Chart Utilities

AMT Previous Day OHLC

Prior day open, high, low, close, and midpoint as reference levels

Draws the previous trading day's open, high, low, close, and midpoint as horizontal reference lines across the current session. Supports two modes: reference a separate daily chart for settlement prices, or compute levels automatically from the current chart's session boundaries.

AMT Previous Day OHLC on a Sierra Chart

The Concept

Yesterday's high, low, and close are among the most watched levels in intraday trading. They represent the prior session's value boundaries and often act as support, resistance, or pivot zones. This study automatically plots these levels so you never have to manually draw them or look up yesterday's range.

How to Read It

Five reference levels are drawn as dashed horizontal lines across the current session.

  • Prev High (green dotted) — prior day's high, a key resistance level
  • Prev Low (red dotted) — prior day's low, a key support level
  • Prev Close (gold) — the settlement or closing price, often a magnet for early-session price
  • Prev Open (white) — the prior day's opening price
  • Prev Mid (cyan dotted) — midpoint of the prior day's range, represents the center of value

Practical Tips

For futures, referencing a separate daily chart gives you accurate settlement prices. Set the 'Daily Chart #' input to the chart number of a daily chart with the same symbol. If left at 0, levels are computed from the current chart's intraday session boundaries, which works well for most use cases.

Input & Settings

1Daily Chart #

Chart number of a daily reference chart for settlement prices. Set to 0 to compute levels from the current chart's session boundaries. Default: 0.

Subgraphs

1Prev Open

Default: Dash. The previous day's opening price, displayed as a white dashed line.

2Prev High

Default: Dash (dotted). The previous day's high price, displayed as a green dotted line.

3Prev Low

Default: Dash (dotted). The previous day's low price, displayed as a red dotted line.

4Prev Close

Default: Dash. The previous day's close/settlement price, displayed as a gold dashed line.

5Prev Mid

Default: Dash (dotted). The midpoint of the previous day's range, displayed as a cyan dotted line.

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