vrtrader64 Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 I am having trouble ensuring consistency across intraday charts when showing extended hours trades. The amount of data varies depending on how active a particular stock is in extended hours. That makes the time period shown in EH vary by stock. Example below: charts of GDXJ and GLD show Ext.Hrs for current day, and GDXJ starts at 05:54 while GLD starts at 05:27, so the time axes do not line up. Is there any way in MT to specify fixed period(s) for extended hours (i.e. 06:00-09:30 and 16:00-17:00) so that the same time frames are shown no matter what symbol is selected ? If this is not currently possible, would you please add it as a feature request ? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Medved Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 Sure, just create a custom time frame that includes those periods, and show the charts using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrtrader64 Posted February 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 Thanks, but how can I get the extended-hours shading applied to what is not the standard 09:30-16:00 equity trading times ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 can't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrtrader64 Posted February 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 then please consider this a low-priority feature request : apply shading to specific ext.hour times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Medved Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 I think when we do the Paintbars, one of the conditions of paintbars may be time-based, and one of the coloring options would be background color... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrtrader64 Posted February 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 OK, thanks. I find it useful to quickly toggle the display of extended hours trades on/off. Could you add a button to the chart, or else create a menu option that accomplishes the same thing when added to the QAT? Here is an example from the Nexa platform (the little clock symbol in the bottom right corner) to toggle EH on/off: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrtrader64 Posted February 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 (sorry, the above should have been in the Feature Requests section) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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