Creating a continous contract of the TF with stored data from ZenFire

[Mexie]

Hi,

Is there a way I can create a continuous contract of the TF by exporting past data that I have collected from ZenFire and adding new periods as I go along?

Say I have data for the TF 12-08 and I want to add TF 03-09 and keep adding as I collect data.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_RJ]

Hello,

Thank you for your note.

Yes, you can do this by merging the past contract months into the current front month.
Merge instructions here: http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...eV6/Merge.html

[kantkant2]

wrong link

this link doesn't work....can you post a new one?? thanks...

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello kantkant2,

Thanks for your post.

The default merge settings of NinjaTrader (MergeBackAdjusted) will do this.
You can find this setting under Tools> Options> Data
Below I have provided a link to the Understanding merge policies section of our help guide.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?historical_data.htm

[kantkant2]

sorry...
the initial question was :

Is there a way I can create a continuous contract of the TF by exporting past data that I have collected from ZenFire and adding new periods as I go along??

Thanks...

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello kantkant2,

Thanks for your reply.

What I would recommend is accessing the continuous contract of the TF with Zen-Fire.
You can access the continuous contract by using the following TF ##-##
You then could export the data from the TF ##-##
Below I have provided a link to the Exporting section of our help guide.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?exporting.htm

[kantkant2]

OK, Probably I'm not clear....
I know how to export data and how to create a new ##-## contract, buot I don't know how to create a continuous ##-## contract starting from multiple past contract.... I have to manage them from txt data?? there is a built-in function in ninjatrader?
thanks for all, ninja support is great!!

[NinjaTrader_Brandon]

Hello kantkant2,

Thanks for your reply.

There is not a way with NinjaTrader 7 to take standard contracts data and merge them together and export in that format to make a continuous contract. You would need to use the actual continuous contract an export it's data.
This is a very old forum topic in regards to NinjaTrader 6.5
Here you can see the previous link to 6.5

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/HelpGuideV6/helpguide.html?Merge