A setting you changed did not apply everywhere in Sierra Chart

What is causing it

Many Sierra Chart settings are per chart or per chartbook, not global. Only settings under Global Settings apply across the platform.

Why this happens

The chartbook is the unit of saved state. It holds the charts, their studies, their settings and their layout, which is what makes chartbooks portable and reusable. The trade-off is that a change inside one chartbook has no effect on another.

This design is also why advice found online frequently does not work first time. The person giving it may be describing a global setting while you are looking at a chart setting, or the reverse.

The fix, step by step

1. Work out which level the setting belongs to. Anything reached through Global Settings applies platform-wide, while chart settings and study settings apply only to that chart.
2. If you want a change across several charts in a chartbook, apply it to each chart, or use the platform's facility for copying settings or studies between charts.
3. Save the chartbook after making changes, because unsaved chart-level changes are lost when it closes.
4. If you maintain several chartbooks, expect to repeat chart-level changes in each one, since they do not share chart settings.
5. Build a chartbook you are happy with and reuse it as a starting point rather than reconfiguring from scratch each time.

How to confirm it is fixed

Open a second chartbook and confirm the setting behaves as you expect, which tells you whether it was global or local.

Stopping it happening again

Learn which of your regular settings are global and which are per chart, and keep a master chartbook you copy from.