Futures Delivery Months
The Futures Delivery Month is the month in which the futures contract expires. Futures symbols are constructed using the root for the future, followed by the delivery month code, and the year.
Examples: ZCZ0, CLX0 etc.
Month | Code |
|---|---|
January | F |
February | G |
March | H |
April | J |
May | K |
June | M |
July | N |
August | Q |
September | U |
October | V |
November | X |
December | Z |
Use the following shortcuts when entering a futures symbol so that when the contracts expire, the application will automatically roll the contracts over to the new front month.
The * Shortcut
ZC*1 (ES*1, etc.) will return the front month for the specified commodity code
ZC*2 will return the second month out for the specified commodity code
ES*3 will return the third month out for the specified commodity code
CL*4 will return the fourth month out for the specified commodity code
GC*0 - Many futures contracts (such as Gold) have a "most active contract", a contract where most of the trading is focused, which is not necessarily the front month. For the current active contract, enter the root followed by *0.
The # Shortcut
You may also use the # character to add multiple months of futures contracts to a quoteboard.
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ZC#4 adds the first four front months of CBOT Corn to your quoteboard
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