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Date/Time: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:39:00 +0000



Feature Request - TTL for Drawing Tools

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[2022-01-09 22:18:34]
SavantTrader - Posts: 110
It would be great if we could set an expiration date (Time to Live) for the drawing tools.

I would imagine most of us use them to mark levels, zones, and trends. They tend to be useful up to a certain point in time, then they become clutter.

There is currently no simple mechanism to identify which drawings are older than others.

It would be nice to set a default expiration for each drawing, such as "expires: 180 days" and not have to worry about cleaning things up manually (which entails trying to figure out how old each object is).

Even if the "expiration" were only evaluated when SieraChart is first started (as part of garbage collection), that would be fine.
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2022-01-09 22:20:21
[2026-02-13 10:59:23]
Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 23212
This is not likely to be implemented but one option that is added in the latest release is this:
Chart >> Chart Settings >> Chart Drawings >> Draw Chart Drawings with Anchor Points Before First Date Time in Chart
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