Show Gaps on Daily Futures Bars?

[Showa50]

Anyone know of a way to show gaps on a daily futures chart? I only want to see data from open (8:30cst) to close (3:00cst) on a day chart. Since Futures are a 24hr contract I'd like to ignore the after-market/pre-market ticks.

Thanx.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Showa50,

Thank you for your post.

With version 6.5, the session times of daily charts will be determined by your provider. The only control for session times is with intraday charts. You can right click on your chart > Properties > and then adjust Session Begin and Session end.

With our upcoming version 7 you can select or define a session template that is used to construct daily bars.

[Harry]

To produce daily futures data with a gap, you would need

(1) to switch to NT 7
(2) use the session manager to define the session template from 8:30 to 3:00 CST
(3) select this session template under instrument settings
(4) load intraday data for the period you want to cover with daily data
(5) export this intraday data via the historical data manager
(6) reimport this same data as daily data

You will now have daily bars that show the gap.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Thanks for sharing those detailed instructions, Harry!