Bug in time scale in Charts?

[richard]

Hi. I'm not sure why I am having this problem on 2 different machines.

If you open up a Chart window and select 15 minute time interval (actually this happens on 1 minute time frames too, but its very noticeable on 15 minutes), when the time is at 21:03, the chart window will show you that it is updating the bar for 21:15 and not 21:00 which is what is expected. I am developing custom indicators and I scanned all the various topics under Charts and cant believe if this was a bug that no one reported it before? I have it on both machines, including one machine where I deleted my custom indicator, it still shows the same "time frame ahead" problem. I am not loading my indicator yet when I observe this, so I dont believe its my indicator.

Also regarding my custom indicator development, I am trying towiden the intervals between the bars. I have used my mouse to drag to do this, but it seems to stop at a certain point and I was wondering if there was a way to widen it further. My indicators involve plotting text on the price points and right now, the text from different bars run into each other.

Also is there a way to set the y-axis to plot all the price points on the e-mini by default? In other words, I would like the y-axis to show 1256, 1255.75, 1255.5, 1255.25, 1254, etc.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

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richard wrote:

Hi. I'm not sure why I am having this problem on 2 different machines.

If you open up a Chart window and select 15 minute time interval (actually this happens on 1 minute time frames too, but its very noticeable on 15 minutes), when the time is at 21:03, the chart window will show you that it is updating the bar for 21:15 and not 21:00 which is what is expected. I am developing custom indicators and I scanned all the various topics under Charts and cant believe if this was a bug that no one reported it before? I have it on both machines, including one machine where I deleted my custom indicator, it still shows the same "time frame ahead" problem. I am not loading my indicator yet when I observe this, so I dont believe its my indicator.

>>> This is by design. All ticks betwenn 21:00:00 and 21:01:00 make it into the 21:01 bar (on a 1-minute chart). This e.g. prevents you from potentially using data which is in the future.

Also regarding my custom indicator development, I am trying towiden the intervals between the bars. I have used my mouse to drag to do this, but it seems to stop at a certain point and I was wondering if there was a way to widen it further. My indicators involve plotting text on the price points and right now, the text from different bars run into each other.

>>> There are NT internal limits which you can not exceed.


Also is there a way to set the y-axis to plot all the price points on the e-mini by default? In other words, I would like the y-axis to show 1256, 1255.75, 1255.5, 1255.25, 1254, etc.

>>> Not doable

Thanks