Exact time of Tick arrival

[buddie]

Hi

I'm trying to get the exact time of the arrival of my Ticks (at least to the resolution of 1 seconds)

Time[0].Second or Time[0].Ticks seems to be useless in my case.

I've been reading some info about using timer, but it seems It's not applicable if I want to do market replay. (ie. even when I pause the time, the timer continues to tick)

Why am I doing this? Let's say because I want to cancel order if in the next 30 seconds the order doesn't get filled.

Thank you

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi buddie,

Try...
DateTime.Now.Second

[buddie]

Hi Tim,

I supposed that would work if I'm running real time. But how about if I want to do a market replay?

I understand that DateTime.Now refers to system time at that moment, not at that particular bar/tick.

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi buddie,

I see, I assume your series is larger than a 30 second interval? Hence why you are having trouble using Time[0].Second or Time[0].Ticks?

[buddie]

Because it always refer to the previous bar close?

Time[0].Second always return 0, while Time[0].Ticks will return the same value until it moves on to the next bar

I saw this thread: http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ad.php?t=12610

and seems that he suggessted to use timer. But getting a tick time should be simple, why is it so difficult.

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

buddie,

Then this topic has been covered already, if you want to to do this in real time, you have options, same as when using Market Replay, as mentioned in this post:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=12610

[buddie]

I found this: http://bitbucket.org/tooooooby/ninjatrader_tobysoundcounter/src/54d75aa63436/TobySoundCounter.cs

and basically he/she used:

Bars.MarketData.Connection.Options.Provider == Cbi.Provider.Replay ? Bars.MarketData.Connection.Now : DateTime.Now


what do you think?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I found this: http://bitbucket.org/tooooooby/ninjatrader_tobysoundcounter/src/54d75aa63436/TobySoundCounter.cs

and basically he/she used:

Bars.MarketData.Connection.Options.Provider == Cbi.Provider.Replay ? Bars.MarketData.Connection.Now : DateTime.Now


what do you think?

I believe that will work.