Does it help if you adjust the settings for intraday data at Tools >> Preferences >> Intraday >> Alignment and Timestamp?
Personally I like my intraday basetime to be 1 min as a trade off between accuracy and data download/storage volumes ...... IMO finer granularity gives you a sharper picture i.e. I would like to go lower, to help avoid the type of issues you are having, and the only reason I don't is because my computer and my computer skills are average (1 min is recommended by AB). I have used 1 min databases and 'tuned' the database settings to get them spot on so that I can work quite happily in daily timeframe by simply using compression ... it works beautifully and for me it is better than using eS in mixed EOD/intraday mode because the 'compressed' daily Highs & Lows tehn correspond well with the intraday patterns. I don't mix EOD/intraday because eS EOD is adjusted and intraday is not.... so it is worth persevering with the settings. --- In [email protected], "professor77747" <profes...@...> wrote: > > If I use an hourly chart with an hourly bar, does the bar close every > hour at exactly one hour later? > > I have noticed that when I use a 6 hour chart the bars do not close > at exactly 6 hours later. Sometimes there may be up to a ten minute > difference. I have also noticed that if I close AB and reopen it, > sometimes the new bar is there after the backfill. > > I have my base time interval in the database setting set to hourly. > Would it make a difference if I changed it to 1 minute? > > I am trying to duplicate the trades made in the backtest. I know that > the prices will vary, but I would like to have the trades match as > close as possible to the time. I use autotrading with a market order > so the trades are made promptly. > > It is just that some trades are not made because the bar doesn't > close for several minutes after my trading period has closed. > > Thanks, > Tom >
