Future time stamps?

[FREEN]

Plotting in future is done beautifully by NT. However, Time[-X] returns the time stamp of the last loaded bar. Any suggestion on how to get a future time stamp returned by Time[]?

Kindly, Fredrik

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello FREEN,

It is not possible to get Time Stamps in the future. Since there is not actually a bar object at this time, calling Time[-x] will bring the most current bar.

Using values in the future is limited to only plots and draw objects and are a cosmetic/visual feature that was implemented. This will not function when requesting a bar index that is in the future.

[FREEN]

For anyone in need, here´s a method that accepts pos and neg barsago values and hence returns historic and future "time stamps". Substitute Time[int barsago] with AllTime(int barsago). It should be generic enough to accept all bars sized in minutes in all templates.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Freen, thanks for your contribution.

[neoikon]

For anyone in need, here´s a method that accepts pos and neg barsago values and hence returns historic and future "time stamps". Substitute Time[int barsago] with AllTime(int barsago). It should be generic enough to accept all bars sized in minutes in all templates.

Thanks for your contribution!

So, I take it this doesn't work for daily time frames? Since your posting, have you figured out how to handle the issue on non-minute-based charts?

Thanks!
Daniel

[FREEN]

Daniel,

Didn´t take a look on that since I only use 1-30 min timeframes. I believe the same logic is pretty easily applied on days and secs as well. Take a look in the code, feel free to ask if in doubt.

//Fredrik

[markus1000]

whats the best way program the day before a specific date.

I have a long list of dates

ToDay(Time[0]) ==ToDay(2001, 01, 31)

but i alsoe want to check if its the day before that day or the day after

ToDay(Time[0]) ==ToDay(2001, 01, 31+x)

but thats not accurate for first or last of the month dates.

How could i apply the Alltime feature with the dates

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello,

You can use the .NET DateTime.AddDays method which will handle the logic for the end of the month:

ToDay(new DateTime(2012, 08, 31).AddDays(1));

Which will produce 20120901

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.adddays.aspx