Dear All,

I need help I'm trying to implement a trading day of the month/year strategy.

Where a trade would be entered on the open of a particular trading day of particular month or year and then exit on the close of that day.

I'm having a problem creating the counter for either.

 

Code

Inputs: Month1(0), TDOM1(0); Variables: TDOM (0); TDOM = 0; If month(Date) = Month1 then Begin TDOM = TDOM + 1; End; If TDOM = TDOM1 then Buy 1 Contract next bar open; If barssinceentry=0 then Sell 1 contract this bar close;

Thanks for the help!!!!!

edgeseek,

I would suggest to add print statements to your code to find out what values TDOM has throughout your code.

Print (Reserved Word)

Regards,

ABCTG

Thanks but do you know how to deal with the trading day counter?

I can call a particular month as month of January = 1 but

then on counting the trading days from the beginning of the month to the end is where I have an issue!

Print doesn't because the counter does not work, if I enter 1 as in first trading day it gives me results for trading every day for a particular month entering 2 would give me 0 trades.

edgeseek,

the counter works, the problem is that you reset the counter variable to 0 on every code computation. That's why I suggested using print, so you can see the values that your code computes.

Regards,

ABCTG

Hi ABCTG,

Is there a week function / implementation that would return the week ID of the year?

I know a search would return: https://www.multicharts.com/support/base/week but that doesn't work as it returns some wrong data:

Date: 1070315.00; week: 11.00
Date: 1070316.00; week: 11.00
Date: 1070319.00; week: 11.00
Date: 1070320.00; week: 12.00
Date: 1070321.00; week: 12.00

Looking in a calendar ... 19 March 2007 was a Monday ... impossible to be same week number as the 16th ... hence it doesn't work properly.

Thanks

Hi andby,

I am not aware of any publicly available functions besides the week function you pointed out.
If you found an error with it, I would suggest reporting it to Multicharts so they can fix it.

Regards,

ABCTG

andby 

Hi ABCTG, Is there a week function / implementation that would return the week ID of the year? I know a search would return: https://www.multicharts.com/support/base/week but that doesn't work as it returns some wrong data: Date: 1070315.00; week: 11.00 Date: 1070316.00; week: 11.00 Date: 1070319.00; week: 11.00 Date: 1070320.00; week: 12.00 Date: 1070321.00; week: 12.00 Looking in a calendar ... 19 March 2007 was a Monday ... impossible to be same week number as the 16th ... hence it doesn't work properly. Thanks

andby,

you might also want to check your data and code. I am getting a result of 12 for the week on March 19th using daily MSFT data and just plotting Week(Date).

Regards,

ABCTG

andby 

Hi ABCTG, Is there a week function / implementation that would return the week ID of the year? I know a search would return: https://www.multicharts.com/support/base/week but that doesn't work as it returns some wrong data: Date: 1070315.00; week: 11.00 Date: 1070316.00; week: 11.00 Date: 1070319.00; week: 11.00 Date: 1070320.00; week: 12.00 Date: 1070321.00; week: 12.00 Looking in a calendar ... 19 March 2007 was a Monday ... impossible to be same week number as the 16th ... hence it doesn't work properly. Thanks

Use Julian Dates

 

Code

var: yearenddate(0), weeknumber(0); If barnumber = 1 then yearenddate = DateToJulian((year(date)-1)*10000 + 1231); If year(date) > year(date[1]) then yearenddate = DateToJulian(year(date[1])*10000 + 1231); weeknumber = floor((DateToJulian(Date) - yearenddate - 1)/7) + 1;

Hi @andby,

have you been able to track down the problem that is causing the wrong week number on your end?

Regards,

ABCTG