Exclude Holidays

[cutzpr]

Ok I know there must be a better way to do this than the way I am doing it. Essentially I want to prevent my strategy from trading on pre-determined dates/holidays but I don't want to include this code in my strategy so I created an indicator which is called from the strategy. The values from the indicator are either 1 or 0 depending if it is a holiday or not. It works, but is there a better way for me to do this.Thoughts?

[NinjaTrader_CodyB]

Hello,
Aside from including defining what days not to trade in the strategy this is the only other way I could think to do this.
We will leave this thread open in case any other forum users have any thoughts on this.

[koganam]

Ok I know there must be a better way to do this than the way I am doing it. Essentially I want to prevent my strategy from trading on pre-determined dates/holidays but I don't want to include this code in my strategy so I created an indicator which is called from the strategy. The values from the indicator are either 1 or 0 depending if it is a holiday or not. It works, but is there a better way for me to do this.Thoughts?

It will have to be coded. Your method works, but there is a slightly less inelegant method detailed in this thread.

ref: http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...d.php?p=140164

Look at the post by kdoren.

[bltdavid]

Ok I know there must be a better way to do this than the way I am doing it. Essentially I want to prevent my strategy from trading on pre-determined dates/holidays but I don't want to include this code in my strategy so I created an indicator which is called from the strategy. The values from the indicator are either 1 or 0 depending if it is a holiday or not. It works, but is there a better way for me to do this.Thoughts?

You can also take a look at this library,

https://www.nuget.org/packages/DateTimeExtensionAndHolidaySchedule/0.1.0

[cutzpr]

Hello,
Aside from including defining what days not to trade in the strategy this is the only other way I could think to do this.
We will leave this thread open in case any other forum users have any thoughts on this.

How would I go about adding it this to the define or creating a custom user define method. The directions on how to do it for NT7 do not pertain to NT8.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/?user_defined_methods.htm

[NinjaTrader_CodyB]

Hello,
The UserDefined Methods are not in NinjaTrader 8.
Please see the following post on this subject: http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...15&postcount=2

[cutzpr]

I never uploaded my solution, perhaps it can be useful for some one. I use two static Addons. Here is how I use them.

        //Boolean for Holidays and NFP
        private bool isHoliday;
        private bool isNFP; 

if (Bars.IsFirstBarOfSession && IsFirstTickOfBar) // Setup everything for the new session
                {
                isHoliday = Holidays.IsItHoliday((ToDay(Time[0]) ) ); // Checks if the trading day is a holiday
                isNFP = NFPs.IsItNFP ((ToDay(Time[0]) ) ); // Checks if the current day is  NFP day 
                } 

[YakusaTrader]

Thanks so much!
How would you access static addons from a strategy ?

[YakusaTrader]

I figured it out, I had to add:

using NinjaTrader.Custom.AddOns;