How do you identify the first bar of the day for use in an indicator? I cannot locate info on this.

Regards

There isn't currently a way to identify the first bar of the day for intraday time frames.  You could identify the open of the first bar which is the open for the day, but not the high, low or close.

Well---that is rather restrictive for making intraday indicators. Is there a way to implement a bar counter so that previous bars can be numbered back from this bar count?

You can add a Custom PCF Cumulative Indicator with the following settings:

- Period: 1
- Average Type: Simple
- Up Condition: C > C - 1
- Down Condition: C < C - 1
- Value to Add/Subtract: 1

You can click the period key on your keyboard twice to bring up the pointer mode data box to display this count in a box on your chart. Selecting the period key a third time will exit point mode.

Note that this number will count from the oldest data to the newest data (left to right). There is no way to number the bars from the newest data to the oldest data (right to left) or automatically include this count in another formula.

Thanks for the info.

From Stockguy response, What is the syntax for open of the day which can be used throughout the day?

O (the letter O)