Hi,

I have some ideas which may help to you..

- Use Chartbooks (settings of multiple chart windows) and StudyCollections (studies/indicator setting for one chart). You may then change between them whenever you wish.

- You can quickly change study parameters this way: Chart Studies - Sierra Chart

- You may find interesting the Study/Price Overlay study to copy indicator lines to another chart.

- You can save your current settings as default for a study if you check Save these settings as the default on the very bottom of the study settings dialog window.

- You can set time zone in Global Settings / Data/Trade service settings, as well on a per chart basis in Chart Settings / Advanced settings tab. Also you can set the time zone of a specific market in Global Settings / Symbol Settings, find the symbol then Intraday tab. When Apply Intraday settings on intraday charts is checked (lower left) this will overwrite your other settings.. if not else in a manner of what part of a day is shown on the chart.

I hope these help

Include a fully supported Renko chart type implementation. I know of no platform the offers FULL support of Renko charting.

Support probably hates me by now but I'd add options tables. Options are such an integral part of trading it really precludes Sierra Charts from being a top trading platform.

need Lifetime license)))

NStrade 

need Lifetime license)))

Definitely would be a great addition to Sierra although they will never do it in my own personal opinion. The subscription model is a stronger business model these days and also sustains continued development and improvement.......

This said, I truly believe that Sierra is probably the best platform out there and the developers are incredibly responsive but I've started to look elsewhere.

Here are my main issues with Sierra:

- Lack of options tables, even simple options tables. I find it very hard to believe that anyone who trades seriously doesn't utilize options, even just at times, as part of their trading strategy. Along these lines, I don't think you can have a modern professional generalized trading platform without options tables.

- Organized data feed. The team at Sierra has done an incredible job with the TTFix execution route and Denali. I am by no means a professional trader but I am quite type A and been in this game a while. I feel at this point I've done a fair amount of research on the data and platform issue out there for the retail trader. The Denali feed is definitely second to none and they have put a ton of work into it. The issue I have is that Denali is very much a work in progress. As of now, if you are trading equities, options and futures, you need to subscribe to both the Denali and the Sierra real time exchange feeds. They are compensating for this inconvenience by giving a discount on the Sierra real time feed if you subscribe to both Denali and Sierra but still; it feels disorganized and quite pieced together. Again, they are working on it, know it's an issue, but it is a current glaring issue.

Clearly, I know nothing of their business model or organizational structure but it does seem that the Sierra Charts group could do more to hire people to who can push along certain large idea projects.....again, I have no personal experience with doing something like this but just my take as an outsider.

Sierra Charts is incredibly powerful and customizable. It also generally has a horrible menu and interface which doesn't make it immediately apparent just how powerful it is, this can definitely be a turn off at first if you're coming from a more UI friendly platform like NinjaTrader or TradeStation

Aside from hiring a UX Designer to improve the accessibility of the platform, and overhauling the UI, which are both huge and expenseive tasks; something relatively simple to include would be some advanced Chart Book examples tailored to specific styles of trading. This would go a long way of showcasing what Sierra Charts can do and give clients an idea of how they can customize their setup.

i wish their HLC bars could expand and contract in width as you zoom in and out like other platforms

SierraChart is a quality, feature rich software with perpetual efficient & quick improvements by the developpers, plus great support despite the tone (that I personally appreciate, to the point). If only the outdated and cumbersome UI could be updated, it would be perfect...

It's a great platform. They are constantly making improvements and will take suggestions from their customers.

Big Mike 

Please share what you would do differently with Sierra Chart and why. Mike

Hi Mike,

I’d like to see 2 minute charts! 5 minute charts can move pretty far before you see an entry signal and 1 minute charts don’t allow enough read time! I know I’m unusual!