Traders' Roundtable

Is it possible to see the rates at which teh system "actually " rolled contracts i.e. teh Buy (sell) of teh previous month fill and teh sell (buy) rate of teh new month ? just so I can compare what Im doing to teh system ? Is it a print statement of some sort as these rates are not shown in any trade logs ?

Thanks for any help
C

You are correct that rollovers are not recorded in the trade log or accounted for as separate trades. Rather, when the value in the contract month field of your data file changes, Blox debits a roll expense if the instrument currently has a long or short position.

You can check in scripting for a rollover day and print out anything you like, such as a custom message detailing each leg of the roll trade. It may not be trivial to report the simultaneous price of the old month and the new month given a continuous contract input. You might need to set up two different continuous series that roll on different dates to have access to the prices of both deliveries.

Jake - thanks VM for your comments / Help
C