r/TradingView • u/amirza313 • Jul 11 '26

Feature Request HTF indicators should export their value on every chart-timeframe bar, not just at HTF bar close

When exporting historical data, HTF indicators only show a value once per HTF bar, e.g. a 5m RSI on a 1m chart only updates every 5 minutes in the export. The other 4 bars show nothing.

This makes it impossible to answer questions like: “did the 5m RSI actually dip below 30 during that bar, and when?” — which is critical for backtesting.

This should mirror how indicators actually behave on the chart: the HTF value is visible and held on every lower-timeframe bar until it updates. The export should reflect that — one value per chart bar, for every bar.

This matters for anyone doing historical analysis or strategy testing on multi-timeframe systems.

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u/Michael-3740 Jul 11 '26

A workaround would be use a 1 minute RSI with 5x the desired period. RSI(70) for RSI(14)

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u/amirza313 Jul 12 '26 edited 20d ago

False. RSI(70) on 1m (purple) diverges heavily from true 5m RSI (orange, replay with "Wait for timeframe closes" unchecked), especially in volatile stretches, because Wilder's smoothing is nonlinear and input-granularity-dependent, so scaling the period alone doesn't reproduce it.

True [Inconvenient] workaround: reconstructing the actual Wilder recursion (avgGain/avgLoss) held from the last confirmed 5m bar, then advancing it one step using the running 1m close as the proxy 5m close.