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Re: Cash vs. Futures Woes



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Fleisher" <r6_5fpen8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> When you're dealing with this type of intraday trading frequency, you
> may want to do another comparison:  Offset your five minute bars.  In
> other words, make the close of your first 5 minute bar at the close of
> two minutes, and then close your bars every 5 minutes after that.
> 
> There are other ways to do this, but what comes to mind is to force
> your 5 minute system to run on 1 minute bars and write additional
> code to keep track of 5 minute intervals on one
> minute charts.  Adjust your indicators accordingly.

You can do this much easier. Change the session settings in your
GlobalServer. If you have the starting time at 09:00 change it to
09:01 From that moment your bars will start with an ofset of 1 minute.

You can do that for 09:02 09:03 etc.

This way is less work than writing code etc.

greetings