Daily chart not showing high

[nepenthean]

Please ignore the GC chart. On SI, I placed an arrow under the 1 min bar at 5 31am arizona time which is 8 31am EST. This is during RTH, and the high part of the range is 24.675.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello nepenthean,

Unfortunately you time zone calculation is incorrect. Arizona uses US Mountain time, which is 2 hours earlier than US Eastern time. So 5:31 AM MST is excluded as per RTH.

[nepenthean]

Jason,

Where you are getting that information? Right now it is 6 54p in arizona, and I googled new york time, 9 54p.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

When I search on Google, it lists Mountain time zone.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=arizona+time+zone&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=44cfd09299501d20

When I check Wikipedia Mountain time zone is listed for Arizona as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Time_Zone

It does list 'Navajo Nation' as excluded - could it be the machine is located there?

[nepenthean]

.Something is incorrect. Please review the following images. Check what time my system tray clock indicates and what time the sites indicate.

The fist image on the left indicates new york time is 9 20am. My sys tray indicates it is 6 20am, But mountain time zone indicates 7 20am.

In the second image, google validates my computer's clock, but mountain time zone is still showing an hour ahead.

Also, why does the 24/7 template not show prices for the 24 hours of a day. If I wanted RTH prices could I not select an RTH template?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Could this perhaps be related to the end of daylight savings time in Phoenix - Arizona?

When I check the link below, it lists Mountain time for Phoenix - Arizona and not Pacific time as per your second screenshot.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=197

Daily data is loaded starting 6:30 AM and not 5:30 AM. It justifies the daily high as well.

[nepenthean]

Arizona does not observe daylight savings time. The link you provided indicates this twice. The screen shots I provided prove irrefutably new york is 3 hours ahead as of the date of data in question. I appreciate your assistance with respect to this problem, but based on what time I know it is here in Arizona and what time I know it is in new york with the fact RTH starts at 8 25am new york time, the high as per my previous post should be included in the daily chart.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

I see, Arizona does not use daylight savings time.

After further investigation, daily data as per the SI is loaded starting 9 AM EST, so it will exclude historical data before that.

By default, the Nymex Metals RTH1 session template is selected for the SI. It uses a starting time of 9 AM EST as well.

[nepenthean]

Ok, thanks Jason.

Do you know why SI daily data is loaded starting 9 am EST? If I want 24/7 data, it makes sense my daily chart should load data from the entire day?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Unfortunately historical daily data is loaded for RTH only - it does not include data outside the regular trading hours.

You could use an interval of 1440 minutes to create bars that contain an entire day.

[nepenthean]

Ok, thanks.

Where would I indicate 1440 minutes for a the daily chart? Under data series, data, 'days to load' is the only interval I see.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

You would set 'Type' to Minute and enter a value of 1440 next to 'Value' under the 'Period' options.

[nepenthean]

Thank you Jason for your consistent help regarding this issue. Is there a way to save this option to the Interval menu?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

You are welcome nepenthean. Yes, please right click in the grid of the Data Series menu and select 'Set Default For Minute Period Type'. Each time you select the minute period type in the Data Series menu, it will automatically list 1440 next to value.