Kowloon, Hong Kong -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/14/2014 -- Asian FTG announced today the launch of the next generation online Commodity Investment Resource Center developed four clients. The re-designed Commodity Resource Center offers leading-edge graphical charts that give unique insights into the commodities market at a glance, and a host of advanced tools and search functionality enabling customers of all skill levels to invest in commodities with greater ease, insight and speed.

"Most investors understand that commodity trading is a very profitable way to boost your returns. However, they are underutilized or wrong utilized because many investors don't know how to research and select commodities and investment strategies in commodities." said Paul Livingstone, Asian FTG's Head of trading and Vice President of Investing. "So we've rebuilt the Asian FTG Commodity Investing experience from the top down to make buying and selling commodities as seamless, intuitive and straightforward as buying a stock."

The new Commodity Resource Center supports a full range of fixed income investing needs — for novice investors through expert traders — with new features, such as:

Strategy Analyzer - Run historical tests and analyze the performance of your automated trading strategies.

Market Analyzer - A turbo-charged quote sheet allowing you to monitor, sort and rank hundreds of instruments in real time.

- 100 plus indicator columns
- Rules based cell color coding and alerting
- Dynamic ranking, sorting and filtering

Trade Performance - Analyze the performance of your historically back-tested trading strategies and/or your live real time trades.

Additional Analytic Tools
- Time & Sales window
- Level II market data window
- Alerts window
- News & RSS window

"Asian FTG is demonstrating tremendous vision by delivering market-leading tools to make commodity trading more accessible. The Commodity Investment Resource Center is an innovative, content-rich, easy-to-navigate solution that enables Asian FTG customers to manage their portfolios."

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry's largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world's largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

Media contact: Jason Green

Asian FTG
http://www.asian-ftg.com
info@asian-ftg.com

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Promotes delivery of higher quality Oseberg and Ekofisk crude oils

Kowloon, Hong Kong -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/14/2014 -- Asian FTG a premium commodities broker and a professional information provider and publisher of benchmark price references, today announced that it is enhancing the methodology for its Dated Brent price assessment, as part of ongoing efforts to boost liquidity and ensure the long-term viability of one of the world's most important oil benchmarks.

Under its updated methodology, Asian FTG will introduce Quality Premiums for Oseberg and Ekofisk crude oil delivered in its North Sea Dated Brent and related assessment processes for cargoes loading. Quality Premiums are to be paid by buyer to seller for the nomination and delivery of Oseberg or Ekofisk into a physical transaction concluded during the Asian FTG Market-on-Close assessment process.

"The introduction of Quality Premiums offers an incentive for more deliveries of Oseberg and Ekofisk, and thus has the potential to further gird the supply of oil underpinning the complex and the Dated Brent price assessment," said Dave Clark, Asian FTG Global Energy Information Director.

"Increasingly, much market attention is being put to the issue of new streams being blended into established benchmark grades," said Jason Green, Asian FTG Global Markets Director. "As the trend of blending expands, as we believe it will, it becomes even more important that price assessment processes integrate the use of Quality Premiums and De-escalators to best account for slight, but not insignificant, variances in crude oil quality and best assure that assessments reflect true market value."

Today's announcement followed constructive dialogue with oil market participants during the formal comment period, preceded by more than 18 months of informal market consultation.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry's largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world's largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

Media contact: Jason Green
Asian FTG
www.asian-ftg.com
info@asian-ftg.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm