What it does
Chart Navigator solves a friction point every Sierra Chart power user knows well: keeping multiple charts of the same instrument (different timeframes, different chart types, or different sessions) aligned to the same point in time. Manually scrolling each chart to the right bar wastes seconds on every lookback, and those seconds compound across a trading session.
Chart Navigator turns multi-chart alignment into a single button press. Click once, and every chart in your chartbook scrolls to the bar position where your cursor was last located. Click another button, and every chart jumps back to the latest bar. No scripting, no chartbook reloads, no per-chart scrolling.
Key features
- Sync all charts to the cursor bar: press the "Go To DateTime" ACS button and every chart in the chartbook scrolls to the bar where your cursor was last located, so you can review the same moment across a 1-minute, 5-minute, and daily chart at once.
- Jump to the latest bar: press the "Go To End" ACS button and every chart jumps to the most recent bar, useful for snapping back to live data after reviewing historical context.
- Cross-chart communication via shared DLL state: the study uses native ACSIL shared memory between chart instances, so coordination happens in-process with no file I/O, no polling, and no observable delay.
- Two fully configurable ACS button assignments: bind the navigation buttons to any of Sierra Chart's ACS button slots so they fit your existing toolbar layout.
- Instant response: the navigation event is read by every chart on the same tick, with no polling loop or wait state.
How it works
After purchase the study is added to your Sierra Chart account automatically. Restart Sierra Chart, then add the study to each chart you want to sync via Analysis → Studies → Add Custom Study → Chart Navigator. Assign the two ACS button slots in the study settings, then add the matching button slots to your Control Bar.
At runtime, when you press the "Go To DateTime" button on any chart, Chart Navigator captures the cursor bar's datetime and writes it to a shared DLL-level state. Every other chart running the study reads that datetime on its next ACSIL pass and scrolls to the bar that matches. The same mechanism powers the "Go To End" button, which broadcasts a "jump to latest" signal to every chart.
Because the coordination happens through shared memory inside the DLL, there is no external configuration, no JSON file to maintain, and nothing to clean up when you close charts.
Who it's for
- Multi-timeframe day traders working ES, NQ, or any liquid futures on a 1-minute execution chart plus a 15-minute and daily context chart: align all three to the same bar in one click instead of scrolling each one manually.
- Order flow traders who keep a footprint chart, a time-based chart, and a market profile open side by side: Chart Navigator keeps the three in sync as you walk back through a session.
- Replay and review workflows: when reviewing trades after the close, jumping all charts to the entry bar of a trade takes one click instead of three.
- Prop firm traders (Apex, Topstep, MyFundedFutures) running a layout per instrument: sync your full chartbook to the same moment when reviewing a setup with a coach or in a journal session.
Compatibility & requirements
- Requires Sierra Chart with ACSIL custom study support
- Windows desktop platform
- Compatible with any chart type and any instrument
- No external dependencies: runs as a native Sierra Chart custom study
- Automatic activation on your Sierra Chart account after purchase; no DLL download or manual installation required
- Lifetime updates included
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