Stop trading for a period of time(Longer than a day and shorter than a day)

[tchen7]

As I am developing my strategy, I wanted to test to stop trading for some x period of time. However, I realized that i can only implement the logic for not trading for the day by using if Bars.IsFirstBarOfSession

I wanted to test my strategy using different periods of time
1. longer than a day(ie. a week or a month)
2. shorter than day(ie. an hour).

How would I go about this.

Thank you again!

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi tchen7, thanks for writing in. To go longer than one day you will need to use DateTime variables and check the Time[0] timestamp on every bar to make sure the time stamp has not passed that exact date. Time[] is an array full of DateTime objects for each bar on the chart, and the documentation for DateTime is linked below:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/do...e?view=net-7.0 (publicly available).

I found an example here that will be helpful:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...an-30-days-old (publicly available)

Kind regards,
-ChrisL