Bars discrepancy between different timeframes

[haimcn]

I took a random bar (starting 11:00 CST today) in 15 minutes NQ and marked its high and low, then I changed to 5 minutes and marked expected to see the line matches to the high and low of the first 3 bars starting at 11 but it didn’t, so I marked this too and changed to 1 minute, and again it doesn’t match either.
Am I missing anything? Can you please explain this discrepancy?

In the attached screenshots, the blue line is on 15 minutes, the purple on 5 and the yellow on 1.

Thanks,
Haim

[fc77]

“expected to see the line matches to the high and low of the first 3 bars starting at 11”

This is incorrect. Not “starting”, but “ending”.

In NT, bar timestamps correspond to the time the bar closed.

So your 5 min bar with timestamp of 11:00 will include price action between 10:55:01 to 11:00:00.

Your 15 min bar with timestamp of 11:00 will include price action between 10:45:01 to 11:00:00.

Do things make more sense with this info?

[haimcn]

Thanks!
It makes much more sense.