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Representing Futures Contract Trading Sessions in CTA Strategies

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Summary

The document raises a practical CTA development question: how to obtain trading-session information for individual futures contracts. It provides a sample `trading_time` value with separate daytime and nighttime periods, represented as start and end times in a structured field.

This example shows that session schedules may include multiple intraday intervals and a night session extending past midnight, expressed with an hour value beyond 24. However, the document does not explain how to query this field, where the schedule data originates, how it varies across contracts, or how a strategy should handle holidays and schedule changes. It is a narrow data-format example rather than a complete implementation guide.

Key ideas

  • A contract trading schedule can be represented as separate day and night sessions.
  • A single daytime session may contain multiple intervals separated by breaks.
  • The example encodes a night-session end time using an hour beyond 24.
  • The document poses a retrieval question but does not provide a method for querying the schedule.

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FuturesChina markets

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