Create custom time intervals on Punch charts

Add your own chart timeframes in minutes, hours or days on Punch, beyond the standard presets, and pin them to the timeframe bar.

Written By Archit Sunat

Last updated 3 days ago

If your strategy needs a timeframe Punch doesn't offer as a preset — like 7m, 90m, 3H or 2D — you can build your own. Custom intervals support minutes, hours and days, and once saved they sit alongside the presets on your timeframe bar.

Add a custom interval

  1. Open the time interval picker on your chart.

  2. Choose + Custom — it sits at the bottom of the dropdown on desktop, and as a bottom-sheet action on mobile.

  3. Enter a whole number and pick a unit: Minutes, Hours or Days.

  4. Tap Add. The interval is saved and pinned to your timeframe bar.

The Add button stays disabled until your entry is valid, so you always know when an interval is ready to save.

Allowed values

Each unit has a maximum based on how Indian markets trade. An NSE/BSE session is exactly 375 minutes long (9:15 AM to 3:30 PM), which sets the ceilings below.

Unit

Minimum

Maximum

Minutes

1

375

Hours

1

7

Days

1

30

NOTE : Only whole numbers are accepted — values like 1.5H or 2.5m are not allowed.

Avoiding duplicates

Before saving, Punch checks your interval against both the standard presets and your existing custom intervals. If it already exists, you'll see "This interval already exists in your list." and Add stays disabled until you change the value.

Saving, pinning and removing

  • Custom intervals appear as buttons in the timeframe bar, with a subtle visual marker so you can tell them apart from the presets.

  • You can pin up to 10 custom intervals at once. Trying to add an 11th prompts you to remove one first.

  • Custom intervals are saved to your account and sync across your devices.

  • To remove one, long-press it on mobile or hover on desktop to reveal the Remove option. Removing an interval doesn't change your chart — it stays on its current timeframe, and the button just disappears.

Where custom intervals work

Custom intervals work with all chart types and all indicators, including EMAs, MACD, RSI, VWAP and Bollinger Bands. They also work with synced panes — if two panes are linked by interval, both update when one switches to a custom interval — and they can be saved in indicator templates.

Things to keep in mind

  • Equities and derivatives only. Custom intervals are available for NSE/BSE equities and derivatives. The + Custom option is hidden or disabled for Commodities or Crypto. If you're on a custom interval and switch to a commodity, the chart falls back to the default 5m.

  • A partial last candle is normal. An interval that doesn't divide evenly into the session — say 373 minutes — produces one 373-minute candle and a short final candle, the same way 4H candles behave.

  • Low candle counts on large day intervals are expected. A 30D interval on a chart with only 90 days of data shows about three candles. That's valid, not an error.

  • The same custom list applies across all your equity symbols — intervals aren't set per symbol.