CL (oil)

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CL (oil)

Postby winsome » 18 Mar 2011

I use IB for data. i noticed that the CL futures symbols don't line up with what they should do . clk1 is may but on m charts i need use april for the right data. is this IB or m charts.?

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby NiC72 » 18 Mar 2011

IB has CLJ1, for April. You may check out again.

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby Dave Masalov » 18 Mar 2011

Dear winsome,

If you are talking about IB CL contracts Description field showing incorrect month, please make sure to install the latest IB API update: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8221&p=38707&hilit=ib+update#p38707

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby winsome » 19 Mar 2011

thank you for your replys. can now see that its IB and not m charts.
have lastest build. thank you.

http://screencast.com/t/4MW5wpbxzCr

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby Dave Masalov » 21 Mar 2011

You are welcome.

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby JackR » 21 Mar 2011

You can read this to help understand the issue.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/tr ... Label.html

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby winsome » 21 Mar 2011

thank you jackr. now i know why i was confussed,

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Re: CL (oil)

Postby Stan Bokov » 12 Apr 2011

This issue has been fixed in MultiCharts 7.


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