Begin / End of Bar - Custom Bars

I have a couple of questions regarding bars.

1.) Is it possible to use the beginning time of the bar as the bar time in the chart? So if the session starts at 8 o'clock it would be the 8 o'clock bar and not the 9 o'clock bar on an hourly chart. On my other platform this setting is standard (although I can switch). Seems to me much more natural and logical. I may not see the wood for the trees but I can't find a setting option in MC.

2.) Is it possible to use/program custom bar types (e.g. better-renko, median-renko, Kasebars, etc.)? I have done this on another platform and I wonder if it is possible in MC.Net. I don't need it right now, but if it is not possible I will sure open a feature request in the project management.

Cheers
KaBo

Hmm, tough questions or is it inappropriate to say that I used different programs before MC?!
Should be easy to answer for anyone who worked with it longer!
A simple
1.) No / Yes
2.) No / Yes
would do ?! Thanks!

Perhaps my inexperienced answer is better than nothing :
1) I've always seen bars referenced by their ending time in MC, without exception. It'd be a pleasant surprise to find out there is another way to do it.
2a) I know of no way to emulate the BetterRenko or such -- there is a "standard" Renko, where you can set price size by absolute or percentage, and how frequently to evaluate the price (close), but nothing which says you wish brick prices to overlap by x%, and add wicks, etc.
2b) That being said, there is nothing stopping you from custom programming a BetterRenko with the behavior you've seen before -- you just need to know how to do custom drawing in your indicator. I've neither tried to do custom drawing nor plots in a Renko-bar system, so I'm not sure the steps you'd take.

Sorry for lack of details -- this is why I held off from answering before -- I cannot really add much value. However, since you asked for someone to respond, and I've been in that position before -- even having someone respond that they're reading your post and do care is nice.

Good luck!

Jeff

Hello KaBo,

1) MultiCharts shows closing time as timestamps of bars, there is no option to show opening time of bars.

2) Please refer to the following posts:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45405#p98521
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=46489&p=104360#p104360

You can also vote for MC-1334 - Better Renko - Mean Renko - Renko Hybrid - Own bar types.