Roll Over Grains

[jamesaq]

That rollover trick in the Instrument Manager where you highlight an instrument in your list and click the right arrow and then click the left arrow to update/roll the month is not working today (Monday April 26, 2010) on the grains.

For traders the grains rolled over last week from 5 (May) to 7 (July).

The right-left arrow trick still sets the month to 5 (May). (See pic.)

I'm sure there is a reason for this, but I just don't know what it is.

Maybe it waits to expiration and will work next week, but the grains really should be rolled over to July now since the volume is higher (see pic), and not wait .

It would be good for the trick to work, otherwise we have to locate the instrument in the master list and set the month to add it to our list the long way which is cumbersome as far as rollover interfaces are concerned.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hi jamesaq,

Thank you for your post.

From the looks of it, the contracts will roll over on 4/30/2010. I will forward your suggestion to change this on to my development team, but with that said, you can change this within the Instrument Manager by taking the following steps:



From the Control Center, click Tools > Instrument Manager.
In the instrument manager, select an instrument from the list on the right side of the menu, then click the Change button to load the Instrument Editor.
In the editor, please navigate to the Misc tab and scroll down to the 'Contract Months (experies and rollover dates' section, select this property, then click the '...' button to load a Contract Months window.
In the Contract Months window, select the 07-10 item from the list on the left.
On the right side of the window, set the Rollover Date property to your selected date then click OK.