hi,

i tried with 4hr EURCAD and 15m EURCAD side by side. when i scroll 4hr, the 15m only move a few days back only.

can it be scroll to a few months before or a year ? when i start with today date 19/2/20222. the 15m can only be scrolled back to 10/1/2022 ?

Hello， Thanks for using. 

I don't particularly understand what you mean.

Do you set left sync or right sync?  

left sync means : The bar time on the far left of the chart is sync.

right sync means : The bar time on the far right of the chart is sync.

Do you use the 15M chart point to the 4H chart, or the 4H chart point to the 15M chart ? 

if you set the 15M chart point to the 4H chart,  when 15M moves more, 4H usually moves less. 

if you set the 4H chart point to the 15M chart,  when 4H moves less, 15M usually moves more.

Hi Yu Zhang,

I open 2 charts (left chart with 4hr) and (right chart with 15m).

Which chart should i attach the indicator ?

and which sync should i use ? i want to be able to scroll back the 4hr chart back to 1 year ago, and will the 15m chart follow ?

maybe my setting is wrong. pls advise

According to your description, 

first, you should open 4h chart. 

second, you should open 15m chart.

than, add sync indicator to 15m chart.

now, you can see, when you move 4h chart, 15m chart will also move synchronously.

òk Yu Zhang, I will try it again

Many thanks!

I just purchased this indicator, in part, to do back-testing on "fractal" rallies and pullbacks at peak and valley intervals to see how one could enter a trade when three or four timeframes are all close to a valley (buy) or peak (sell) in order to (1) avoid a large initial drawdown (2) enter an close-to-optimum trade nearer to it's greatest potential profit.

I found what I believe to be a design flaw, because I'm finding it difficult to know exactly what candle is the "active" one on each screen without zooming in too far, and, in addition, I've discovered that several 1M candles (over 100!) go by (as well as the others on higher timeframes) without any synchronization at all occurring.

At 60 candles on the 1M having been scrolled through, all four timeframes that I've used in the example below should also be scrolling. They do not, as you will see.

In the images below, we have GBPJPY with four timeframes: M1, M5, M15, H1.
Note that in the first image that all four are moved fully to the right (right arrow key) and that the "control window" is in the M1 timeframe.

What I would change in the programming:

While charts are "inactive" (market is closed) all movement of one timeframe would carry over exactly and immediately to the other timeframes, as soon as the minimum number of candles required are reached.

Error Description:

As I move one candle at a time, it should in theory take exactly:

5 moves of the 1M to begin the movement of the 5M candle window

15 moves of the 1M to begin the movement of the 15M candle window

60 moves...

However, we can see in the second image that the programmer of this indicator apparently placed the common starting location not at the beginning of the window with the first candle but rather somewhere in the middle.

Holding Shift+12, from the weekend position of the charts (when the markets are closed) it takes not 5 moves of the 1 minute candles, but instead over 130 times (over 2 hours of chart time).  I did not try to test how many 1M candles it would take to begin to move the M15, but I did test the H1. It takes 25 fifteen minute candles (over 6 hours) to pass by before the one hour candle window starts to move.

The problem I have is this. How can I backtest if I don't know which matching candle is which, where do they align?  Again, the 1 minute and 5 minute should be tight, with only 5 keystrokes required.

I realize that once the charts are open, the sync does occur on the righthand edge, but why not start it that way from the beginning so that back-testing can be accurately measured?  

I hope that the designer will change this in the programming and offer us an update.

Thanks for reading my comments.

After 130 1M (one minute) candles have cycled through, the 5M has yet to move at all (see image below).

This "zoomed-in look" is not helpful to me because it eliminates other factors on the chart that I need to be able to see.

I failed to make clear that my 2nd request would be to have a way for the buyer of this product toggle on or off an active (for lack of a better word) candles feature that shows the user which exact candles are in sync in the windows being displayed, with the option. Perhaps the developer can come up with a better idea, but for the sake of this entry, it might be easiest for the programmer to code the 2nd candle from the right on the smallest timeframe is the active candle. 

It would prove more difficult I believe to designate the full range of candles (i.e., 15 one minute candles would be highlighted somehow to compare it to the corresponding 15M candle), because with more than one timeframe, which range would be shown - the 60M or the 15M or the 240M, etc.

Good news - not quite perfect but certainly better.  When I choose "false" for the sync setting to the right, the number is off by far less.

Instead of 130+ moves of the M1 to make the M5 move, it drops down significantly to only 13 one minute candles moving before an 5M candle moves.

Hello Michael. Thanks for using my program.

maybe you should try not to click the two button on the picture show.

Please remember the first chart is your control chart, do not add this sync indicator to it.

And the setting  "true: left synchronized / false: right synchronized " , true is left sync, false is right sync.

left sync means that the far left of the chart timescale is synced.  It makes the time of the leftmost candlestick on the chart consistent.

right sync means that the far right of the chart timescale is synced. It makes the time of the rightmost candlestick on the chart consistent.

But...... The limitations of the MetaTrader software make it impossible for the number of bars displayed on the chart to be less than its specified number. For example, you can't see only 1~2 bars on a chart.

So when you show the latest data, it exact sync, but MetaTrader has a minimum bar limit. 

You can test how the software works in the past.

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In addition, my design is to make the software interface clean and simple, and the user usually remembers how to set it up.

Most importantly, I wanted the software not to conflict with other software, so I didn't set the controls on the interface. Because some software is not well designed, their controls will affect each other.

Thank you for your reply.  I was already aware of each of your suggestions, but thank you for them and for describing the limitations and reasons for the way you coded the indicator.

I believe I can take the time to mark each targeted candle of interest in a zoomed-in window myself and then zoom out. 

This method, though more crude than I had hoped, will work for the back-testing I need.  I like the indicator a lot, especially when the markets are live. It's extremely helpful and well worth the $30. Cheers.