This absolutely must be fixed. It’s 2025, yet ProRealTime still enforces outdated and highly restrictive rules around timeframe compatibility. These limitations are not just inconvenient — they actively hinder the performance and reliability of trading systems, especially those built on higher timeframes like 4 hours.
The inability to mix timeframes freely — for example, running a 4-hour system while managing stop-loss or breakeven logic on a 1-minute timeframe — is a major flaw. It makes risk management tools like breakeven and trailing stop-loss nearly useless in practical terms.
Consider this: a position might gain over 1,000 points during a 4-hour candle, but if the trailing stop is only allowed to update every 4 hours, that gain can vanish completely before the next update. This isn’t just inefficient — it’s unacceptable in real trading environments where precision and timely execution are critical.
There’s a simple and obvious solution: allow systems to maintain their primary logic on a higher timeframe while managing stop-loss and breakeven mechanisms on a faster one. Yet ProRealTime’s current requirement that timeframes be multiplicative blocks this entirely. This restriction severely handicaps anyone building serious trading systems and effectively punishes users for using higher timeframes.
This is not a small issue — it is a fundamental design flaw that is costing traders real opportunities and exposing them to avoidable risk. It needs to be addressed with urgency.
