Color first bar in 5-minute window

[pennywise]

Hi all, happy new year,

I am looking at the 1-minute chart. I would like to change the color of my price bar depending on its time.

E.g. each first bar in a 5 minute time frame should be colored and therefore easily visible: 9:01 bar, 9:06 bar, 9:11 bar, 9:16 bar, etc.

Ideally I can change the settings easily to show other time frames (e.g. 3 bar in 15 minute time frame): 9:03 bar, 9:18 bar, 9:33 bar, etc.

The code below marks me the 9:06 bar red, but how can I do this every 5minutes? It seems I cannot loop the TimeSpan to increase by 5 each time... Is there a better way? It seems complicated to me...

private TimeSpan start = new TimeSpan(09,01,00);
private TimeSpan timeperiod = new TimeSpan(00,05,00);

if (Times[0][0].TimeOfDay == start.Add(timeperiod))
{
BarBrush = Brushes.Red;
}

Thanks for any guidance!

pennywise

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello pennywise,

You could update the start variable when the time is less than the current bar time to 5 minutes a head.

if (start <= Time[0])
{
start = start.Add(timeperiod);
}

Or you could have a condition that checks if the time Minutes is divisible by 5)

if (start.Minutes % 5 == 0)

[pennywise]

Works. Thank you!

[pennywise]

Hi ChelseaB,

I have a follow up question: I know by now how to handle time but struggle with the date.

Say on Thursday January 20th 2022 I want my bars red-colored and on Friday January 21st 2022 I want my bars green colored, and I want to keep the bars colored like that for all eternity, I would need to hard-code the date: How would that look like?

I found Print("Date: " + DateTime.Now) which gives me Date: 2022-01-21 8:39:28 PM in my output window. But if I use that logic and get an error message: if (DateTime.Now == new DateTime(2022,01,21)) it does not recognize it.

Do you know what I am doing wrong?

pennywise

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello pennywise,

Provide the full error message for assistance with error messages.

If I understand correctly:

if (Time[0].Year == 2022 && Time[0].Month == 1 && Time[0].Day == 20)
{
}

[pennywise]

Thank you. Just earlier today I found something that works too:

if (Time[0].Date == new DateTime(2022,01,20))
{
}

Have a great week and thanks again. p