Alert Time stamp

[marketstudent]

I am using zen-fire data, and I believe NT uses system clock to decide the candle bar close and plot the chart, and the time stamp of the candle bar on the charts looks correct to me.

I have a simple strategy that generates alerts based on the 5-min bar chart or 10-min bar chart. "CalculateOnBarClose" is set to true. The timestamp of the alerts in the Alerts window are like "3:39:43 PM", "9:44:38 AM". Since the strategy works on the bar close only, I am expecting the alert time stamp will be like "3:40:01 PM".

Please advise.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

marketstudent, the ZenFire data would be timestamped natively - for the Alerts it sounds like your local PC clock is running about 20 secs early - have you tried synching it up with an internet time server?

[marketstudent]

Do you mean that Strategy uses native data time stamp while NT chart uses system clock to draw the candle bar ?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

marketstudent, no but the reported timestamp in the Alerts window is linked to your PC clock.