How to determine when contract has rolled over

[jdfagan]

I'm using following chart:
* Intraday chart (e.g., Renko)
* Instrument of EMD 12-10 with default session template (which is CME US Futures RTH I believe)
* Merge policy is set for MergeBackAdjusted

I'm trying to determine the boolean logic to detect when we've rolled over to new contract within a continuous contract intraday chart that auto-merges many contracts per the merge policy setting. I want to detect this historically via the indicator if possible so I can see the precise first bar in my chart for a newly rolled over contract (e.g., in March, June, Sept, Dec for index type futures).

I've tried a couple of ideas - like Bars.TotalTicks or Bars.TickCount for the variable to check against but still no luck, for example:

if (Bars.TotalTicks > 1)   //<---- Not sure of if expression here to detect rolled over contract
    //Found first bar of new contract that we've rolled over/merged into on this chart
    Print(String.Format("Rolled Over Contract Detected with {0} on TickCount {1}, Bar {2},  [{3}]", 
            Instrument.FullName, Bars.TickCount, CurrentBar, Time[0]));

Maybe the problem I have is using RTH session template instead of ETH. If anyone has other ideas on how to accomplish rollover detection in the past within a continuous contract which uses merging, I'd be grateful in hearing your solution

JD

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

JD, unfortunately you could not programmatically access the rollover dates defined. You can perhaps add the dates yourself to the script for example as StringSeries and then check off against this.