Getting the hourly bar open value for an indicator in market analyzer

[bigtrader]

Probably a beginner question.

I am trying to create a simple indicator for the market analyzer to show the netchange for the current hourly bar. When I set the indicator as a column in the Market analyzer and choose 60 minutes in the Data series section the value is based on the last 60 minutes instead of the hourly bar.

How do I get the data for the current hourly bar (9:00 to 10:00 etc.) instead of the last 60 minutes?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello bigtrader,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

If you want to get a value from a time that you specify, you can see this reference sample for help with GetBar()

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=19176

[bigtrader]

Thanks for your reply.

I don't really want to get the value at a specific time. I just want to indicator to work as a column in Market analyzer in the same way as on the chart.

I want it to be based on an hourly data series instead of the last 60 minutes as is happening in market analyzer right now.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

The start and end time of the market analyzer bars is based on the session template applied. You can check this with the Right Click > Properties screen.

It may be a matter of aligning the chart session template with the market analyzer session template.

Then, CalculateOnBarClose settings could impact this as well. If set to false, then it looks at the in-process bar, which is time stamped according to the last tick. If set to true, then it looks at the last completed bar.

[bigtrader]

Thanks. Works now. The issue was with setting the session template.