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Date/Time: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:48:40 +0000
At some point, we need more than two (day/evening) sessions
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| [2025-04-22 22:39:04] |
| joshtrader - Posts: 510 |
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I realize that the two Day/Evening sessions concept is so baked into SC's core code and studies that it will probably never happen, but we need the ability to have more than 2 sessions. Pretty much all futures contracts follow the same pattern: * Session open which is 6pm ET for most * Cash/pit session the next day (9am for crude, 9:30 for equity index, 8:20 for treasuries, etc.) * Post-settlement (2:30pm for crude, 4pm for ES, 3pm for treasuries, etc.) The same pattern applies for US stocks. 4am pre-market open, 9:30am cash open, 4pm post-market open. (More exotic futures contracts have pauses and are not as straightforward) Each new session should have a new bar. That is the main requirement. For a volume profile, I can do custom intraday sessions, but without a new bar, they will never be accurate. There is no way to achieve 3 separate profiles which have accurate start/end times, for the above cases. If we could just have some way to create a new bar at one more time, it would suffice. I'm not holding my breath, but I at least wanted to express that this is a limitation currently. |
| [2025-04-23 08:32:16] |
| User135243 - Posts: 80 |
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Each new session should have a new bar. That is the main requirement
of course it is possible to start a new bar at session start: go to Chart and Chart-Settings and Sessions Times and there you can set New Bar Át Session Start to YES (not sure, maybe I missread your question) |
| [2025-04-24 00:36:35] |
| joshtrader - Posts: 510 |
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Yes, you misread my question. We have a new bar at the day session, and a new bar at the evening session (say, 9:30 and 18:00). However, to delineate the post-settlement session at 16:00, we need a new bar then as well. This is not a huge issue with time bars, but is a problem with other kinds of bars. |
| [2025-04-24 03:54:31] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 19383 |
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Is this a typical requirement. Why not put that one hour from 4 PM to 5 PM Eastern time, for example in the case of equity futures, either into the evening session or the day session.
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| [2025-04-24 04:55:46] |
| joshtrader - Posts: 510 |
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If the 4pm to 5pm ET is put into the evening session, then the evening session will not have proper highs/lows (a profile, for example). If it's put into the day session, then even with a custom subsession on the VbP study, two problems occur: (1) the two sessions (9:30 to 4pm, and 4pm to 5pm) are not properly contained in their respective profiles, and (2) when hiding the evening session, the 4pm to 5pm extra profiles still show up. I understand that it's not likely to get changed, due to scope of work, but I at least wanted to raise it as a feature request, in case you guys ever decide to rework some stuff, and it becomes feasible. Note that with a product like crude oil, it's an even bigger thing, because the time between settlement at 2:30pm and last trade at 5pm is so large. |
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