Trouble with time update

[Joleto]

Hi,

I have built an indicator but it doesn't appear on the daily diagrams. When I do the debugging the orders after second "if" (see in the picture below) don't execute and I have observed that when I reload the ninjascript and see the time updates, it says that time is updated every day at 3. Can you tell me what's the problem with the daily charts and time?

Thank you in advance

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Joleto,

Thanks for your post.

Whom are you connected to (datafeed) when you run this code?

What is CalculateOnBarClose set to (True or false)?

[Joleto]

Hello Paul,

I am connected to CQG and CalculateOnBarClose is true.My code works good in Minute Charts but it doesn't work on Daily or Weekly...Any ideas?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Joleto,

Thanks for your reply.

The issue would be that your code is set to CalculateOnBarClose (true) which means it will only execute once per bar, at the close of that bar. So it can only check that it is within the date/time requirements at the end of the day or end of the week when looking at daily or weekly data. On the lower time frames, such as minute bars, there are enough OnBarUpdates (once per bar) so that your code executes as expected.

To check the date/time with greater frequency set the CalculateOnBarClose to false.

[Joleto]

It still doesn't work with daily chart...In my code I use bar changes so maybe that's the reason.Check out a better sample of my code (I try to compare yesterday's and today's highs and lows)

[koganam]

It still doesn't work with daily chart...In my code I use bar changes so maybe that's the reason.Check out a better sample of my code (I try to compare yesterday's and today's highs and lows)

What does your Print() show as ouput?

[Joleto]

Open window

These are the results.For some reason the time is always the same

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Joleto,

Thanks for your reply/post and to koganam for the prompt.

Your prints show that the time is 7:00 AM. Your time check code below the print statement will not execute until 9:30.

[koganam]

These are the results.For some reason the time is always the same

Your time says: "70000": your filter is entered between "93000" and "160000". Ergo, your filtered block is never entered, so the code cannot be executed. The lesson is that you cannot filter intraday times on a daily chart. A computer can only process data that actually exists.

[Joleto]

Yes but i guess that the indicator should have given results for previous dates as well.

[Joleto]

Aha I understand...So the indicator cannot show me result for past data,am I right?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Joleto,

Thanks for your reply.

On a closer look at your code, you are using ToTime(Time[0]) which will only provide the end time of the bar. So on daily bars it will show the end time of that daily bar. What you would need to do is to test for the current time. If you use DateTime.Now() that would provide a realtime time check.

Print (DateTime.Now.ToString()+" "+ToDay(Time[0])+ " "+ ToTime(Time[0]));

[koganam]

Aha I understand...So the indicator cannot show me result for past data,am I right?

It should show prints for all the days on the chart that satisfy the filter.