Features

17 articles

Curve Builder

About. Apply custom formulas to create forward curves. Forward curves are automatically updated with current market data for marking, settling, valuations and exposures while maintaining an audit his…

Updated by Ken Maranian

Account Settings

Overview. Learn how to setup and edit your organization's account settings. Account Settings - Includes several types of settings can be tailored to your organization's needs by users with the Organi…

Updated by Ken Maranian

Fee Maintenance

About. Maintain custom fee types and define fee schedules to automatically apply fees to trades. Access. Access to fee maintenance is restricted to users with specific permissions. If granted the Fee…

Updated by Kyle McRoberts

Trade Lifecycle Attachments

Overview. Learn how to manage your trade documents. Upload and manage documents for Trades, Sublegs, or Tickets. This feature accommodates all aspects of of a Trade from inception to delivery, from f…

Updated by Ken Maranian

Workflows

Molecule's Workflows feature helps you map & model your company's trade lifecycle in Molecule. Using Workflows. On the Trades screen, you can see a colored dot that shows which status a trade is in.…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Exposures

Molecule's Exposures feature offers a way to decompose positions into their implicit components. Exposures is available as part of Molecule's Enterprise package. Primary Functionality. Generally, Mol…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Downloading Raw Data

Sometimes, you'd rather not use the Valuations Screen or custom reports -- and just download CSV data straight from Molecule. To do this: Go to Reports > Extracts. Choose the reporting date on the to…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Pricing Formulas

Molecule's trade valuation supports the computation of prices (for trade prices, marks, underlying values, and more) using a formula parser. This article describes the syntax it expects. The Basics.…

Updated by Kyle McRoberts

Customer Test Environments

Molecule offers access to a "Customer Test" environment, as an add-on. It is included as part of Enterprise plans. Purpose & Schedule. Our Customer Test environments are designed to be used to test c…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Trade Locking

Trade Locking is an important compliance feature in Molecule. Definitions. When a trade is locked, it cannot be: edited from the Trade Edit screen. edited as part of a batch from the Trades screen. e…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Calendars

Molecule supports a number of business day (and other holiday) calendars, in-app and via our API. Under the hood, we use the open-source Ruby holidays gem, so any calendar in that list is available i…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Trade IDs

Molecule currently offers two different trade IDs: M.ID (sometimes called trade_id , id , or m_id ): this is a guaranteed-unique ID for a trade. Is sequential, but will have variable-length gaps betw…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Ticks

Molecule supports intraday pricing. In other words, the system can store multiple prices of the same mark level, posted throughout the day. In Molecule terms, these are called Ticks. You don't have t…

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Cascading

Cascading (also called stepwise in Molecule terms) is a granular and flexible way to see a trade's volume settle out during the delivery month. However, it produces a lot more data than the alternati…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Decay

Decay is one of two features in Molecule that work to accurately show a position that reduces during the delivery month (the other is Cascading ). Decay essentially takes a monthly product and comput…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

Permissions

Below are the permissions used in Molecule. They apply on screen and via the API. Read-Only Reports-Only API-Only Front-Office Mid-Office Back-Office Admin Actualization - Gives the user access to th…

Updated by Sameer Soleja

P&Sing

P&Sing , also known as PNS-ing or trade compression , is a process that FCMs run nightly. Its objectives are to, among other things: Reduce the number of line items that must be valued daily. Provide…

Updated by Sameer Soleja