Enter position approximately 5 min before market close

[vhanded]

i am backtesting a strategy that is using market close as signal. Of course, enter position at market close would mean enter at the opening of following bar, but this would mean the price will have a big gap in following bar.

To get the price that nearest to close price, i am considering to use a minute bar, and enter position, let's say, 5 min before market close.

How is this possible in backrest?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

vhanded, I guess you're talking about daily data here? To simulate your setup you would then need to work via intraday data so you can submit the order at your desired timestamp.

https://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/time.htm

[vhanded]

Thanks for your reply, however, DateTime.now will always return my current device time, which means, the value cannot be used in backtest. Any solutions?


Edit:
I figure that I need to get the market closing time of an instrument. How can I obtain that?

I thought I can use this:
Instrument.MasterInstrument.Session.NextEndTime

But the output is always 1/1/1800 12:00:00 AM

Help.

[vhanded]

I figured out I can do this:

DateTime sessionBegin;
DateTime sessionEnd;
Bars.Session.GetNextBeginEnd(Time[0], out sessionBegin, out sessionEnd);