I'm trying to display a custom date range on a chart for the 1m time frame. I would like the chart widow to show 85 bars worth of 1 min bars, and I would like the total date range to be from 1/1/2009 - 31/12/2009.
I have altered the number of days of intraday data to load following this post:
I load a fresh chart, choose the 1m time frame. The entire data range is now from 2008 -> 2012, but I only want 2009.
I then click on the scroll bar -> "Select start and end dates". I set this range 1/1/2009 -> 12/31/2009, but the chart only shows from 1/1/2009 - 13/1/2009.
When I go back to "Select start and end dates", that is also the range that is now showing.
Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong or how to achieve what I am after?
I just want to see 1min bars and be able to scroll left and right to move through 2009 and see all the entries and exits resulting from a backtest for those dates.
That's what I have tried and it doesn't work. I should have mentioned that I have used "Lock Start & End Positions" but that only fixes the incorrect range.
I want it to span the entire year, but even when I choose the end date as 12/31/2009, the range only displays from 1/1/2009 - 13/1/2009. This is only 13 days but I want 365.
So if I then "Lock Start & End Positions" (which I know is the functionality I need), it locks to the 13 days. Incidentally this is 10000 bars. Is there maybe a limit of 10000 bars that means you can't select a year of minute data?
Ok, thanks for confirming. It would be useful to be able to set a date range of more than 10000 bars.
Please can you suggest an improvement to this to the dev team.
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