I'm having trouble understanding the grid/time alignment, compared to how the bars are drawn on charts.

Looking at a 5 minute chart, a bar will be forming on the 9:15 grid line, but the time of day is 9:12.
My assumption would be that all the data being formed on the 9:15 grid line would represent data between the times of 9:15 and 9:20. But this is not the case. It represents data from 9:10 to 9:15.

https://imgur.com/a/3Jut5vE

It is very confusing when I want to reference something on the chart, according to time.

Does anybody else find this strange? Or am I just not interpreting the time/data correctly?

nfgrufio,

Tradestation's bar times show the ending timestamp of a bar. A 5 minute bar with a timestamp of 9:15 would basically contain ticks from 9:10:01 to 9:15:00.

Regards,

ABCTG

nfgrufio 

I'm having trouble understanding the grid/time alignment, compared to how the bars are drawn on charts. Looking at a 5 minute chart, a bar will be forming on the 9:15 grid line, but the time of day is 9:12. My assumption would be that all the data being formed on the 9:15 grid line would represent data between the times of 9:15 and 9:20. But this is not the case. It represents data from 9:10 to 9:15. https://imgur.com/a/3Jut5vE It is very confusing when I want to reference something on the chart, according to time. Does anybody else find this strange? Or am I just not interpreting the time/data correctly?