calculating time past 50 percent

[ballboy11]

I need to figure out ha time stamp is past 50 percent past a bar for example

I drew a line on a 15 minute time frame and the time is 8:23.15

what i need to know if the 8:15 bar is half way done.

I need it for all time frames

1 min, 2 min 5 min etc

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello ballboy11,

Thanks for your inquiry.

You could do so using CalculateOnBarClose = false;

This way your strategy will iterate on each tick. You can still reference each bar close by using a barsAgo of 1 instead of 0 when a tick iterates FirstTickOfBar.

As your strategy iterates each tick, you can get the time of the bar close using Time[0] and the current time with DateTime.Now. Depending on the time frame used, you can subtract half of that interval from Time[0] and see if DateTime.Now is greater than it.

Here is some sample code demonstrating how the logic could be set up for second bars:

TimeSpan TimeToSubtract;
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
	if(BarsPeriod.BasePeriodType == PeriodType.Second)
		TimeToSubtract = new TimeSpan(0,0,0,(int)BarsPeriod.Value/2);
	if(FirstTickOfBar)
	{
		Print(Close[1]); // Prints the same as Close[0] with CalculateOnBarClose = true;
	}
	if(ToTime(Time[0].Subtract(TimeToSubtract)) < ToTime(DateTime.Now))
		Print("Halfway done with second type bar");	
}

I will include documentation links below on the items used so they may be referenced to expand the logic for minutes, etc.

BarsPeriod - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...barsperiod.htm

FirstTickOfBar - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ttickofbar.htm

Time - https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/time.htm

ToTime() - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nt7/totime.htm

Additional reading on general C# DateTime and TimeSpan can be found below.

DateTime - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib....datetime.aspx

TimeSpan - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...v=vs.110).aspx

Please let me know if I can be of further help.