How do I return the date and Time of bars

[blarouche]

Hi all,

Maybe a newbie question but I would like to return the Date and Time of different historical bars meeting specific conditions in my output window.

Is there an easy way to code that ?



Bernard

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Hi Bernard, NinjaTrader stores time information just like it stores high and low information. You can access Time[0] for the current bar's timestamp. Time[nBarsBack] will return a DateTime object, which may be difficult to work with. NinjaTrader comes with a functions to make working with time easier.

Functions:
ToTime()
ToDay()
Time[]

If the current bar's time is 1:59:00 PM July 31, 2009:

Print(ToTime(Time[0])); // returns int value of 135900
Print(ToDay(Time[0])); // returns int value of 20090731
Print(Time[0].ToString()); // returns string "7/31/2009 1:59:00 PM" depending on localization settings

[blarouche]

Easy enough !

Great

Thank you Austin

[Freddo]

is there a function to format the time value to pad with leading zeros?
eg ToTime(Time[0]) returns 53000 for 5:30am I would prefer 053000

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Freddo, no unfortunately not.

[Freddo]

is there any date format masks at all, ie hh:mm:ss hh:mm or hhmm?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Freddo,

You would want to work directly with the DateTime object then. Unfortunately this is outside the scope of what we can cover, but there is a lot of documentation on this over on MSDN and on Google.