NT8 Strategy - Get Futures current contract

[Shansen]

NT Team

In an NT8 strategy, it is possible to get the instrumentName of the current futures contact to use as a parameter AddDataSeries?

For example, where the primary dataSeries is "^SP500", the associated futures contract is "ES". Is it possible to retrive the current contract "ES 12-16" to feed into

AddDataSeries("ES 12-16", Data.BarsPeriodType.Minute, BarsPeriod.Value);

Shannon

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Shannon,

There isn't an association between the SP500 index and the ES future.

No, there wouldn't be a way to do this. (You could make a set of if statement switches to match specific instruments and add a secondary instrument when that primary instrument is loaded)