CAC 40 front month?

[tradeworks]

As far as I can tell the symbol for the front month CAC 40 futures should be "MT H3-MA" but this shows a very sparse chart. If I bring up a chart for the previous contract, "MT Z2002-MA" it looks OK. Am I using the right symbols here?

Dave

[EdKoF]

CAC-40 future is traded per month, not per quarter. Hence the current active future is MT F3-MA. Only people trading the March future (MT H3-MA) are probably spread traders who trade CAC versus DAX or something like that. That's why the volume is so low.


One other thing is: I seem to have lost daily volume data on this one since 12-31-2002. Intraday volume is still present. Same for the other futures, including the MT H3-MA.

eSignal, can you take a look please?

[ACM]

Re: Reply to post 'CAC 40 front month?'

Dave
I think the CAC also trades on monthly contracts besides the quarterlies.
You may want to check the following link for more information
http://www.matif.fr/ctr_/ctr_cac.htm
Alex

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[tradeworks]

Thanks for the info Ed, Alex, that is correct. I was misled by the outdated symbol settings in TradeStation, I think I have them set up correctly now.

And a Happy New Year to all!

Dave