Stop Trading Activity 1 Hour before end of trading day

[MohammedAmine]

Hello NT Team,

I want to stop trading activity 1 hour prior to market day trading closing time, and I came across this code in your NT8 DOC, but when I added it is shows me several erros

This is the code I found : https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/

private SessionIterator sessionIterator;

protected override void OnStateChange()
{
  if (State == State.DataLoaded)
  {
    //stores the sessions once bars are ready, but before OnBarUpdate is called
    sessionIterator = new SessionIterator(Bars);
  }
}

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
  // Only process strategy logic up until three hours prior to the end of the trading day at the exchange
  if (DateTime.Now <= sessionIterator.GetTradingDa yEndLocal(Bars.SessionIterator.ActualTradingDayExc hange).AddHours(-3))
  {
      // Strategy logic here
  }
}

I did all what I'm supposed to do, declarations, initiations and everything just as mentioned here, but same error which I attached here

Can you please tell me how to do it the right way ?

This is the code snippet I'm using now :

if (DateTime.Now <= sessionIterator.GetTradingDayEndLocal(Bars.Session Iterator.ActualTradingDayExchange).AddHours(-1))
{
   TimeUp = true;
}

Thank you very much

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello MohammedAmine,

The error is specifically because of this line:

Bars.SessionIterator.ActualTradingDayExchange

You would need to remove the Bars.S and make it just lowercase sessionIterator.

sessionIterator.ActualTradingDayExchange

Alternatively you could just use the ToTime method to make a time window.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/totime.htm?zoom_highlightsub=totime

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[MohammedAmine]

Hello Jesse,

Thanks for your reply, effectively when i removed the Bars. and turned s into lower case it removed the error, but still not working because when I printed this :

Print("Today Trading Will end at : " + sessionIterator.GetTradingDayEndLocal(sessionIterator.ActualTradingDayExchange));

it printed an Old date of year 1800, u can check the attached image

so how to know the REAL DayTrading End Date and Time ?

Thank you

[MohammedAmine]

Never mind, I solved it, here was the missing line :

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
  // on new bars session, find the next trading session
  if (Bars.IsFirstBarOfSession)
  {
    // use the current bar time to calculate the next session
    sessionIterator.GetNextSession(Time[0], true); // This was the missing line :)

    Print("The current session end of day is " + sessionIterator.ActualTradingDayEndLocal);
  }
}