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Post From: 2nd Instance with DTC - No Continuous Futures Contract Symbols

[2017-09-26 01:45:37]
Merlin - Posts: 83
All I can tell you is that I did receive the errors reported in post #1.

Thinking it through as a programmer, I hypothesized that perhaps the continuous contract logic, when run within a new dtc sub-instance, was not properly or successfully requesting historical intraday for the needed prior contracts.
I tested my hypothesis by opening separate charts for each of the relevant prior contracts, because I knew that would cause the necessary data to be downloaded from the primary instance to the sub-instance.
And it worked - once the sub-instance had the necessary data, the continuous contract logic worked normally and the previous error messages didn't appear.

So for me, the problem is resolved - I have what I need, and I know how to work around the issue should it ever happen in the future.
But I do think there must be some little bug in the way the continuous contract logic asks for previous-contract historical intraday data - a bug that perhaps only affects dtc sub-instances.

Kind regards,
Merlin