CL chart for Jan13

[Pekka]

I cannot pull up Crude oil charts with expiration January 2013. I then tried to pull up ES march 2013 futures and tthat did not work either. Is the 2013 charts not added to the system or what is the problem?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Pekka,

The CL 01-13 expiry is setup by default to rollover on 11/21/2012. Please go to Control Center-->Tools-->Instrument Manager. Highlight the CL in the 'Available master instruments' section and click Edit.

Subsequently select the Misc-tab and scroll to the bottom. Select the 'Contract months' row and click the '...' button that appears.

Select the 01-13 expiry month and you will see the rollover date listed. Historical data before this date is loaded from the 12-12 expiry and so on.

This means that if you currently create a CL 01-13 chart, it will receive real-time data from the 01-13 expiry, but historical data is loaded from the 12-12 expiry. Because there is a difference in price between these two expiries you see the large candle. If you let the chart run for a while and reload historical data in the chart, you will see that data changes as well.

You can change the rollover date to 11/15/2012. Please remove and re-add the CL 01-13 from your instrument list after you made the change. Instructions can be found at the link below.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/instrument_lists.htm

The same applies for the ES 03-12. The chart will load all historical data from the 12-12 expiry and combines it with real-time data from the 03-12 expiry.