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Date/Time: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:24:57 +0000
Post From: Adjusting / moving drawings after futures rollover
| [2023-10-24 01:46:47] |
| EverEdge - Posts: 15 |
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Hello, I'm finding a couple of past threads on related issues but nothing that answers my question. I track multiple futures markets and the charts (whether they are time-based, non-linear, TPO, VP, etc.) are heavily marked with drawings (e.g. extended rectangles, horizontal lines). At rollover time, I perform volume-based continuous back-adjusted rollover. Of course, the data moves by the amount of the rollover premium, but the drawings do not. Having to manually redraw or move numerous drawings going back 2 years once a quarter for a number of markets (and more frequently for products like crude) is extremely labor-intensive. I have found the following instructions under "adjusting chart drawings to match futures contract rollover difference" https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/ChangingFuturesContract.html#AdjustingDrawingsMatchRollover. But I cannot get it work consistently, and if the feature is not reliable, the only option is to do it by hand so you're not trading off inaccurate data. Specifically, the issues I'm encountering are as follows. Not all on one chart, but this is a list of all issues I've seen over time across all charts: 1. Some drawings don't show up on the list. The list of drawings in the "tools -> manage charts drawings window' is smaller than the actual drawings visible on the chart. I played with the data limiting to load more days, but some drawings are not always picked up on some charts. 2. I have to manually select all drawings, and there are a 3-digit number of them going back as much as 2 years per chart. Please consider this a feature request (select all), unless I'm missing something. 3. Sometimes, some of the selected drawings do not move with the adjustment. 4. Sometimes, all the drawings do move, but the locations are not accurate despite the roll premium being entered correctly. This is especially true if it's a negative number. These issues are intermittent, and it is not rollover time, so I cannot easily reproduce them. But I figured I'd start this thread because if I can develop confidence in the reliability and accuracy of this feature before the next rollover, it'd save a ton of time thereafter. Am I missing something or doing something wrong as per above, or else what is your best guess as to what could be intermittently causing some of these issues so I can try to troubleshoot them myself? Thanks! |