Is it possible to have SC start a new daily bar when the market opens at 6pm? Everything I’ve read in the documentation says to reverse the starting and ending times for intraday charts but nothing I can find for Daily charts.


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Yes. Use an intraday chart set to 1440 mins and the start time to where you want the open to be.

Thank you sir! Do I still have to reverse the start and end times? I’m not at my computer at the moment.


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Yep. If you want the start tick to be at 6pm that should be the start time.

I finally have the bars high and low to match the CME but the daily(1440m) chart at the bottom shows the last bar as Feb 11 instead of Fed 12. I have start time as 17:00:00 and end time as 16:00:00 and not using evening session time. If I am reading the documentation correctly there is no way around the chart reading as the previous day. I have tried about every combination I can think of. Is this how you have your times set?

Thanks

To get the bar's date stamp of a 1-0-0 chart to use the date that follows a previous day's 18:00:00 ET start, you'll need to:
- Change the Start Time to 00:00:00, so it is 6 hours later.
- Change the Time Zone to Brussels (+1 CET/+2 CEST), so it is also 6 hours later.

Sierra's bar datetime timestamp is at the bar's Open, so if the Open is at 18:00, it will show that day's date.
Note: This workaround will still be off at DST changes because Brussels and New York do not change on the same day.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/belgium/brussels
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/usa/new-york

Bottom line: There is no way to do exactly what you want.

Comparing the OHLC values of a 'daily' 1-0-0 bar created with intraday data (.scid) to an Historical - Daily bar that uses Daily data (.dly) may not always be exact:
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/helpdetails12.html