Time Variables

[waza1960]

Anyone know how to have different time intervals for optimization.
For Example say I wanted to enter a trade at a certain hour then I can create a variable such as
&& ToTime(Time[0]) == ToTime(Hours, 0, 0)
and this works ok
but say that I also want to have a minutes variable as well
&& ToTime(Time[0]) == ToTime(Hours,Mins, 0)this doesn't work
I also used two lines with hours in one and minutes in the other but either approach doesn't work .

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

waza1960, what range of values are you then allowing for those 2 variables?

[waza1960]

for hours the range I am trying is 1----12 & minutes 1---59 . Thanks

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi waza1960,

What interval are you running this against?

Trading hours could range from 0-23. 0-59 is a valid range for minutes, but will also need to look at the interval you're using for this strategy. A 60 minute+ chart will not have any minute granularity.

Example:
Time[0] is the bar time stamp. There won't typically be a time stamp of 13:18 on a 15 minute interval. It would go from 13:15 and the next at 13:30.

[waza1960]

interval = 60 min chart
Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Ok, then please try to simply set the the inputs to a hour and minute range that should 'hit' on a present timestamp on your chart - would you then get an entry shown, so you would know the logic is working / triggering trades?

[waza1960]

Ok, then please try to simply set the the inputs to a hour and minute range that should 'hit' on a present timestamp on your chart - would you then get an entry shown, so you would know the logic is working / triggering trades?

Ok will do

Example:
Time[0] is the bar time stamp. There won't typically be a time stamp of 13:18 on a 15 minute interval. It would go from 13:15 and the next at 13:30.

Does this mean that if I'm optimising on a 60min chart I can't optimise minutes because the Smallest Time Stamp here is 60mins/hour?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

That's correct you would be limited to the timestamp granularity that your charted bars series offers, for a 1 minute for example this is down to the minute interval, but for a 60 min that would be only the hourly interval then. You could create a MultiSeries strategy though that would submit orders to a lower timeframe and thus you had access to smaller timestamps as well by using the Times[x] method.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/times.htm