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[User Discussion] - bar time on SC, how does SC builds its bars?
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| [2013-05-25 18:34:50] |
| User75101 - Posts: 12 |
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new user to SC, since thursday night when I downloaded the program for testing... I cant find a clear answer to this in everything that I've read... so I figure I ask here... off the bat, I subscribe to the ACD method of trading.. so having a properly defined OR, PVR, and RPVR is important to me... I setup my day session to start at 9:30:00 and end at 16:15:00, night session starts at 16:15:01 and ends at 9:29:59 .... when I setup my pivots, ohlc, etc... I noticed that everything is off with time.. assuming I use 20m OR, and 20M bars... the Close of the 9:50 bar and not the 9:30 bar is being used to determine the high/low of the OR... does SC bars get build with the start time? meaning... the 9:30 20min bar begins at 09:30:00 and ends at 09:49:59? with 9:50 being the second bar of the day? curious because my other two platforms dont build the bars that way... the 20min bar with a session starting at 9:30 is the 9:50 bar... see attached for what I mean... so I guess my question is, how does SC build its bars? |
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| [2013-05-25 18:45:11] |
| ejtrader - Posts: 688 |
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User75101 - in SC - The timestamp of the bar shows the "Bar Open Time" rather than "Bar Close Time". Having used other platforms - "personally" - I like SC's method of using Open Bar Time as a timestamp. For example - if you take 5 minute bar - First bar on session would be: SC - 9:30 timestamp (9:30:00 to 9:34:59) Ninja - 9:35 timestamp (9:30:01 till 9:35:00) Thanks Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-05-25 18:47:30
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| [2013-05-25 18:47:09] |
| M5amhan - Posts: 468 |
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i dont know if this will answer your question.. but try ending your day session at 16:14:59 and starting night session at 16:15:00 then delete and download your data yes, SC bars will start at 9:30 and end at 9:49:59 for a 20 minute bar that reads "9:30" if you hover over it with a crosshair Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-05-25 18:54:19
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| [2013-05-25 19:02:26] |
| User75101 - Posts: 12 |
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ahhh... that makes sense... I will update all my times and see what that does... thank you all for the quick reply... thus far I am a bit impressed by SC considering how much time I spent on "porting" all the indicator setups I have on my CQG and IRT... if I can fix this then I can move on to conditions next...
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| [2013-05-25 19:05:53] |
| M5amhan - Posts: 468 |
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i put it together here, so if it doesnt plot right ill just tell you what i did |
| [2013-05-25 19:12:21] |
| User75101 - Posts: 12 |
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it worked now... something so simple as to ... it all charts correctly now... so thank you all for the quick replies once more.. now I just need to figure out a simple/better way to plotting night session High/Low across the day session... cuz right now I just get it to plot within Overnight.. :) Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-05-25 19:13:34
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| [2013-05-25 19:27:10] |
| M5amhan - Posts: 468 |
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just use another initial balance study but plot the start and end time the same as your night session and set everything but IB high and IB low to ignore i think this is what you are trying to do Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-05-25 19:28:59
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| [2013-05-25 19:30:16] |
| User75101 - Posts: 12 |
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hmmm... I hadnt thought about using IB study... thus far everything has been done with H/L for time period, PP Variable, Daily OHLC and PP Daily... I will give IB a try given that looks exactly like what I want... :) |
| [2013-05-25 19:36:03] |
| M5amhan - Posts: 468 |
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yes, sierra chart allows you to get creative lol
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| [2013-05-25 19:39:45] |
| User75101 - Posts: 12 |
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that worked, and it was way easier than what I had done... I guess I could have used IB study for everything... :) but not bad for less than 8 hours worth of work... doing all that I just did in 8 hours took me almost a month on CQG three years ago... am still having issues with the symbols(my spreads are not coming up and I am missing CBOT instruments event though IQFeed has them, and the Rolling 3 Day pivot is not quite right... but thus far, quite impressed with SC... now I will see what happens with creating alerts or signals... hopefully I dont have to create those via C++ via DLL... I have not done C in well over a decade... |
| [2013-05-26 02:12:24] |
| M5amhan - Posts: 468 |
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SC is the most customize-able charting package ive ever used while still maintaining that professional feel of a solid charting package you might have to take up the symbols with support, but i know i have seen multiple posts about spreads and symbols here so try that first the only way you would need to use C++ code is for a very complex alert, other than that you should be able to use simple alerts or a spreadsheet depending on what you are trying to do |
| [2013-05-26 05:03:00] |
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