Data not pulling on the 180 day / 4 hour chart

[mastertrader]

[Jerry Medved]

max # of days on intraday charts is 120 in MT so you would never be able to get 180

Though 120 is max, you are also limited by your datafeed. Not all are able to do 120. IB for example is max 10. Which one are you using?

[mastertrader]

TOS platform.  TD Ameritrade.

[Jerry Medved]

TD Ameritrade should be able to do 120. check 2 places:

1) SETTINGS / CHARTS / GENERAL - make sure max # of days of intraday data is set to 120

2) SETTINNGS / DATA SOURCES / CONFIGURE ACCOUNTS - click on TD Ameritrade and then on the right, set Intraday Backfill to 120.

After making the changes, explicitly click on the backfill button on the chart.

[mastertrader]

Awesome. Will check the settings as recommended. Also for 2 day and 4 day chart would the calculation be 390 minutes per trading day x 2 and 4 respectively?

[Jerry Medved]

what exactly would be 2 and 4 days? if you are viewing 1 min frequency chart and want to get indicator equivalent of 2 day frequency, then yes, assuming you have the chart set to NOT show extended hours

[mastertrader]

Sorry I didn't understand.  So the frequency is not the multiplier.  Say if I set the frequency to 1 min which Indicator should I be using to get a 2 day chart or a a 4 day chart.  By this I mean 2 day candle and 4 day candle charts.

[Jerry Medved]

Lets say you want to see a SMA(9) on a 2 day chart, but see it on a 1 min chart. You would want to view SMA(7020) 

(390 x 2 x 9)

[mastertrader]

So, is this calculation, correct?  How can I add these indicator settings directly on a chart?  Also, if were to add these to a scan how would the scan setup look like? 

1,5,10,30,60, 240 minutes
1 min - SMA7020        (390x2x9)
5 min - SMA35100       (390x2x9x5)
10 min - SMA70200      (390x2x9x10)
30 min - SMA210600     (390x2x9x30)
60 min - SMA 421,200   (390x2x9x60)
240 min  SMA 1,684,800 (390x2x9x240)

On your first screenshot, you had 60 bars / 2 days setup.  How would you go about setting this up on the chart?  

Many thanks!!

 

[Jerry Medved]

as far as adding to the chart, just add SMA(7020) and thats it. Not sure what you mean by how to set it up - just set the custom period to whatever you want, though it doesn't really matter for the computation. Scan would have the exact same indicator values, but you would only be able to use it with 1 min frequency selected.

NOTE: max 120 days. In that example, 5 min would be 2x9x5 or 90 days. 10 min would be 180 and thus over the limit

Basically I think you are starting to hit the limits of the intraday chart. May want to adjust the requirements a bit

[Riker66]

I have the same problem. With TD i only get an intraday backfill for one day for MNQ. I set the settings like mentioned above.

[Jerry Medved]

TD Ameritrade has that issue. If you have a bunch of symbols that get just 1 day, be it on Hist charts or Intraday, let me know the symbols and I will report them and they usually get those fixed that day. I will report MNQ