Re: [amibroker] PlotForeign - Futures Contracts - Horizontal Lines - No Data?

["Steve Dugas" <sjdugas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know anything about futures, or how AB stores their data, but you 
need the contract data in AB to be null after the expiration date. Try 
something like this:

ContractData = IIF( DateNum() > ExpirationDate, NULL, ContractData );
Plot( ContractData....

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sslack88" <jzzpiano88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: [amibroker] PlotForeign - Futures Contracts - Horizontal Lines - No 
Data?


>I want to plot the individual futures contract data overlaid onto the
> cash index chart.  That way I can see how the futures contracts are
> tracking the index.
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> However, when I do this, after the expiration of a particular contract
> Amibroker takes the last value and then plots a horizontal line across
> the chart.  For example, if the last date of the contract was 1/02/05
> and the value was 139.5, Amibroker would plot a horizontal line at
> 139.5 starting at 1/02/05 to the present date.
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> Is there anyway to fix this so after the expiration date of the
> contract nothing is plotted?
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