“You are reading local data, not the live market”: the Local data badge

What you see

A blue “Local data” badge in the chart toolbar and a notice: “No broker is connected, so the chart opened on the history already downloaded to this machine. It scrolls, zooms and computes exactly as usual — it simply does not advance.” It states how far the data goes (“Local data goes up to {date} at {time} ({zone}).”), the age of the last cached bar and the number of bars cached on the timeframe, then: “This is not a connection failure and nothing is missing.”

Why it happens

The chart reads the local cache first, so it can draw without any connection. When no broker is connected, that cache is all there is. The notice exists because a chart without a live feed and a broken chart look the same.

How to fix it

• Click “Connect a broker” to open the Connection Manager, or “Guide me step by step” for the five-step connection guide.
• Once a broker connects and the chart receives live data, the Local data badge and the notice go away.
• If you only want to study, click “Replay a cached session” or “Hide this notice” and keep working on the local history.

What it is not

• Not missing data: the notice states what is cached and how old it is.
• Not a broken connection when you never connected: the app did not try to reach a broker.
• Not the same as “No local data for {symbol}”, which means there is nothing stored at all for that instrument.

When to contact support

If the message comes back after these steps, report it from Menu → Report a problem or on the Senzoukria Discord. Only if the badge stays after a broker shows as connected: include the connection card state and the chart’s data source.