Calculating time of a future bar

[ScottB]

Hi,

I am calculating the time of a future bar (for reporting purposes) with the following code where lastBarOfPeriod is a percentage of the total number of historical bars

idx = CurrentBar - lastBarOfPeriod;
Print("Calculated Time of last bar in period" + Time[idx].ToString());

This works perfectly but it seems I could have an issue at some point using a negative index. Is there a built in or better way to do this?

Best Regards,
Scott

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Scott, unfortunately I'm not aware of a method for calculating the time of a bar in the future. If you are using time based bars, you could just add the correct amount of time between the current and the future bar to see how far away it is.

[ScottB]

Austin, thanks for getting back to me. The way I did it works just fine, I was wondering if there were a better (less likely to break in the future) way of doing it.

I thought there might be a function to get the time associated with a given bar, somewhat like the function to get the bar associated with a given time.

Best Regards,
Scott

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Scott, there is currently not such a function, but I will pass it on as a suggestion if you want.

[ScottB]

Austin, thanks, that would be great but the way I did it works as well.

Best Regards,
Scott

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi Scott, thanks for your kind suggestion how to improve NinjaTrader even further - we'll track it now under # 851 in our system.

Have a great day,

[ScottB]

Bertrand, thanks so much.