Candle date's query.

[KeithN]

Hi,

Would someone please explain the bold date times on the bottom bar and how they work. I have included a screen shot which is a bit of a head scratcher for me.

Regards,
KeithN.

[KelvinHand]

Hi,

Would someone please explain the bold date times on the bottom bar and how they work. I have included a screen shot which is a bit of a head scratcher for me.

Regards,
KeithN.

Just the testing time in the test mode that all.

How it work - I think during your testing, it purpose is to show you the latest bar time in incremental of 1 min.

Goto 1min chart and tally the timing.

[KeithN]

Thank you KelvinHand for your response.

However it does not appear to fit the situation. The last Candle gives 2002.07.31 00:00 but the bold is 2002.08.01 - that is the next day. For which there is no Candle.

Do you see my dilemma?

Regards,
KeithN

[KelvinHand]

Thank you KelvinHand for your response.

However it does not appear to fit the situation. The last Candle gives 2002.07.31 00:00 but the bold is 2002.08.01 - that is the next day. For which there is no Candle.

Do you see my dilemma?

Regards,
KeithN

The 2002.07.31 is the cursor pointing location. when your cursor move to blank space, no OHLCV info shown, when cursor move to past data, the previous data OHLCV will be display but the bold datetime will still pointing to the current latest bar.

The chart shown may fool you because you are at higher timeframe. I think you are in Daily timeframe if i am not wrong. but the last bar may be just slightly pass 7:31 23:59. 2002.08.01 00:00 and stop test by you. at time of 0:0 that it could be a open price printed when you take the picture. That open price could be same as the previous close price when so small that you could not observe or it may cover by the ask/bid or other lines in the higher time frame.

Above just my assumption, we would not be able to know the exact true what is happening to your testing. Unless you can go down to 1min chart to view the exact timing of the last bar to comfirm the true timing during your test

This is what i see, you try to explore again and play around it and you see the true yourself.

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Since you are using the same data, i do a practical instead of above theoretical assumption, there are the observation:

so i try out and move the exact location where you are saying, 08/01 00:00 and 7/31 00:00 on daily timeframe.
On the 1min timeframe the bar close at 23:59. and FT2 actually advance to 08/01 00:00 open position while the last bar at 23:59. There is a 1min difference.

On the daily & 1 min timeframe, The bold datetime shown the advance time to 08/01 00:00 while no visible bar print yet.

However, because this time advance, on the daily timeframe, the bar is calculated as 07:31 00:00 as normal.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this.
Hope it help you.

[KeithN]

KelvinHand,

Many thanks for spending time on this analysis.

I understand what you have written and it has added to my knowledge. I really appreciate that.

Many thanks and regards,
KeithN