diff --git a/examples/highfreq/highfreq_handler.py b/examples/highfreq/highfreq_handler.py
index 19bb2550b..c15c3ec41 100644
--- a/examples/highfreq/highfreq_handler.py
+++ b/examples/highfreq/highfreq_handler.py
@@ -99,8 +99,6 @@ class HighFreqHandler(DataHandlerLP):
         ]
         names += ["$volume_1"]
 
-        fields += ["Cut({0}, 240, None)".format(template_paused.format("Date($close)"))]
-        names += ["date"]
         return fields, names
 
 
diff --git a/examples/highfreq/highfreq_processor.py b/examples/highfreq/highfreq_processor.py
index f0ab0dec2..62065469b 100644
--- a/examples/highfreq/highfreq_processor.py
+++ b/examples/highfreq/highfreq_processor.py
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ class HighFreqNorm(Processor):
             self.feature_vmin[name] = np.nanmin(part_values)
 
     def __call__(self, df_features):
+        df_features["date"] = pd.to_datetime(
+            df_features.index.get_level_values(level="datetime").to_series().dt.date.values
+        )
         df_features.set_index("date", append=True, drop=True, inplace=True)
         df_values = df_features.values
         names = {