Certain times excluded from trading

NexusFi · 2009-08-07T18:09:47-04:00

ToTime is just a converter to make it easy to test against using a numbers like 080000 for 08:00:00am (hours:minutes:seconds). Time[0] is the time of bar 0. So it works for historical data (backtesting) as it's tested against the bar time, not against the current PC clock time. In other words, in real live trading, Time[0] will be based on the time of the last close of the bar, and it's the same for historical. Mike You can also use DateTime.TimeOfDay: DateTime timeNow = Time[0].TimeOfDay; …

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Updated August 7, 2009

Certain times excluded from trading

August 7th, 2009, 06:09 PM

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shodson

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All of my strategies have somethig like this

Code

                            
protected void OnBarUpdate()
{
   if (IsTimeToTrade)
   {
      if (PositionIsFlat)
      {
         // Look for entry signals
      }
   }
}

private bool PositionIsFlat { get { return Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat; } }

// only trade 6:30 am - 1:00 pm (West Coast)
private bool IsTimeToTrade { get { return ToTime(Time[0]) > 63000 && ToTime(Time[0]) <= 130000; } }