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Post From: Price discrepency between 2 data suppliers for the price low of Natural Gas cash

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User767336 - Posts: 39
I've been a subscriber for quite some time ... guess I missed the memo regarding symbols using a # in their id not being supported any longer. Obviously I will have to go through all my charts and redo those that did have the # sign in the symbol. Your disclosure that I need to be using continuous futures contract charts for establishing weekly and monthly charts indicates I have been doing a lot of my weekly and monthly charts wrong. In the past I would open a new historical chart in daily form (commodities using the #.dly). Once that chart appeared, I would click on the label on the bottom bar, and duplicate the chart to the same chartbook. Then I simply opened the charts tab on the top task bar, clicked on bar periods, then selected the time duration ... either weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc.. The chart immediately converted to the time frame requested. Then I'd duplicate the chart again, and convert it to the next larger time frame. In all cases I would rename the chart on the bottom bar for id purposes. So this is the procedure I used on all previous versions of SC that I used, ie. version 1282, and never had a yellow bar window appear requesting "symbol needs rollover". Maybe it is this procedure that causes this ... the chart converts the bars to a yearly chart, even though the title bar at the bottom of the screen says monthly. This makes no sense to us. We do not see how this is even possible. Changing the symbol has no effect on the duration of the chart bars. This is not even technically possible. I have always been of the impression (apparently wrongly so) that a weekly or monthly chart were not the same as weekly or monthly continuation contract.