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Post From: Very Impressive!: New Continuous Futures Contract Feature

[2013-12-27 18:14:42]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
The Chart >> Perform Futures Contract Rollover command will remain. Only the join function within it will be removed. The reason is we do not want users to use it because it combines data from another futures contract month into a file name with a different contract month. Data for each contract month should be in its own file for consistency reasons.

And unless the user is using a Continuous Futures Contract symbol from the external Data service, we want a single method to create continuous contracts.

Definitely Replay will be supported with the new Continuous Futures Contract options. We need to think about how to do this. We will do our best to get this out as soon as possible.

For the time being, the way that you can accomplish replay is by using the Join Intraday Data function to combine multiple files together into a single file and replay that:
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/doc_JoinIntradayData.php
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level

Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy:
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation

For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, *change* to the Teton service:
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-12-27 18:16:14