Continuous contract in multicharts issue

October 25th, 2017, 01:04 PM

Hi all I am trying to make a continuous S&P future contract for a a daily chart in multicharts. It seems pretty straight forward in terms of making a custom instrument and and then using that instrument to make a daily chart. However, I cant seem to get it to load data more than a few months old. Im not sure what I am missing. Has anyone else had this issue?

ABCTG · October 25th, 2017, 02:22 PM

uspilotzzz,

can you chart the individual contracts and see the data? If not, it could simply be due to your data provider limiting the amount of data you can load. This might be related to your case:

Frustrating CQG Multicharts Combo

I just recently set up CQG and Multicharts. It's been really disappointing since then. I've been trying to obtain a continuous contract for the past 3 day, following online tutorials to set up a custom symbol for EP (mini S&P). However, when …

Regards,

ABCTG

October 30th, 2017, 08:04 PM

That was it, I don't get the expired contracts from CQG like I thought I did, thanks.

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October 14th, 2019, 05:07 AM

I tried to do this also, I was told at the time, by AMP Clearing that MultiCharts was unable to support the continuous contract.

October 14th, 2019, 01:08 PM

uspilotzzz

That was it, I don't get the expired contracts from CQG like I thought I did, thanks.

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With IQFEED you won't have this problem....but datas are expensive.

Continuous contract in multicharts issue

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