WSI Energycast For Traders

Energycast PowerTrader™ | Energycast Europe™ | Energycast NatGas™ | Energycast Point™ | Energycast WxTrader™

WSI Energycast PowerTrader™

Even moderate changes in weather can drive significant changes in energy prices. WSI offers energy trading professionals quick, accurate, easy-to-interpret weather data that delivers the critical insight required to make decisions that minimize risk and maximize profits.

WSI Energycast PowerTrader provides:

• User configurable, color-coded 0-10 day city forecast table
• 0-5 day, 6-10 day, and 11-15 day graphical and textual forecasts
• A four-month seasonal outlook updated twice monthly
• Alerts covering heat, cold and tropical events pushed via email and the web for market moving weather
• Views of the latest output from the GFS, ECMWF, Canadian, and NAM weather models
• Load forecasts for key power pools provided by industry leading load forecasting sources
• Access to historical daily and hourly data
• Tropical forecasts for both the Atlantic basin and Gulf of Mexico

WSI Energycast Europe™

Even moderate changes in weather can drive significant changes in the UK gas market and European power markets. WSI offers energy trading professional’s quick, accurate, easy-to-interpret weather data that delivers the critical insight required to make decisions that minimize risk and maximize profits.

WSI Energycast Europe provides:

User configurable, color-coded 0-10 day city forecast table for temperature and precipitation

• 0-5 day, 6-10 day, and 11-15 day graphical and textual forecasts
• A four-month seasonal outlook issued monthly
• Ability to view the latest output from the GFS, Canadian, and ECMWF weather models
• Wind and Hydro forecasts for key generation regions
• Tropical forecasts for the Atlantic basin and Gulf of Mexico
• Real-time weather integrated into graphics, tables, and plots

WSI Energycast NatGas™

Weather is one of the most important factors influencing the direction of natural gas prices. WSI Energycast NatGas™ provides natural gas traders with quick, accurate, easy-to-interpret weather data, enabling them to make critical market decisions to maximize profit and minimize risk.

WSI Energycast NatGas™ provides:

• User configurable side-by-side forecast temperature graphics for the three gas census regions
• Succinct text commentary on the temperature forecast – allowing users to quickly gauge forecast confidence and potential uncertainty
• User configurable, color-coded 0-10 day city forecast table depicting temperature data and deviations from normal
• Quick access to market moving gas storage information and analyses
• Population weighted degree day forecasts and observations for the three gas census regions
• Concise commentary and graphics, alerting users to important changes in the weather models during the midday period

WSI Energycast Point™

Zero in on the forecasts for specific points of interest with WSI Energycast Point™. Energycast Point supports a wide variety of data formats and delivers data via a number of channels (ftp push, ftp pull, email, etc.). Whether seeking input for a load model or data for back-office analysis, Energycast Point delivers location-specific information in a ready-to-use format.

WSI Energycast Point™ provides:

• Access to superior forecasts thanks to extensive research efforts and a continuous focus on validation
• Forecasts based on your specified parameters (cities, timeframes, etc.)
• Historical data
• Data delivery via your preferred channel – email, ftp, etc.

WSI Energycast WxTrader

For operations trading weather contracts over the exchanges, or structuring weather contracts tailored to the needs of industry end users, WSI’s Energycast HourlyTrader™ is a must have tool. WSI worked in conjunction with one of the top traders in the industry to develop a product that delivers the most relevant, up-to-date forecasting information on the market today.

Here are just a few of the features in this powerhouse product:

• Specified degree-day forecasts and observations for the most actively traded U.S. locations
• Monthly degree-day forecasts out to 3 months for all U.S. locations traded on the CME
• WSI's forecasts from current week to three months ahead (including confidence and rationales)
• Easy-to-master user interface for quick navigation through graphics and tables
• Contract focused data for the most traded cities in the U.S.
• Data access via a secure password-protected Internet connection
• 24 x 7 access to WSI's award winning customer support