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Date/Time: Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:32:01 +0000
Open Range - Study Not Showing
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| [2025-08-05 01:45:41] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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I am trying to display the daily open range as a bar graph under my chart. I want to be able to scroll and see the difference of the high/lows of each day in the range I set. I use the attached high/low study and the study difference study to display it. Nothing is coming up on the screen . What am I doing wrong?
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| [2025-08-05 14:54:29] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 41652 |
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Without seeing the chart itself, our guess is that the issue is that there is only a single value being displayed for that study, as such the scaling does not know how to scale for a single value, so you will not see this as a "Line" display in that region. We recommend using the "Text Display for Study" to actually display the information. Refer to the following: Text Display For Study For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2025-08-05 21:22:07] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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I just used text display for study in the chart and applied it to the study subgraphs difference. It is still just a black screen. The bars on the top are the main price graph daily bars. I am trying to calculate a bar in the bottom subgraph for the total open range I have set for each day. When I have it on 15m timeframe, it gives me bar, but they don't correlate correctly.
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| [2025-08-05 21:59:58] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 41652 |
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Let's start at the beginning of this. What is the amount of time you want to use for the "Opening Range"? The reason we ask this is that most Sierra Chart studies are based on the bars themselves. So you can not try to get an opening range for the first 30 minutes of a Daily bar. A daily bar is going to just have the full days Open/High/Low/Close and nothing else. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2025-08-05 22:57:57] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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My range is from 9:30AM to 10AM
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| [2025-08-06 13:20:24] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 41652 |
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Then you need to have a chart that has bars that are less than or equal to 30 minutes and when 30 is divided by the bar period you get a whole number (i.e. you can have 1, 2, or 3 minutes, but not 4). Then you will get the proper data for that time. The next thing is that you should use the "Initial Balance" study, which gives you the range directly for a time period, rather than using a couple of other studies. Refer to the following: Initial Balance Then, if you want to see the most recent Initial Balance as a number on the screen, use the "Text Display for Study" to display it. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2025-08-06 19:11:05] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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I tried it on the 15min timeframe and it made bars like the green ones below in the picture.
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| [2025-08-06 19:59:18] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 41652 |
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Correct, as you have a constant High and Low for each period, so you are seeing a constant set of bars for each period. How exactly do you want to view the information? For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2025-08-06 23:07:25] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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I want the bars to display as the difference between high/low for each days period so I can tell at a glance when we have a very high open range because a bar will be giant compared to prior daily open range bars.
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| [2025-08-07 14:20:28] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 41652 |
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It sounds like you want just a single bar for each period. That is straightforward, as you would have to use either a "Color Bar Based on Alert Condition" to color out the ones you do not want to see during that time, or use a Spreadsheet Study and control what displays by the time. One thing you can do to cut down the number of bars displayed is to use the "High/Low for Time Period" study instead of the Initial Range. With this study, the lines will only be displayed over the time period of the defined range, so the bars from the difference will only be shown over that smaller time range. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2025-08-07 17:51:55] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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I believe I was using high/low for Time Period and this is where it was giving all of those bars. I was trying to only show 1 bar per day.
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| [2025-08-10 23:48:35] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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Any idea here because the high/low time period study is what I have been using from the start.
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| [2025-08-13 04:49:59] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 20830 |
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This might be a calculation order issue. Refer to: Chart Studies: Study Calculation Precedence And Related Issues Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2025-08-13 10:49:57] |
| Tr00pz - Posts: 24 |
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There's a few ways to do this. You need to set 'Line Stop Time' to the same as the end time so that it will only display the range bars within the opening range. First image shows it on 5-minute bars (or other bar periods that start a new bar on the 30-minute; 1/2/3/5/10/15). If you want just a single bar displayed for each day then you would need to use a bar period that is equal to the opening range. Alternatively, you could have an intraday chart with evening session disabled and set session start time to 9:30:00 and session end time to 09:59:59 with the bar period set to 30-minutes. This would display the bars side by side for each day so you can compare between days easier. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-08-13 10:50:57
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| [2025-08-13 13:05:33] |
| User969241 - Posts: 155 |
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That worked. Thank you
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