Range Bar Duration

[ninjaGeorge]

I'm a new user, and I need to get the duration of a range bar in seconds, or even better in microseconds. I believe that I will probably need to use a TimeSpan class, but have not been able to figure out how to code it.

What I need is duration(time of close of current bar - time of close of bar [1])

Thanks.

[sledge]

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I'm a new user, and I need to get the duration of a range bar in seconds, or even better in microseconds. I believe that I will probably need to use a TimeSpan class, but have not been able to figure out how to code it.

What I need is duration(time of close of current bar - time of close of bar [1])

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello ninjaGeorge,

Because you are only wanting the close time of each bar, this would be simple to find.

To do this use the Time data series. For example:

barTime = ToTime(Time[0]) - ToTime(Time[1]);


Below is a link to the help guide on the Time data series.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...s/nt7/time.htm

[Harry]

Hello ninjaGeorge,

Because you are only wanting the close time of each bar, this would be simple to find.

To do this use the Time data series. For example:

barTime = ToTime(Time[0]) - ToTime(Time[1]);


Below is a link to the help guide on the Time data series.
http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...s/nt7/time.htm

This solution will not work for the first bar of the session as it will exaggerate the bar duration after a break. Below is a code snippet, which gets you the barDuration (here a DataSeries object is used to collect the value for each bar) in seconds.

if (CurrentBar < 1)
      return;
Bars.Session.GetNextBeginEnd(Bars, 0, out sessionBegin, out sessionEnd);
      if (FirstTickOfBar)
      {
          if (sessionBegin >= Time[1])
               barStartTime = sessionBegin;
          else
               barStartTime = Time[1];
      }
      barDuration.Set((Time[0] - barStartTime).TotalSeconds);

The NinjaTrader tick file format does not have microseconds granularity, so I would not try to have this calculated in microseconds. The result would change when you refresh via F5.