Changing merge policy from Chart

[GlennL]

Is there anyway to change the merge policy for a chart without having to change the Global settings or the specific Instrument settings?
Sometimes the contract you want to look at may not be the current one and it is a laborious process to change Global or Instrument settings one way and then back again.

[NinjaTrader_RileyS]

Hello GlennL,

Thank you for your post.

If a newer contract date, then yes this would be possible, but is also a process to do:

Please navigate to the Control Center -> Tools > Instrument Manager > Search for the instrument that you would like to change > double click on the searched Instrument -> In the instrument editor window, go the Misc-tab > Scroll to the bottom and select 'Contract Months' and click the '...' -> Select the next contract and set it to today's date. This will update the current contact's historical data.

Next, you will have to reload the historical data on your chart by right clicking in the background of yoru chart and selecting 'Reload All Historical Data'

[GlennL]

Okay, thanks, so the answer is "No, there is no way to change the merge policy from the chart screen".

[NinjaTrader_RileyS]

Hello,

Yes, that's correct. There's no way to change that setting from the chart itself.