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Date/Time: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:12:46 +0000
Real-Time painting of the next time bar
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| [2026-09-09 22:06:26] |
| User724959 - Posts: 1 |
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Hello, this post will fairly long-winded ( plz bear with me, as I wanted to outline everything I did ) The issue, is in having the chart "paint a new bar" the minute the older one is finished with its time frame, ( ie, start painting a new bar every 15 minutes, for 15M bars ) ( Chart is for = 100 OZ Silver ) What I did so far: ================== 1. Chart Settings>>Bar Period>>Include Columns with no data = YES 2. Chart Settings>>Bar Period>>Session Times Session Start Time = 00:00:00 Session End Time = 23:59:00 3. Chart Settings>>Data Limiting>>Chart data Type = INTRADAY CHART ONLY 4. Chart Settings>>Bar Period>>Chart data Type = INTRADAY CHART ONLY 5. Chart Settings>>Session Times>>New bar at session Start = YES 6. Global Settings>>General Settings>>Subscribe to Real-Time data and download Historical data = YES 7. Global Settings>>Charts>>Allow New data in Unlocked fill space = YES 8. I cannot find the setting for = FORWARD PROJECTION BARS, and from a Google search, it seems like this is the most logical thing to do ( to get a bar to update in real-time In Sierra Charts ) I looked in: ============ Chart Settings>>Display ( as mentioned in the Google Search ), but I could not locate this setting. 9. Also, my 1M bars will not update either. These also lag several minutes behind ( pic 3 ). So clearly, several 1M bars have already occurred, but they are not updating in real-time ( painting to chart ) Even if there's no trade activity for 14 minutes, the toggled setting at ( 1 = above ) should have flushed these bars to the chart and shown them as "flat lines", which is what Sierra actually does, but with much older bars. So yes, "no trade-activity bars" do get flushed to chart, but for some reason, they don't do this in real-time. ( My laptop time is up-to-date, and TOTP login works, so I'm sure the local clock is synchronized ) How do I make the next bar paint in real time, based on its starting time? Trada_58376470 |
Pic 1.jpg| [2026-09-10 08:36:01] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 25262 |
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There is 100% no support at all for what you want to do. And we cannot spend any further time on this and we will not be responding further.
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2026-09-11 13:29:23] |
| Sawtooth - Posts: 4358 |
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You are not the only user who has asked for this, or at least questioned why. All bars in Sierra are built on trade activity, including time based bars. ...which means new time-based bars will not draw if there is no time-stamped trade activity. IOW, there will not be a new time-based bar until there is time-stamped trade activity for that bar's time stamp. IOW, new time-based bars are not initiated by the computer clock, only by time-stamped trade activity. |
| [2026-09-11 13:44:04] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 25262 |
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This never will come and such functionality makes no sense whatsoever!! And yes post #4 does explain the reasons for this. We are simply not going to be nice about this all. This request is exceedingly stupid to the maximum. There are so many so many problems with it and it is just simply insane. All that we would be doing is setting up ourselves and users for all kinds of problems. This request is simply hyper stupid. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-09-11 14:31:45
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