if TODAY (only)

July 14th, 2010, 04:16 PM

Historical is really used to discern between historical quotes and live quotes, not really for "today".

If you are checking bar data, you do the following:

if (Time[0].Date == DateTime.Now.Date) ....

July 14th, 2010, 04:20 PM

Thanks for the explanations. It now works like a charm.

Is there a way to code just the same but for YESTERDAY or say DAY-2 (only) ?

July 14th, 2010, 04:31 PM

for yesterday you can use:

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if (Time[0].Date == DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1).Date) ...

-> but you might run into trouble with weekends and holidays

SARdynamite

Thanks for the explanations. It now works like a charm.

Is there a way to code just the same but for YESTERDAY or say DAY-2 (only) ?

July 14th, 2010, 05:00 PM

Thanks.

Yeah the goal is to avoid daybreaks to move back in time only for real trading sessions.

I did not look at your sessionPivots indicator yet (actually, just a bit and it is very complete) but it seems to me that cory with his "ADR_cory" indicator already programmed that.

Now, I'll have to dig into it enough because it's not sweet candy for my brain.

July 14th, 2010, 06:08 PM

Actually not, it does not seem to exclude day breaks neither.

July 14th, 2010, 06:21 PM

All of my strats have this

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private DateTime Now { get { if (Historical) return Time[0]; else return DateTime.Now; } }

So in OnBarUpdate() I just use "Now" and it'll work for backtesting and real-time trading. For example, if I want to only trade between 9:30 am (930) and 1:15 pm (1315)

Code

if (ToTime(Now)/100 >= 930 && ToTime(Now)/100 <= 1315)
    trade();

Or, if I do NOT want to trade between 10:15 and 10:45 every Wednesday because of oil inventory reports I would

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if (ToTime(Now)/100 >= 1015 && ToTime(Now)/100 <= 1045 && Now.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Wednesday)
    dontTrade();

July 14th, 2010, 06:42 PM

SARdynamite

Actually not, it does not seem to exclude day breaks neither.

it calculates the days with data only.

July 14th, 2010, 06:54 PM

Really ? So you can tell it to examine only 3 or 5 session days back ? (excluding weekends, holidays, misc closed days)

I read on your parameters description that it would include Saturdays and Sundays so I'm a bit lost.

July 14th, 2010, 07:00 PM

SARdynamite

Really ? So you can tell it to examine only 3 or 5 session days back ? (excluding daybreaks)

I read on your parameters description that it would include Saturdays and Sundays so I'm a bit lost.

you read it from a programmer stand point. My comment is for a regular user when they want 5 days back they may not realize there is no data on Sat. and depending on the session time they may not even have data on Sun. Thus 5 days to them could be = 3 days with data.

July 14th, 2010, 07:08 PM

Understood.

So could you be able to exclude non data days ? i.e. if it is set to 5, then take the last 5 sessions with data (skipping holidays, weekends, etc)

If you have the code for this by hand easily, I'd be really grateful if you can isolate it and share it. It's not that easy to navigate through someone else's code.

This way I can finish an idea of an overall indicator framing volatility (I have 2-3 ideas to include)

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