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Post From: Price discrepency between 2 data suppliers for the price low of Natural Gas cash
| [2016-12-27 00:38:27] |
| User767336 - Posts: 39 |
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Ok, pardon my ignorance, but I don't know what a CFD symbol is ... and I don't use the NGAS symbol on FXCM ... I've been using NG#.dly I'm well aware the natural gas futures start with NG, plus a letter corresponding to a specific contract month, followed by the the last 2 digits of the contract year. BUT ... the long term daily, weekly and monthly charts are based on cash ... and that symbol on Barchart.com is NGY00. Anyhow, a light just turned on in my brain ... I just now tried that Barchart.com symbol on the SC FXCM data ... entered it as NGY000.dly ... and it worked!! I now have the charts showing the $1.49 low ... which is great. However I'm still confused just exactly what it is that NG#.dly is charting ... and why the difference in prices. OH well. Regarding the yellow bar that pops up ... they read "Symbol needs Rollover. Click to Rollover." When I do that after the chart is converted from daily to monthly bars, and click on the yellow bar, a small window titled "Futures Window Rollover" shows up, with another heading below that which says "Historical daily chart" ... and below that it states the "current symbol, NGY00" and "new symbol NGF00". When I click OK ... the chart converts the bars to a yearly chart, even though the title bar at the bottom of the screen says monthly. And then it just wants to put up another yellow bar that needs a another rollover, as before. Only now the symbols progress through the month contract letters, one at a time ... Now NGF00 is the current symbol and new one is NGG00 ... and it still becomes a yearly chart. It will just keep going if I click ok on the yellow bar each time. Interestingly, once that yearly chart is up on screen, I can't convert the bars back to a monthly or weekly chart. So ... there you have it. Probably better off to ignore the rollover, and just leave it be. I removed those yearly charts that came up, and never saved anything either when I closed SC down. Any further help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thx, Jim |