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Displaying Expired Contracts

As a futures contract expires, the daily data for the life of the contract is archived. To display a daily or weekly chart on an expired contract, type in its symbol. For example, on most data feeds, the symbol for the March, 1993 S&P contract is SPH3.

When expired contracts are requested, the program displays them in their correct position with respect to the current date. It may be necessary to shift the chart back in time to view the data. This can be done either with the re-scale menu or the BEFORE and AFTER commands. See Scaling with the BEFORE Command, and Scaling with the AFTER Command.