Warning - TradeStation Users

[daedalus 10]

This may or may not affect you but I thought I would pass this along because i've been trying to hunt down a reason for this all morning.

 

I'm trading the Forex Futures contracts via the CME (EC/6E, etc).

 

Apparently TS in their infinite wisdom rolled over to the H contract a week early so anyone using continuous contracts on thier charts (most of us do) your data is incorrect. I wouldn't have caught it if I wasn't using another broker to clear with.

 

But the tech support is trying to tell me that this is normal and I should trade off the H contract prices - which is dumb because everyone else is still trading the Z contract.

 

Apparently their "data integrity group" says this is all normal and by the book but i've never had this issue before in the 3 years with them as a client using continuous contracts.

 

I mean, the H contract has no where near the volume as the Z and yet they want to base the movement off of the H contract instead of something with 18x's the volume? WTF TS?

 

 

I just thought this might affect some of you guys and I wanted you to be aware.

[trader273 10]

Wouldnt just using the regular symbol, not the continuous, take care of this problem. If you track the current and next contract then you can chose when to roll, not dependent on TS. Don't think Id trust TS with anything really.

[daedalus 10]

No i get that, and thats what I ended up having to do. I'm just saying this has never been an issue prior to today and its just kind of annoying to have to go through and change the symbol on 48 charts.

[statsign 10]

You can use the front contract you want and have it continuous. @ES09