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Date/Time: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:33:37 +0000
SierraChart way beyond in most areas - 1 killer feature missing - object timeframe control
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| [2022-07-25 01:15:46] |
| HumblyTrading - Posts: 192 |
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Hello SC Team, As a Forex/Futures trader, I am very familiar over the years with MT4, cTrader, JForex, and TradingView, and a handful of others which I am less familiar with. SierraChart has many capabilities and features the advanced user will want which those platforms cannot every have. In many ways, SC is just light years beyond the competition. However, there remains one feature which all of the competition possesses by default, which is sadly missing in SierraChart, and causes some users to still have to rely upon other platforms. Any trader who uses multiple time frames in their approach needs to assign what time frames drawing objects should appear on and which they should not. If a user relies upon rays, lines, text, rectangles, fibos, etc., to make trading decisions, they will usually draw an object on the Hourly View and want to see it on the m15, m5, m1, etc. But, these objects would only be clutter on the H4, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc. Similarly, they would draw these objects on the Higher Time Frames to base swing and contextual decisions, but these would be clutter on the Lower Time Frames. Every other platform has this feature of being able to assign the time frames which objects can be viewed on. There are so many strengths with SierraChart, that it overrules this glaring issue, however, this is a significant gap versus the sub-par competition, and has a direct negative impact on traders who attempt to trade using multiple time frames. There is a workaround, which basically relies upon the copy chart settings. Unfortunately, this does not help most of the time, because there are many objects which do need to be shared across all charts, such as lines of support, resistance, etc. The solution which TradingView utilizes is probably the most advanced versus the competition, and involves setting the scales of time which any individual and/or type of object should appear. These can then be set as defaults or templates for that object type, and reused, to save the user a lot of clicks. Please consider adding this essential capability. Best regards, Mike T |
| [2022-07-25 03:19:21] |
| Infinite - Posts: 134 |
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I can draw something one 1 chart frame and can see in on any chart if Chart/Chart Drawing/Copy Chart Drawings from speciaifed chart is filled in. Been doing that for almost a decade now
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| [2022-07-25 04:58:21] |
| HumblyTrading - Posts: 192 |
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To clarify: User created a drawing on the 4Hr chart of an instrument, for example, an extended rectangle. User then selected to allow copy to other charts - same instrument, different time frames. The next part is missing: User wants to tell SierraChart only to show this extended rectangle on timeframe less than 4hr, but exclude it from time frames above 4Hr. This can be done inside each drawing object on all of the other platforms I mentioned. SierraChart team, Please consider adding this. Mike |
| [2022-07-25 08:27:50] |
| User585104 - Posts: 148 |
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You mean this? Copying Chart Drawings from Other Charts Automatically |
| [2022-07-25 09:28:46] |
| HumblyTrading - Posts: 192 |
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No I mean visibility of an object based on timeframe. See image. Thanks |
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| [2022-08-10 20:05:33] |
| HumblyTrading - Posts: 192 |
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Hello SierraChart Team, I recognize there are many priorities under development. I wonder if you might consider putting this in the mix, as it is a major aspect of multi-time-frame trading capabilities. One of the strengths of SierraChart is its ability to control other charts (and thus other timeframes) in so many ways. It would complete the suite of capabilities if drawings/tools were able to be controlled according to timeframe visibility. Thank you! Mike T |
| [2022-08-11 09:41:22] |
| Calculus - Posts: 106 |
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I've noticed this as well with 'stationary text'. If you put a note or two on a 5m chart, you don't want that appearing on the daily. But if you link all charts (to say change market automatically) there's no way (I believe) of not having the stationary text on the daily. The OP is right by the way, SC is way ahead of the others. |
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