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You add futures to FuturesLive through the Portfolios tab. You can either add a future to an existing portfolio or to a newly created portfolio. To create a new portfolio, just click on the '+' button on the top right corner of the Portfolios tab. This will bring up a screen where you can input the name of portfolio and save it. To add a future to any portfolio, just click on that portfolio and then click on the '+' button on the top right corner in the next screen. This will bring up the search screen where you can search for any future you want by name or symbol (Eg. 'Crude' or 'Oil' or 'CL' will bring up results that include the Crude Oil future). To add a search result, just click on that result cell and it will be added to the portfolio.

The front month is always shown in the portfolio page. Clicking on the chain image will give you the whole future chain for that specific future.

To see the future chain, just click on the chain image that is shown on the right side of the cell for the given front month, under each portfolio.

To add a specific future contract (Eg. specific contract month), go into that contract's detail screen by clicking on the Portfolios tab, then selecting the portfolio that contains the future you want to add. Then, click on the chain to bring up the whole future chain for that future. After this, select the future that you want to add to the Watchlist, and finally, to add it to the Watchlist, click on the top right star button. A pop up will show on the bottom to notify you that the future contract was added to the Watchlist.

Under the Settings tab, click 'General Options' and then turn off 'Show Watchlist Grouped'. This will make the watchlist to show ungrouped so that you can move any contract wherever you want. To move them around, go back to the 'Watchlist' screen, then click 'Edit' and then tap and hold to the right of the cell (where it shows three horizontal lines) and drag the cell wherever you want it to be. When you are done arranging, just click on 'Done' on the top right.

Expired futures always show the background in a light red color and always display 'Expired' instead of the expiration date. Front months are distinguished by the blue icon to the left of the symbol.

FuturesLive updates the chains for each future every 24 hrs. only when the app is running. While updating, it will show a notification at the bottom of the screen saying 'Updating Future Chain...' It only shows the notification on the Portfolios tab. During this update, its better to let FuturesLive finish the update before adding any new futures or changing a setting, but you should be able to go into the portfolios and see details about each future while its updating. If you haven't opened FuturesLive in a while or you just installed it, it might take some time to do the updates.

Here is a summary of what each of these settings do:

• Show Local Trade Time - When this setting is turned on, it will show you the last trade time in your local time (the current timezone you are in). If you turn it off, the last trade time will show in Eastern Time.
• Show Prices In Color - This setting allows you to have the last quote and percent change show in red when negative or green when positive. If you don't want this, then turn this setting off.
• Show Tick Indicator - Turning on this setting will show a tick up when the future is trending positive or down when is trending negative.
• Show Watchlist Grouped - This setting shows the Watchlist as a group, dividing the futures in categories (Energy, Grains, Softs, etc). When off, it allows for the Watchlist to be arranged however you like./li>
• Show Expired Futures - When this setting is on, it will display expired futures on the Watchlist. Turn it off to hide these expired futures. This setting does not delete the expired futures.
• Show Tips - This setting will show the tips at the top of the Watchlist screen. Turn it off to hide these tips.
• Number of Expired Futures - This setting allows you to select how many expired futures to show in the future chain screen. The default is set to 3. This setting will not delete the expired futures.