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Control Bar - Custom historical bar period?

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[2024-02-21 07:57:18] #1 [Go To First Post]
esMike - Posts: 74
Is there any way to add a shortcut to the control bar for alternate daily historical data bar periods? When I use the custom bar period set to two or four days, it switches the chart to intraday data. There are no historical custom daily chart period options available.

[2024-02-21 15:44:21] #2 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 39699
It sounds like you have the option for "Chart >> Chart Settings >> Data Limiting >> Chart Data Type" set to "Intraday Chart Only". Then when you change the period to a daily or higher, it creates the bars based on the Intraday data and not the historical daily data. Set this to "Intraday Chart" and then when you change periods to a daily or higher, it will use the Historical Daily Data instead of the Intraday data. Refer to the following: Chart Settings: Chart Data Type (Chart >> Chart Settings >> Data Limiting >> Date Range and Limiting Method menu) For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-02-21 17:20:00] #3 [Go To First Post]
esMike - Posts: 74
No, that is not the case. The charts are all historical charts set to Daily/Weekly/Monthly. When I try to use the custom bar period to make custom daily timeframes... 2 Day, 4 Day, etc... It switches it to intraday. See attached.


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[2024-02-21 17:35:10] #4 [Go To First Post]
esMike - Posts: 74
The problem might be that there is no shortcut option for custom daily historical bars? Only monthly bars? See attached. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-02-21 17:35:20


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[2024-02-21 18:37:57] #5 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 39699
You are correct, the issue is that the "Custom Bar Period" control bar buttons are set for the Intraday bar periods. There is not an option to create a "Custom Bar Period" control bar button for historical time periods. This is something that could be using by creating a custom study. Refer to the following: Advanced Custom Study Interaction With Menus, Control Bar Buttons, Pointer Events For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-08-28 13:34:41] #6 [Go To First Post]
User754716 - Posts: 11
I have problems with the bar period for a quarterly,yearly chart. I have searched fro a way to change the bar period because they are way to big. If you choose to change to a yearly chart there is no way of changing to a daily bar period. The yearly bar period shows huge bars because each bar represents 1 year. Bar periods are tied to Intraday and this should not be difficult to change the code. How do we program the Control bar Buttons like the example above.

[2024-08-28 14:08:08] #7 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 39699
We are not understanding what you are wanting to do. Bar periods set the length of time for each bar - so setting a bar period of 1 year will create 1 bar per year. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-08-28 17:31:42] #8 [Go To First Post]
User754716 - Posts: 11
I wanted to customize the bar period for given time period like a month o year. If I create a year chart, I will get 1 bar per year and the chart title would say 1 Year. For analyzing charts this graphic representation is not practical. I am guessing that the only way to customize bar periods is by code.


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[2024-08-28 18:44:54] #9 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 39699
You are using incorrect terminology. The "Bar Period" is the amount of time (or whatever) that is contained within a single bar. We assume you want to see 1 years worth of data, but what is the actual Bar Period that you want to use? 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 day, 1 week, etc? In other words, how many bars do you want to view that make up that one year of data? Once you can answer the above, then we can tell you how to set it up. But do not refer to the "Bar Period" as the amount of time you want view overall in the chart. If you are wanting something else, then we are really not understanding what it is you want. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-08-28 23:09:09] #10 [Go To First Post]
User754716 - Posts: 11
I would like to see a month with about 30 bars or a year chart with about 80 bars. The other important setting should be the chart title which should reflect the Chart Bar Period Type chosen from the settings. If I choose a month it should say Monthly or Yearly. I know I can create a daily chart and scale it to be a month. I created a grid of 6 charts and each chart represents a time period. I use it to study the stock at a glance at different time periods. Thank you.


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[2024-08-29 13:24:02] #11 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 39699
A month with 30 bars means 1 day per bar and a year with 80 bars would 4 days per bar (giving ~90 bars). To do each of these follow these instructions: - 1 Month: -- Set "Chart >> Chart Settings >> Data Limiting >> Chart Data Type" to "Historical Chart". Select the "A" button to the right of the entry after selecting this to update the window after making this selection. -- Set "Chart >> Chart Settings >> Data Limiting >> Days to Load for Historical Chart Type: to be at least "30" -- Set "Chart >> Chart Settings >> Bar Period >> Historical Chart Bar Period Type" to be "Days". -- Set "Chart >> Chart Settings >> Bar Period >> Historical Chart Days Per Bar" to be "1". Do the same as above for another chart to get 1 year by setting the number of days to load to be at least 365 and then set the "Historical Chart Days Per Bar" to be "4". Since you are wanting header information that is different from what is displayed (i.e. you want it to state "Month" for a months worth of data, not a month per bar), you would need to add text to each chart to get this. You can do this by using the Drawing Tool for "Stationary Text". Refer to the following: Chart Drawing Tools: Type Text \| Stationary Text For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-08-29 22:00:33] #12 [Go To First Post]
User754716 - Posts: 11
Thank you for your response.

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