Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

How to Setup Custom Timeframe in Amibroker

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Setting 90 min charts in Amibroker one of the requirement of our marketcalls reader. Amibroker allows you to setup any sort of timeframe. To setup just follow the instructions

1)Open Amibroker
2)Make Sure that your database is Tick/1min/5min Database with sufficent number of bars to produce 90 min charts
3)Goto the Menu Bar-> Select Tools -> Preferences
4)From the Preferences Dialog Box Select -> Intraday Tab
5)Now in the Custom time intervals textbox type the required timeframe value. In our case the value is 90. And select minutes(s) from the unit dropdown box


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Sample USDINR Chart with 90 min timeframe is shown below.

Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

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11 Replies to “How to Setup Custom Timeframe in Amibroker”

  1. ALL READERS ,

    yesterday i am asking rajendra sir about 90 min chart setup and he replied in only one hour . we are so lucky that we have guied like rajendraji.

    thanx a lot rajendraji &
    god blless u

  2. Any one knows how to write an afl to plot say 25% above and below a particular moving average? For example 5sma and for this plot a line say 20% above and below the 5ema, user must be able to modify. Thanks.

  3. Is there a way to scan the market at the close of candle,my signals(buy/sell) are generated based close of candle (5min),the market here open at 9:15;00 ,if at 9:12:00 i choose AR time 5m and click on scan the next scan will happen only at 9:17:00,is there a way to make it happen at every 5 min interval instead ie at 9:20:00,9:25:00 ,9:30:00 regardless of what time i click on scan.

  4. Hi am from bangalore want to know something ….
    i want to know how to automaticaly select the option price using spot . for example @ 9.20 spot is 11380 so the afl shout take the ATM and need to plot the chart … it is possible in Amibroker?

  5. HI I NEED TO KNOW CAN WE SET CUSTOMIZED TIMEFRAME IN SECONDS IN AMIBROKER SAY 890 SECONDS TO BE PRECISE AND DOES CANDLE FORM AS PER 890 SECONDS SETTING

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