4 hour timeframe (Resolution)

check the help for consolidators and the sample algso provided by the quantconnect team.

you have to use hour data with consolidator to scale it to 4 hour bars. check the examples!! and bootcamp

Michael Manus thanks for your reply,

I tried the example but it is still doing trades on hours like 3/17..etc and it is supposed to make trades only on 0/4/8/12/16/20

share some code maybe.

take the very basic spy consolidation example:

1) change the resolution to hour.

without providing resolution infos Minute is default ( AddSecurity(SecurityType.Equity, "SPY", Resolution.Hour); )

2) Use the  thirtyMinuteConsolidator  and change it to 4 hours ( TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30) -> TimeSpan.FromHours(4) )! so that the  ThirtyMinuteBarHandler-method gets called every 4th hour with a 4 hour candle

YOUR CODE IS STILL IN THE ONDATA METHOD? .......

Michael Manus Yes i still have my code inside ONDATA, and i'm not using TradeBars, i'm using custom data (i read my data from CSV or dropbox).

What am i supposed to use instead of TradeBarConsolidator since i'm using custom data not tradebars?

Michael Manus I fixed the issue but when i close a trade using SL or TP, it closes them on hourly basis not 4, for example it used to close trades on 3/15..etc which is wrong

maybe you have to consolidate it from minute resolution to hourly and than to 4 hours....so you can access it every minute if you need it....i dont know what your plans are.

example of this

The point is that i don't use AddForex, AddEquity..etc because i use custom data and OnData looks like this

OnData(MyCustomDataClass data)

{

}

so it's giving me an error when i use TradeBarConsolidator or QuoteBarConsolidator

That's the exception i'm getting when i use QuoteBarConsolidator (since i'm using custom Forex data):

System.ArgumentException: Type mismatch found between consolidator and symbol. Symbol: AUDUSD does not support input type: QuoteBar. Supported types: MyCustomDataClass.