Calendar Spread Trading

Calendar Spread Trading

Calendar spread trading is possible with a IQfeed subscription since you can load all futures contracts in there and add front and back month futures together into new pairs. However you won't be able to backtest them too much because of the nature of futures contracts expiring, unless you may be able to backtest the continuous futures contract codes.
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