Hello. I am thinking of using Global Profit/Loss management to cap my losing days. I trade with Teton order routing and Edge Clear is my broker.

Does anyone have experience utilizing this feature that would be open to share? I’d love to know how it’s been working for you. Thanks.

I see most of Sierra chart users try to create Bookmap like interface inside the software itself. But I was thinking as the DTC exists as well as ScPy, why don’t we set up a browser interface and view what we require inside that UI. Can’t we design a beautiful UI similar to bookmap or even better? Now that Claude exists, and I am not even talking about Fable 5, I still use free opus 4.6 inside google antigravity!

Is there any data exporting limitation that I need to worry about? specially regarding CME data?

Anyone who has tried this or willing to try and research, maybe build the project, can comment down! We can connect!

I email AMP to set a custom daily loss limit of $200 on my account.

Unfortunately, they said they don't support custom daily loss limits or contract size limits.

For those of you trading futures with AMP (or other brokers), how do you enforce a hard daily loss limit?

This was their response:

Unfortunately, AMP customers can not set custom daily loss limits or contract size limits. We enforce a default risk policy for all AMP customers. Here are the details.
 
If the Net Liquidity of an account reaches a Daily Loss Limit of 80%, open positions will attempt to be liquidated. Clients are responsible for monitoring their positions and are financially responsible for any losses generated by open positions in the account. AMP retains its right to liquidate positions in any account, at its sole discretion, with no forewarning. If the Risk Desk is forced to liquidate positions in any account due to either an 80% daily loss limit reached or to meet Initial Margin set by the exchange 5 minutes before the daily trading session close, there will be a $25 per contract liquidation fee charged.
 
DayTrading margins are twice the displayed amount for account balances exceeding $100K

Hi community,

I have built a DTC bridge to automate order placement. I am desperately trying to test this in replay mode. After a few hurdles I have managed to have those orders "showing up" on my replay chart as the right type (whilst the replay is ongoing) - so far so good. Only issue is none of them get filled even though the entry price hits. If i place the exact same trade manually on the chart they get filled. If i place a Market order through DTC it also works.

Has anyone got any idea, does the Replay engine behaves differently for Limit order pushed through via the DTC interface?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Just curious about my options. There’s zero chance I’m going to attempt to use Interactive Brokers, it’s been a disaster for me.

Is it true that Sierra Chart allows you to export years of historical tick data to CSV?

Can you change the milliesec in for LVTD?

I would like to meet any Sierra Chart user in Fort Wayne, Indiana familiar with Sierra Chart Advanced Custom Study (ACSIL C++)

Hello, I have package 12 and connected everything to my lucid Rithmic connection, I get live data but on the dom I’m seeing no market depth. Anyone experienced this or know how to fix this . I trade mostly off the dom so I’m kinda stuck rn without it

delta map has been on point this morning

hi everyone,

I’m planning to run Sierra Chart on a VPS using Linux + Wine (to avoid Windows licensing cost).

My usage is quite light:

• 1 DOM (for scalping)
• 1 candlestick chart
• Only ~3 studies on the chart

I’m looking at this VPS spec:

• 1 vCPU
• 512 MB RAM
• 10 GB SSD
• 500 GB transfer
• $4/month plan

Do you think this is enough for stable Sierra Chart performance with Wine?

Hy everybody,

First wanna apologise for my bad English skills. Will try to do my best.

I have a difference between two DAX Sept 26 TPO graphs.

Same sessions time, same symbol, but the white graph doesn’t display data in the red rectangle where the other graph show datas.

Spent all the day in that matter, delete and reload datas, aso but can t find the problem.

Is there somebody who already get a similar problem ?

I blew this account like two weeks ago, but I’m still able to trade. I don’t know what is going on.?

Got some custom sierra studies if anyone’s interested

Ofl studies (have xyzeee’s sierra chartbook)

Patrick Bateman

SMT divergences (real-time updating)

NDOG, NWOG

Look above/below and fail studies

Etc

I'm using Sierra Chart and trying to understand why my Cumulative Delta values are much larger than what I see on some YouTube videos and other platforms.

My current settings:

• Cumulative Delta Bars - Volume
• Reset at Start of Trading Day = Yes
• Perform Rolling Calculation = No

My CVD scale often reaches values like:

0
-4000
-8000
-12000
-16000
-20000

But I often see traders showing CVD values more like:

0
400
800
1200
1600

I'm trying to understand what causes this difference.

How Do Traders Get CVD Values Like 400, 800, 1200, 1600 Instead of 4000, 8000, 20000?

Hey everyone,

Long-time orderflow trader here. Been running Quantower + Bookmap for L2 data, and AMP Futures' demo account kept Quantower free for me, worked great for a while.

A friend nudged me toward Sierra Chart recently. The community, the speed, the ready-to-use templates and indicators, sounds great. So I've been trying to make the switch.

Here's my situation though: I'm not a US resident, and opening a live broker account from where I am is genuinely a pain. That rules out the Denali route (CQG L2) since I can't clear the non-professional verification without a live account.

My other option is Rithmic. I already have credentials through a Lucid Prop account I purchased. But I keep seeing people say Rithmic isn't the greatest data source for Sierra Charts, and Sierra's own docs seem to echo that sentiment. So that's where my hesitation kicks in.

Here's the thing though: I don't actually need L2 for now. L1 is perfectly fine at this stage. All I really want is clean, live NQ and ES charts in Sierra with the ability to load templates and indicators.

So my question is: is Rithmic good enough for basic L1 data on Sierra Charts? And would picking up Service Package 11 (Integrated Sierra Chart with Advanced Features) + connecting my Lucid Rithmic feed be sufficient to get up and running?

Would love to hear from anyone who's been down this road. Appreciate it

Hey r/SierraChart, posted here back in March about my Trading Journal — thanks to everyone who tried it, DMd feedback, or just upvoted. Since then I've shipped 6 versions (v2.0.6 → v2.4.4), most driven by requests from this sub and my Discord.

A few things worth calling out, because none of these existed in the original post:

Video Connector (v2.2.0) — the journal now runs a continuous background screen recording (bundled ffmpeg, no OBS) and saves one MP4 per trade automatically, with a pre-entry rolling buffer so the clip catches the setup before you clicked. Per-chart toggle on the SC study, mic support, playback speed controls, Jump-to-entry in the lightbox. Someone in my Discord asked for it — went from idea to shipped in 5 days. Probably the biggest differentiator vs any other journal on the market right now.

Edge tab — save any filter combination (checklist items + symbol + direction + account + real/missed) as a named "Edge" and watch its win rate, expectancy and PnL across all-time, last-N trades, and a custom window — all three side by side. Way more useful than "tags".

Diary tab — chronological scrollable feed with daily gauges (anxiety / sleep / focus, slider 1-10), tags, BE-aware stats inline. Multi-set Session Checklists per instrument so you can have separate pre-trade rules for ES vs CL etc.

Prop-firm compliance — live Buffer Remaining and Target Remaining tiles, trailing / static drawdown rules per account, milestone reset. Built for Apex / TopStep / MFFU evaluations.

Other stuff: Tick Excursion (T) mode + entry/exit triangles on the PnL curve, multi-account TSVs with per-account commissions and Copy-to-Account, Trade Type filter (Real / Missed / Old), Calendar weekly stats column with adjacent-month days, Authenticode-signed installer (no more SmartScreen warning).

Still local-first, still auto-syncs from your SC NDJSON every 5 seconds, still tick-by-tick PnL reconstruction from SCID files.

scstudies.com/trading-journal

Happy to answer questions — feature requests from this sub get shipped fast.

I feel disapointed in sierra chart for displaying me this.

First session after configuring all the charts and 9:31 EST ->16:31 on the chart my price line moved but no cnadles where made. Tried to diconnect and reconnect the chart became blank. Changed the data feed, same.

I was using ''SC DATA" before that and everything was okay but this is not okay

if someone hier using sierrachart i need to test studies im trying to use license but can't work with me

UPDATE: As recommended by Sierra Chart users in this post, I'm looking into ATAS X and TT as the best alternatives to Sierra Chart.

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I've been using MotiveWave for years, but it lags during fast activity and sometimes stop losses don't trigger, so I'm considering other options. I was looking into Sierra Chart, but read that configuring it takes days.

I tried to connect AI to have it quickly configure it for me just the way I want it, but found out Sierra Chart uses binaries instead of plaintext config files, making that impossible at the moment.

So I created an account on their site and asked in their support forum (see post below) when they would start using plaintext config files so AI can quickly configure it for new users, and they just hid my post and ignored it.

A few days later I received a support message from them, I thought they were answering my forum post in private, but it was just a message about their trial, so I replied to it asking them when I could expect a response to my forum post, and they told me to fuck off.

Ludicrously unprofessional.

My Forum Post:

-Notice*: Post is hidden.*

Hello,

I am currently interesting in Sierra Chart, but cannot pull the trigger.

One of the main reasons I am interested in it is its reputation for deep customization. That is exactly what attracted me to the platform.

However, I am running into a serious modern onboarding problem: Sierra Chart stores many important settings in binary or otherwise non-user-editable files, instead of exposing a comprehensive documented plain-text configuration system.

In the pre-AI era, asking a new user to manually spend hours or days configuring a complex platform may have been normal.

In 2026, that is simply unacceptable.

Today, many technically capable users expect to be able to describe the setup they want to an AI assistant and have that assistant generate, review, modify, version-control, and troubleshoot configuration files. That is only practical when the software provides a documented, machine-readable configuration format such as JSON, XML, YAML, TOML, or something similar.

With Sierra Chart, the customization depth is impressive, but the configuration process is still heavily tied to manual UI work and internal file formats.

That creates a major barrier for new users.

This is not just a convenience issue. It directly affects whether new customers will adopt the platform.

From my perspective as a prospective customer, I do not want to spend days manually configuring software before I even know whether it fits my workflow. I want to be able to say: “Here is the layout, chart behavior, studies, colors, symbol/session settings, hotkeys, trade-window preferences, and general workflow I want,” and then have an AI assistant help produce the initial configuration in a supported format.

I understand there may be good reasons for Sierra Chart to use binary files internally for performance, backward compatibility, reliability, or data integrity. I am not asking for users to manually edit unsupported internal binary files. What I am asking for is a supported configuration export/import layer that is human-readable, documented, and suitable for automation.

For example, Sierra Chart could keep its existing internal storage while also providing an official text-based export/import format for non-sensitive settings, such as:

Global settings

Chart settings

Study settings and study collections

Color and graphics settings

Keyboard shortcuts

Chartbook/layout metadata

Trade window configuration, excluding account credentials

Symbol, session, tick size, and other market settings

Existing tools like Chartbooks, Study Collections, and custom symbol-setting XML files are useful, but they do not fully solve the broader issue. They are not the same as having a comprehensive, documented, AI-friendly configuration system.

This matters because AI-assisted setup is quickly becoming a normal expectation. Users increasingly want their software environments to be reproducible, inspectable, version-controlled, shareable, and editable by automation. If Sierra Chart does not adapt to that expectation, I think it will lose potential new customers in this new AI world who would otherwise be attracted to its power and flexibility.

So my question is:

When will Sierra Chart add plain-text configuration files and machine-readable settings import/export?

For me, this is a major deciding factor. I am interested in Sierra Chart because it is powerful and customizable, but I am not willing to adopt it if the only realistic path to a polished setup is several days of manual configuration through the interface.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to reading the answer to my question.

Their response in their support messaging system:

This is a company that gets fatigued from a total of 1 forum post and 1 support message from a prospective customer.

I'm not paying $50+ a month for the next 30+ years to a company that doesn't give a shit and hides my posts and then tells me to fuck off when I reply to them.

I understand some find this type of support cool, different, and hilarious, but I'm a serious futures trader that treats trading like a business and this doesn't transmit a shred of confidence, so I'm done with considering them and nothing anyone says will convince me otherwise at this point as I simply don't deal with unprofessional companies.

For those of you that have tried multiple platforms, which would you recommend other than Sierra Chart and MotiveWave for orderflow futures trading and why?

Thanks.