Hi,

I've just started to have a look at NinjaTrader and I notice that the candle close times are different to most other charting packages - the time of the candle is the close, rather than the open. I don't like this is there anyway to change it? Here's an example screenshot.



and here's my eSignal equivalent. Times are UK.



Is there a way to change it so that the time is displayed as the opening time instead of the closing?

no, but you can always program your own bar with time stamp you want.

keymoo 

Hi, I've just started to have a look at NinjaTrader and I notice that the candle close times are different to most other charting packages - the time of the candle is the close, rather than the open. I don't like this is there anyway to change it? Here's an example screenshot. and here's my eSignal equivalent. Times are UK. Is there a way to change it so that the time is displayed as the opening time instead of the closing?

-> the eSignal chart has in realtime a wrong time... the open time is only valid for the open tick...
-> the Ninja chart has in realtime wrong time values... the "close time" is only valid for the close tick and is from open until close in the future !?
=> in the elite section you find my t4tBetterBars as NT7 bartype for Minute&Second based time charts with only using true real timestamps...

pros:
- any new bars has on open the timestamp of the first tick in this bar
- for all next ticks inside the bar period with this type you have the true timestamp of the last tick as real "bar time"

cons:
- the bar duration defined by time period is right, only the bar time (=time of last tick inside the bar) can be different from bar to bar, if a bar not have a tick on the first/last second of used time frame... its no problem, this is real trading !