Learn Fair Value Tracker as a daily desk routine.
A complete Fair Value Tracker course that teaches the parity workflow in small desk decisions: source quality first, assumptions visible, basis as context, alerts as reminders, and adjacent tools as handoffs.
Desk routine preview
Desk question
Which asset and contract pair am I actually comparing?
Evidence cue
Asset and contract selectors
Risk check
Fair value is an estimate, not a target.
Tool handoff
Open Fair Value Tracker
Lesson path
Follow the same order as the desk.
- 1Fair Value first readA beginner-safe Fair Value Tracker lesson for checking the market lane, three price legs, data freshness, confidence, and basis before writing any parity note.12 min5 sources
- 2Fair Value bridgeA beginner-safe Fair Value Tracker lesson for converting global futures quotes into local units: COMEX quote, FX, troy ounce to grams, and local market quote unit before landed-cost assumptions.12 min5 sources
- 3Fair Value freshnessA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for using source freshness as the first quality gate before reading basis, confidence, or signal-state language.12 min5 sources
- 4Estimated local market modeA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for understanding estimated local market as fallback math, not a live local quote or scanner opportunity.12 min5 sources
- 5Fair Value basisA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for reading basis as the gap between observed local price and model value, separating global basis, import basis, gross basis, net basis, and percent scale.12 min5 sources
- 6Fair Value costsA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for separating normalized COMEX, fair global, fair import, cost profile, gross basis, and net basis without pretending the assumptions are fixed truth.13 min5 sources
- 7Contract pair and rollA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for choosing the contract selector before reading basis, history, scanner rows, or roll-sensitive gaps.12 min5 sources
- 8Print versus patternA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for separating a single stretched basis print from a reviewable historical pattern without treating history as a prediction.13 min5 sources
- 9Scanner triageA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for reading scanner rows as a triage queue into Overview, History, or Alerts instead of an execution list.12 min5 sources
- 10Daily desk noteA practical Fair Value Tracker lesson for writing a two-sided desk note from Overview, Alerts, Pivot, Calendar, COT, and Backtest context without turning fair value into an entry trigger.13 min6 sources