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

[2013-12-30 17:05:36]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
A quick explanation is that back adjusting means that prior contract months in a Continuous Futures Contract chart are adjusted by the rollover gap which occurs from one contract month to the next.

For example, if there is a price difference of -6.5 when rolling over from December to March ES futures, then the December futures prices are decreased by 6.5 in the chart.

Here's an example of this:
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: Performing continuous futures contract back adjustment calculations. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: ESU13 Open price on 2013-09-12 is 1689.75. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: ESZ13 Open price on 2013-09-12 is 1683.25. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: ESU13 price difference to ESZ13 is -6.5. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: ESZ13 Open price on 2013-12-12 is 1780.75. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: ESH14 Open price on 2013-12-12 is 1774.25. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: ESZ13 price difference to ESH14 is -6.5. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: Back adjust amount for symbol ESU13 is -13. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05
ESH14 [CB] 30 min #1: Back adjust amount for symbol ESZ13 is -6.5. | 2013-12-30 12:05:05

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