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Post From: Switching charts from single to continuous contracts

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User99606 - Posts: 9
I often have multiple open charts for a futures symbol, some charts showing a single contract and other showing a continuous contract. I switch back and forth between the two because the contract changeover can sometimes (but not always) negatively affect the accuracy of the drawings and studies I use. Even though I have open fully updated continuous contract charts and fully populated .scid files on my hard drive, when I switch another existing chart from a non-continuous to continuous there is usually a long delay while Sierra Chart again downloads data from my provider that it already has stored. It appears that the newly downloaded data is used to overwrite the existing fully populated files with the same information. For instance once historical intraday data for a YMH13 contract is downloaded, it shouldn't have to be redownloaded because a chart is changed from YMM13 to a continuous contract of YMM13. Can the existing locally stored data that has already been downloaded be used to populate a chart when switching from a single to a continuous contract? Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-04-12 17:58:57