Contract rolls

[q0paz]

ok.. how are you meant to do it ?
I am now in the process of rolling the es.
first timeframe, roll to sep unadjusted. channels are displaced months back into the past, even though on the expiring contract they were right over current price action. scroll back, find the channels (need to keep the gradients) and drag them all forward. reset. everything looks good.
next time frame roll to sep unadjusted. channels totally gone. Object Viewer. Nope not there.
What happened to them ?
How are you meant to do this ?
The analyses are all unnamed.
I just have a single chart for each time frame with all the stuff drawn on.

When i look in the folder for layouts, there are a large number of "unnamed". Is there a way to inspect these (in notepad ??) without loading them onto a chart ? Or create a new chart and apply them to see if my vanished channels are in one of them ?

How should it work ?

Most european contracts it doesn't work at all

you get no history from the expired contract, just dots where there was no volume. US contracts work better.

Generally very unsatisfactory. Comments welcome.

 

[Donovan2580]

ok.. how are you meant to do it ?
I am now in the process of rolling the es.
first timeframe, roll to sep unadjusted. channels are displaced months back into the past, even though on the expiring contract they were right over current price action. scroll back, find the channels (need to keep the gradients) and drag them all forward. reset. everything looks good.
next time frame roll to sep unadjusted. channels totally gone. Object Viewer. Nope not there.
What happened to them ?
How are you meant to do this ?
The analyses are all unnamed.
I just have a single chart for each time frame with all the stuff drawn on.

When i look in the folder for layouts, there are a large number of "unnamed". Is there a way to inspect these (in notepad ??) without loading them onto a chart ? Or create a new chart and apply them to see if my vanished channels are in one of them ?

How should it work ?

Most european contracts it doesn't work at all

you get no history from the expired contract, just dots where there was no volume. US contracts work better.

Generally very unsatisfactory. Comments welcome.

If you roll unadjusted there will be a big gap left. That is the way I roll over, but I know a lot of people do it differently.

There is not a "Correct" way to roll over, lots of different personal preferences. If you don't want that gap and you want everything to fall in line, I would suggest trying out the different kinds of adjusted methods.

As far as the missing drawings; The analysis file that contains those drawings is tied to the symbol. So all of your drawings were (And probably still are) on ESM5.

You could create a continuous contract and you wouldn't have to mess with changing the symbol again. It would just roll over automatically on the date that you have chosen.

Also - You can always go back to a saved workspace and kind of start over if you don't like what happened after the roll over. Most likely Auto-Save is turned on and you can do a "File > Restore" and point it to that directory.

 

[otcscan]

Many months back roll-over was working, except for few EUREX contracts, that were not included in continuous futures list, One could've complained about automation, gaps and consistency of lines/drawings, but at the end of the day it was possible to make everything manually. Since a certain version - I can't tell you which one - it has been broken massively. Please refer to my posts:

Error Rolling to Next Chart

Today is the term for CME currency futures roll-over and almost all of my charts in FX page are blank (except for Canadian $). The page is basically useless: Error messages appear on any attempt to change parameters or even scroll on any chart. No auto roll-over despite that all the parameters...

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Blank charts for index futures

Some weeks ago I posted No Charts for EUREX Bonds Futures. https://support.motivewave.com/forum/index.php?threads/no-charts-for-eurex-bonds-futures.2623/ Today is the roll-over day for many index futures and I found blank charts for most of these contracts on EUREX, CME and CBOT with similar...

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No Charts for EUREX Bonds Futures

EUREX Bonds Futures are tend to expire today. Roll Method (Continuous Contracts) is set for 5 Business Days Before Expire Date, but no automatic rollover was made. This time I made manual rollover for DB, DL, DG, FBTP, FBTS, FGBX, FOAT but no charts for these contracts are displayed with error...

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If you are experiencing anything similar I suggest that you make screenshots and email them to support. They must fix it. Good luck