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[User Discussion] - Denali Feed (Gold Contract Month)
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| [2020-07-27 14:27:08] |
| jomanos - Posts: 27 |
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In my Denali feed, under Chart Settings > Symbol > Futures - Comex, the current contract month is August (GCQ20). The next contract month is December (GCZ20). Is there a technical reason why the October contract month is missing from the pull-down list? I can manually type in GCV20 on my chart and get the contract data for October. On the CME page for the Gold contract they also list the September contract, in addition to the October contract. Which isn't helpful. |
| [2020-07-27 16:45:58] |
| User750920 - Posts: 274 |
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I am not support (obviously) but I think the reason is that December would become the front month with the most contract volume after August rollover.
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| [2020-07-27 16:53:51] |
| jomanos - Posts: 27 |
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Thanks. There are some traders using the October contract month, while others said to skip to the December contract month. So, wasn't sure which forward month I should be charting/trading. |
| [2020-07-27 19:34:42] |
| User90125 - Posts: 715 |
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Pretty much NO ONE really trades the GCV (October) contract. Even the institutional traders skip directly to GCZ (December) instead at rollover. And knowing this, many retail brokers won't even support the October month on their platform. Best thing you can do to make sure you automatically skip October is to edit the Symbol Settings for Comex Gold by removing V from the contract months field. And make sure Use Custom Symbol Settings Values is also enabled. |
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