Use Market Property when you want your bot to read price data from the chart or market, such as the current bid/ask price, the highest price in a candle range, or the lowest price during a specific time range.

This is useful when building breakout logic, session high/low rules, price comparisons, or strategies that need to reference recent candles.

In a Trade Rule Block, the Market Property data type lets you fetch market-related values and compare them against another value.

For example, you can use it to check:

When you select Market Property, you can choose properties such as:

The current ask price from your broker.

The current bid price from your broker.

The midpoint between bid and ask.

This can be useful when you do not want to use only bid or ask price in your logic.

This is one of the most important Market Property options.

Use Highest Price in Candle Period or Lowest Price in Candle Period when you want to look back over a specific candle range and fetch the highest or lowest price inside that range.

Also known as:

When you select Highest Price in Candle Period or Lowest Price in Candle Period, you need to define a candle range.

You do this with:

The candle where the lookback range starts.

This is usually the candle closest to the current price within your selected range.

The candle where the lookback range ends.

This number should be higher than the Start Candle ID, because it looks further back to the left on the chart.

Imagine you select:

The bot now looks at the candle range from Candle ID 1 to Candle ID 5.

Within that range, it searches for the highest price.

The result is then used as a value in your trade rule.

For example:

This means the bot checks whether the current price is above the highest price found in that selected candle range.

After selecting a candle-period property, you can choose what value should be returned.

Depending on the property, you may see options such as:

For most trading rules using Highest Price or Lowest Price, you usually want to select:

That means the bot returns the actual price level of the highest or lowest point inside the selected candle range.

Example:

If the highest price between Candle ID 1 and Candle ID 5 is 1.08650, then the Market Property returns:

This value can then be compared against another value in your Trade Rule Block.

You can use the same logic for lows.

Example setup:

The bot looks back from Candle ID 1 to Candle ID 10 and returns the lowest price found inside that range.

This is useful for logic such as:

This could be used for a downside breakout condition.

Use Highest Price in Time Period or Lowest Price in Time Period when you want to find the highest or lowest price during a specific time window.

This is useful for session-based strategies, for example:

You can choose which time source should be used.

Uses your broker’s server time.

Uses the time shown on the chart.

Uses the time from your computer, laptop, or VPS.

Important: make sure the selected time source matches the logic of your strategy. If your strategy is based on broker server time, use Server Time.

For time-period properties, you need to define the start and end of the time range.

Depending on your screen size and block setup, some fields may appear further down in the settings panel.

If you do not see fields such as Start Range, End Range, or time inputs immediately, scroll down inside the block settings panel.

This is a common point users miss.

The Day Offset lets you select how many days back the time range should apply.

Example:

Means today.

Means yesterday.

Means 5 days ago.

Example setup:

The bot checks the selected time range and returns the highest price found between 08:00 and 10:00.

Some Market Property values can be adjusted after they are fetched.

You can use Adjust to:

Example:

You fetch the highest price in the last 5 candles, then subtract a small value from it.

This can be useful when creating buffer zones, breakout thresholds, or slightly adjusted price levels.

Market Property is useful for:

The End Candle ID should normally be higher than the Start Candle ID because it looks further back on the chart.

Example:

Good.

Usually incorrect.

If you want the actual high or low price, select:

Do not select Time Value unless you specifically want the time when that high or low happened.

Some options may appear lower in the block settings panel.

If you are looking for fields such as:

Scroll down inside the settings panel.

If your broker server time differs from your local time, your time-period logic may behave differently than expected.

For most broker-based strategy logic, Server Time is usually the safest option.