Futures charting on thinkorswim is a constant headache

[timdug]

Technically this is not correct. As I have it, the /CL is the spot price continuous and back adjusted. then as you type in say /CLF21 you will get the exact contract month non back adjusted.
It seems that there is not continuous spot back adjusted for every product. Like I can't get /GC to show me the full back adjusted gold spot price, it will automatically jump to the front month future exact contract.

Maybe you should learn to use the software before you start a ridiculously titled thread.
You need to type in the actual contract like /CLU9 or /CLV9, you typed in /CL which allows the software to “guess” which the active contract is.
One can say that they don’t like the software guessing for you because it gets confusing around expiration, but this is easily rectified by typing in the actual full contract into the chart to eliminate any problems.
I have traded futures with them for quite some time, and while they do have the occasional problem, like any broker, they don’t have many.