For those of you following along in TWS, this video aims show you how to add common contracts to the display.<\/p>\n
We will explain contract codes and months to help you quickly build them. We\u2019ll demonstrate how to add one or a strip of futures contracts to your display. For spread traders and for those wanting to roll a contract from one expiration to the next, we\u2019ll show you how to create a spread between two contracts.<\/p>\n
In TWS, futures symbols are specific to the exchange-listed contract, month and year of the product you are looking at. Yet there are several ways to arrive at displaying the information.<\/p>\n
If you know the symbol of the contract you want to add to the display, type it into a row on your monitor.<\/p>\n
In this case I\u2019ll use GC for gold.<\/p>\n
To quickly add a specific expiration for a contract into TWS, you will need the product code and the symbol used to denote the month along with the final digit of the year in which the contract expires.<\/p>\n
For example, if I specifically wanted to display the December 2021 contract, we know that GC is the TWS symbol for gold and knowing that Z represents December we\u2019d enter GCZ1<\/strong>, where 1 represents 2021. Should you want the December 2022 contract, you\u2019d enter GCZ2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a list of the futures month codes:<\/p>\n January\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F<\/strong><\/p>\n February\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 G<\/strong><\/p>\n March\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 H<\/strong><\/p>\n April\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 J<\/strong><\/p>\n May\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 K<\/strong><\/p>\n June\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 M<\/strong><\/p>\n July\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 N<\/strong><\/p>\n August\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Q<\/strong><\/p>\n September\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U<\/strong><\/p>\n October\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 V<\/strong><\/p>\n November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 X<\/strong><\/p>\n December\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Z<\/strong><\/p>\n To display multiple contract months<\/strong> at the same time, start with the TWS symbol, locate the exchange and select Futures.<\/p>\n You can add all of your required futures contracts to a monitor page this way.<\/p>\n To learn more about each contract, or to find out its trading hours and so on:<\/p>\n To display Futures related data in your monitor:<\/p>\n If you wish to add a spread between two contracts<\/strong>, you can use the convention of subtracting one contract from another.<\/p>\n There is a lot of information in this video to help you locate futures contract details and symbols and how to add them to your Monitor page.<\/p>\n To conclude this futures module –<\/p>\n Watch and learn how to put Futures contracts into practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221426,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"contributors-categories":[13576],"traders-academy":[13125,13128,13132],"class_list":{"0":"post-175910","1":"trading-lessons","2":"type-trading-lessons","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"contributors-categories-interactive-brokers","7":"traders-academy-beginner-trading","8":"traders-academy-level","9":"traders-academy-trading-lesson"},"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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