Traders – for Thursday, December 12, 2013 you will need to roll over your CME Equity Index Futures contracts to the new quarterly contract month (March, 2014 aka 03-14 in NinjaTrader).
Here’s how to do it:
1. Go to NinjaTrader’s Control Center > Tools > Instrument Manager…
2. For example, under name, type in “ES” for E-mini S&P 500 and click Search
3. For Expiry at the bottom, select 03-14
4. Click the left arrow (◄) then click OK at the bottom
5. Open a chart or go to one that you have open and switch it to the new contract month (ES 03-14).
Then you should be all set.
Remember “3, 6, 9, 12” as the months to switch contracts.
See the CME official page for more information.
Official NinjaTrader instructions
