toTime() system clock or market clock?

[bluemele]

Hi,

Curious on toTIME() does it pick up the market or local CPU time?

Thanks,

Blue

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

Really neither. ToTime() converts some .NET time to an integer that is easier to understand:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/ToTime.html

Time[0] is what you are probably converting, so that would be the time stamp of the referenced bar. In the case of Time[0], it is the current bar "0" time stamp. The time stamps match your PC clock settings:

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Time.html

[AnotherTrader]

Hello,
... The time stamps match your PC clock settings ...

Doesn't it depend on whether the incoming data has its own timestamp?

I'm referring to the following found under "How does NinjaTrader build Chart Bars?"

in the help manual.

As ticks come into NinjaTrader in real-time, they are time stamped based on your local PC time if they do not already have an associated time stamp that is provided from the real-time data source. The majority of our supported brokerage feeds DO NOT time stamp ticks where most of our supported market data vendor feeds do provide time stamped ticks.

[bluemele]

Trade at specific time

Hi Ben,

Let me explain what I am trying to do:

1. Market reaches certain time (hhmmss) of day (only load strategy on that chart 5 minutes out from time of trade)

2. Market puts in OCO order for long/short breakout

3. typical TP's and SL's

I have configured the wizard for some of it, then went in by hand (been a while since I have done any coding) and went through all the articles on TIME object and still spinning circles as I am not a programmer by trade.

What I have now is this:

if(DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.CompareTo(ToTime(8,29,52)) == ToTime(8, 29, 52))
			{
                EnterLongStopLimit(Quantity, Close[0] + PriceOffset * TickSize, Close[0] + 2 * TickSize, "L1");
                EnterShortStopLimit(Quantity, Close[0] + PriceOffset * TickSize, Close[0] + 2 * TickSize, "S1");
            }

I would think this would work, however, I would think the 'compareTo' method returns BOOL and I wouldn't have to do the last part. However, I always get lots of errors and would rather spend my time trading. haha



Blue...

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

I suggest using this sample as reference:

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3226

You also may find this breakout specific sampel useful (although I do not think it uses time as a filter):

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3223

You may want to do something like this:

if(ToTime(Time[0]) >= 82952)//if time now is >= to 8:29AM and 52 sec's.
{
//do something
}

[bluemele]

thank you

Ben,

Thanks, that is much simpler and less confusing. I thought I tried that at one time and nothing came through as I did a replay, but I will try it again and see. The Strategy helps a ton, awesome, thanks!