Charting futures spreads

Markus123

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Charting futures spreads

11-06-2018, 03:40 AM

Can I chart the spread between two expiry months of futures contracts on one chart?
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11-06-2018, 04:00 AM

Hello Markus123,

Thank you for your post. Spread trading is unsupported within NinjaTrader. Likewise, the application does not include a method which would allow spread charting by default. However this is something which can be accomplished using the 'Spread' indicator posted on the App sharing section of the NinjaTrader Ecosystem.

Spread - NinjaTrader Ecosystem

https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/user-app-share-download/spread-2/

Plots the Spread of two instruments The first instrument is the primary chart data series. The secondary instrument is specified by the parameter "Symbol2". The Parameters "Qty1" and "Qty2" are multipliers which are applied to each instrument's price before adding the two; default values are "Qty1=1" and "Qty2=&dash;1" which will simply plot the difference between […]

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