Continous Futures Contracts with Back-Adjustment
Currently the contract roll-over for US indices contracts from Sep-23 to Dec-23 takes place. The price difference between both expiration months is quite high as shown in the following table:

The already available continuous contracts in ATAS (with prefix #) link these contracts after the first day of higher volume in the new contract, i.e. after closing of 11/09/2023. This un-adjusted chaining of contracts leads to a big price gap which corrupts any charts of the #-contracts,I.e. any (Volume-) or Pivot-Level Analysis in #-contract is currently totally misleading in my opinion.
(left: Z3 contract, right: Cont. contract)

Proposal: Introduction of a second version of continuous contracts (e.g. with prefix +) with difference-adjusted historical prices for the old contracts as it is available in other charting platforms (SierraCharts, MotiveWave, NinjaTrader).
The best possibility would be -in my opinion- to use the price difference of the daily mid-prices of the last active day of the old contract. In the table above this would be for ES:
((4543,50+4508,75,25)/2) - (4493,50+4459,25)/2 = 49,75 (rounded to the nearest tick if necessary).
This means all historical data until EoD 11/09/2023 should be increased by 49,75 points in order to adjust the price gap to the December contract. This process would be necessary for each roll-over historically and in the future. I assume it should be easier to process this on the data servers of ATAS, this would avoid any programming work in the client software.
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Oliver Sparing
Sep 26, 2023
Absolutely essential feature that is unfortunately still missing in ATAS! Thanks for the thread Jörg!
Luis Prieto
Sep 19, 2023
Other platforms allow you to decide how you want the contract change to be executed.
Anonymous User
Sep 27, 2023
Absolutely missing feature. That would make my life much easier. Wish to have that!
Rene Nollau
Sep 26, 2023
that would be great!
Matthias Kempf
Sep 26, 2023
Urgent issue. Needs to be adressed as quickly as possible.
Anonymous User
Sep 26, 2023
It would be great to implement this feature as soon as possible to ATAS in order to stay competitive against other charting software products. Thank you!
Bruno Kliver
Sep 27, 2023
Extrem wichtig bei der Analyse.
Gabriel
Sep 27, 2023
Essiantial if you trade Futures during/after Contract change.
Anonymous User
Sep 27, 2023
Needs to be added to the aganda asap please
Anonymous User
Sep 27, 2023
Great idea, please implement this Feature as soon as possible!