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What does it mean to "mark" a symbol for intraday monitoring?

When a symbol is marked for intraday monitoring, it has 2 main consequences :

Reminder: What are the futures contract settlement prices ?

On futures markets, settlement prices are the official closing prices for futures and options contracts, reflecting the fair market value at a specific point in time, typically the end of the trading day. These prices are used for daily marking-to-market to calculate profits and losses, as well as to determine final contract values and margin requirements. 

This support page, starting with a quick reminder of key notions about individual future contract specifications, discusses the different types of continuous contracts and how they are built and accessible within Investor/RT.

Part 1 - Futures 101: contract symbols, “front month” and rollover calendar notions

Here are a few reminders about futures contract specifications 

1.1) Future Contract symbol

This support page discusses how “Full Session” and “Day Session” are being defined in the instrument setup window, which is important to know when later used within specific indicators (Session statistics, Session Prices, Mixed Periodicity Data etc) for generating key market levels and statistics. Sessions are also used as key input for selecting chart display viewing periods.