Description
cTrader gives you 14 minute timeframes and 7 hourly ones. If your strategy lives on 13 minutes, 90 minutes or 5 seconds, today you cannot even look at it. This plugin creates the timeframe you need and adds it to the native timeframe menu, as if it had always been there: crosshair, indicators, drawing tools and templates work like on any other chart.
What you can create
- Seconds, from 1 to 3600
- Minutes, from 1 to 1440
- Hours, from 1 to 168
- Tick bars, one bar every N ticks
- Range bars, one bar every N pips
- Heikin-Ashi on every one of them, tick and range included
Real history. From one minute up, bars are built from 1-minute bars, with the same depth as the native timeframes: years, not hours. Below one minute, and for tick and range bars, from your broker's ticks, with all the history the broker provides.
One panel, three steps. In the Trade Watch you get a Timeframes panel: type a number, pick the unit, press Create. The timeframe appears in the chart menu and, if you like, in the quick bar. Your list is saved between sessions. Timeframes work on every symbol.
In your language. The panel and the on-chart notices follow cTrader's language: 22 languages.
Good to know
- cTrader Desktop only, Windows and Mac. Not on Web or mobile.
- The plugin must stay enabled: it is the data provider for your timeframes.
- After switching account, cTrader clears charts on custom timeframes: the plugin tells you on the chart, and disabling and re enabling it rebuilds everything. This is a platform limitation.
- Below one minute, history depth depends on your broker.
Résumé
Key features include:
- Custom timeframes in seconds (1 to 3600), minutes (1 to 1440), and hours (1 to 168).
- Tick bars (one bar per N ticks) and range bars (one bar per N pips).
- Heikin-Ashi chart style available on all custom timeframes, including tick and range bars.
- Historical data for bars from one minute and above is constructed from native 1-minute bars, providing extensive history. For sub-minute, tick, and range bars, data comes from broker-provided ticks with available history depth.
- User-friendly interface with a single panel in Trade Watch: enter number, select unit, create timeframe. Custom timeframes appear in the chart menu and can be saved between sessions.
- Supports all symbols and follows cTrader’s language settings (22 languages).
The plugin must remain enabled to provide data for custom timeframes and is subject to platform limitations such as chart clearing after account switching. It is not available on cTrader Web or mobile versions.
