With our bulk license, we’ll discuss the right number of accounts for your firm, then open them up for more computer portability. We’ll do an annual or quarterly usage audit and adjust the price going forward based on the prior period’s computer usage.

Train every summer intern. Install all around the office. Test it out at home. At the end of the quarter or year, we’ll see how you’re using it and adjust.

Get In Touch

Reach out to us at accounts@fasttrack.net or call us at (866) 295-0166.

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Calling All Beta Testers

Help shape the future of FastTrack

FastTrack is now piloting a browser-based tool and looking for beta testers to drive the functionality and design.

If you have opinions to share and want to be on in on the latest innovations from FastTrack then this is the opportunity for you!

Email beta@fasttrack.net for more details on this exciting opportunity.

Expanding the Data Catalog

Indexes, More Indexes!

FastTrack is expanding and improving our products and service.

We’re hard at work adding, removing, pruning, and editing the database. In 1988 we started with just over 100 tickers, we surpassed 22k last month.

In the past 6 months alone we’ve added:

  • 800 addition indexes
  • 5000+ open end funds
  • 100+ money markets
  • 400+ ETFs

We’re most proud of our index additions. We now include approximately 1200 indexes, up from 300 in 2018. We’ve loaded up S&P, GSCI, MSCI, Dow Jones, NYSE, CBOE, popular crypto, and now includes an expanded set of economic indicators and rates.

We’re adding daily, and if we’re missing a security that’s important to you, give us a call at (866) 295-0166 or email data@fasttrack.net and we’ll get it in ASAP.

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Trade for FastTrack Upgrade

Trade for FastTrack v4.4 now available!

We are excited to announce the v4.4 of Trade for FastTrack! 

v4.4 is an upgrade to Trade v4.3 and now properly adjusts for splits. The new release is compiled and maintained by FastTrack. We will continue to support this version in the future.

Users who are using v4.3 for the portfolio block function need not worry! Trade for FastTrack v4.4 maintains the full function of the portfolios block while giving the user faster speeds and other improvements.

What is Trade?

Ed Gilbert created Trade for FastTrack, a remarkable 3rd party product, in the early 2000s. It automates various functions that are useful in technical analysis and trading.

Functions provided by the program include ranking, automated trading, analysis and optimization of automated trading strategies, portfolio FNU generation, generation and analysis of signals, and a powerful expression parser and FNU file generation tool. 

Who should use Trade for FastTrack?

Trade for FastTrack is available free of charge and only requires an updated subscription to FT4web.

Get started today! Full documentation and examples are ready for you in the download package below. With a quick study, you will be up and running in no time.

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Download Trade v4.4 here: https://www.fasttrack.net/downloads/trade4.4.0.2.zip

Full Documentation can be downloaded here:
http://invfasttrack.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TRADE.pdf

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