Synchronising 60min candles to the hour

[bryang]

Hi,
I have had a bit of a search of the threads, and I expect the answer is in there somewhere, but I cannot find what I'm looking for....yet!

I want 1-hour candles. NT6.5 has 60min, and daily, but not hourly.
I gather the 60min candle is based on the 1min candle, thus an hour candle is displayed after 60 minutes relative to the time I opened a graph.
How do I set the time stamp to commence the 60 minute period at the top of the hour? eg: a candle is from 15:00.00 to 15:59.99, etc.

(I have been playing with a bit of the Ninja indicator C# coding & slowly getting to understand it, but am a long way from being proficient!)

Cheers, Bryan.

[NinjaTrader_RyanO]

Hi Bryan,

Thank you for your post.

When you create a chart using 60 minute bars the time stamp will begin from the Chart Properties Session Begins time. By default this time is set to 12:00 AM, and so each bar will be an hour, every hour, starting at 12:00 AM, so it is already synchronized to what you would like to do.

If you want you can right click on the chart and then select Properties, and change the Session Begins time to be any hour, and that first bar, and every subsequent bar will represent an hour from the start time.