What is the best way to refer to the date for the strategy input?

[WalterSkinner]

I am a discretionary trader using a strategy to enter my trades.

Each day I manually input two prices that the strategy uses to trade.

For the purposes of backtesting/optimization I would like to be able to input those two prices for a series of days.

What is the best way to do this?

One way I came across while searching was to use the day of the year (where the first day of the calendar year is 1), but I wanted to create this post to see if that was truly the best way to go about this or if there is a more efficient solution.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello WalterSkinner,

Yes that would likely be an easy way to do that. You could make a list or array of prices and then use the day of the year as the index. Other ways would likely involve more code such as working with times or dates/loading data from file.

I look forward to being of further assistance.