Tracker

Tracker monitors real time prices of a selected commerial node without tying up the browser or Excel. Every five minutes it updates the real-time price information automaticly. The Tracker can be used with only a ticker "tape" showing even when the screen saver is running.

2 Hour Real Time Chart

The 2 Hour RT chart plots a selected node's real time information. This chart is updated every five minutes. Allowing the operator to quickly compare the last price posted with the last posting. Tracker includes the DA price with the RT node information. enchanced Tracker scans all the nodes to get real-time price information not available on MISO's contour map or table.

Traces on Two hour RT Chart include the day ahead lmp price for convenience.

RT LMP

Real time Local Marginal Price

Light green diamond plot

RT MLC

Real time Marginal Loss Component

Green line

RT MCC

Real time Marginal Congestion Component

Dark green line

DA LMP

Day ahead Local Marginal Price

Light green line

Color matches RT diamond.

24 Hour Day Ahead Chart

A DA Day chart rides under the five minute RT lmp chart. This chart shows the day's DA pricing for your node in relation to the local and the system high and low pricing. The color scheme for the DA day chart uses red for high system, yellow for high local, green for selected node, blue and voilet for low local and system traces respectively.

Ticker Tape

The latest selected lmp node price is displayed with MISO high and low price information. Local high and low prices are also displayed. These extra points greatly help in predicting the direction of future RT node pricing. Pro-action instead of reaction!

Using Tracker

Actions menu items
• About Shows the version information for Tracker installed.
• Messages shows the messages from Tracker operation when checked.
• Settings shows the Node names in a dropdown edit box above the graph when checked .
• Hint: you can type the Node name in the edit box.
• uncheck Settings to hide the dropdown edit box
• Ticker shows prices for selected node, with the low and high price, on the screen when checked
• Update forces an update.
• Exit closes the program.

Tracker Installation

1. Make a directory named Tracker
2. Move the Tracker_vxxx.exe to the Tracker directory. Tracker will make a configuration file here and sub directory named DAdata. (Thats all the changes Tracker needs to make.
3. Right click with the mouse to bring a Windows menu select Create shortcut about 2/3's of the way down.
4. Drag the created shortcut to the Desktop or the Windows Start button to place in task menu.
5. click on shortcut to start Tracker.

Security Concerns

Tracker is a compiled executable. It doesn't need Java or VB runtimes. Scripts which may exploited or simply altered or corrupted to a not working state are not used with Tracker. This allows the Tracker to run without causing versioning issues with Java programs. Excel can use the csv files.

High Prices rooted out by Tracker

Ticker Tape

DA price window DAnalizer

Color Scheme

Or if your node is in consolidated node data set a standard model Tracker can get data from the contour map site

• Hourly Day-Ahead
• Five Minute Real-Time
• Last Hour Estimated

Past data charting

Loads the prior data for the day or the day before data. A fun thing to do is loading all the nodes to check the divergence of the MISO operating day prices.

• LMP
• MLC
• MCC