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Post From: Treasury futures - bad roll - ZNZ5 contract bad data at midnight Aug-30/31 (last night)

[2015-09-01 00:12:26]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
This is definitely correct. We get the same result that you do.

The transition from one futures contract to the next is always done at midnight in an Intraday chart. Refer to:
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/doc_ContinuousFuturesContractCharts.html#DisplayingRolloverDatesContractMonths

The back adjustments are calculated correctly and how they are done is explained at step 8 here:
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/doc_ContinuousFuturesContractCharts.html#UsingContinuousFuturesContractCharts

ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: Download is complete for all contract months in chart. Proceeding with data load. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: Checking for volume based rollover dates. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: Volume based rollover from ZNU5 to ZNZ5 occurs at 2015-08-31 | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: Performing continuous futures contract back adjustment calculations. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: ZNU5 Open price on 2015-08-31 is 127.5156. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: ZNZ5 Open price on 2015-08-31 is 126.75. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: ZNU5 price difference to ZNZ5 is -0.76560003. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29
ZNZ5 [CBV] [M] 10 Min #19: Back adjust amount for symbol ZNU5 is -0.76560003. | 2015-08-31 20:08:29

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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2015-09-01 00:20:40