Creative Energy Uses for XMIM & Creative Financial Uses for XMIM
These practical guides offers useful examples for demonstrating how XMIM, LIM’s patented near-English query tool, can help you in modeling and evaluating trading opportunities. The detailed studies within are designed to acquaint you with the software’s capabilities and to highlight interesting and useful functionality. Each one demonstrates a problem, illustrates the query language and displays the results as would appear in the application.

Data Vendor Comparison (NYMEX)
This study focuses on the pit session for three futures contracts that trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) for the time period of January 1, 1990 through December 14, 2006.

Effectively Managing Energy Data
Sandy Fielden of Logical Information Machines, Inc explains why central databases are the key to success for the modern energy trader

Sarbanes Oxley Compliance for U.S. Utility Companies
The 2002 Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Legislation in the United States created new accounting standards for stock exchange listed companies. The law requires companies to disclose in their financial reports any material weaknesses in their financial reporting systems. CEO’s and CFO’s must certify that the reports are accurate.

Weathering the Impact of Stormy Price Hikes
At the start of the 2006 hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, Zachary Simecek takes a look at the impact on the energy markets