Given that there are 420

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    Posted by rojoch on 7th of Mar 2018 at 02:06 pm

    Given that there are 420 trading minutes in a day, is there an issue where your timeframes overlap multiple days because 420 is not an even multiple of 15, 60, etc?  Or does the last bar of the day just cover a smaller time interval than the rest?  Thanks!

    woops, I meant 390 minutes

    Posted by rojoch on 7th of Mar 2018 at 02:07 pm

    woops, I meant 390 minutes in a trading day.

    yes for daily charts that

    Posted by matt on 7th of Mar 2018 at 02:10 pm

    yes for daily charts that trade with the cash market, there are 390 min in the day.

    however for futures charts that trade 23 hrs a day you can use 1440 min charts, which essentially gives you a daily bar.  Why would one do that if it ends up looking just like a daily chart? Because you can set custom time sessions that can be useful

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