Small issue when adding trading time filter to strategy

[traderty]

I am somewhat new to programming strategies, but can generally understand the logic. I need help getting my trade time filter working. I might have it placed in the wrong state or something? I'm not entirely sure. I added 2 blocks of time on the strategy so it trades between those times.

Everyting compiles just fine. I guess I'm not sure where I'm supposed to place each part of the code. The defaults go stat.setdefaults, but what about the rest of it?

Here is what I added as defaults:

//Trading Time Filter #1
StartTime1 = DateTime.Parse("06:00", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) ;
EndTime1 = DateTime.Parse("07:15", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) ;

//Trading Time Filter #2
StartTime2 = DateTime.Parse("08:35", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) ;
EndTime2 = DateTime.Parse("10:00", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) ;

This is what I added for bools:

bool TradeBlock1 = ((Times[0][0].TimeOfDay > StartTime1.TimeOfDay) && (Times[0][0].TimeOfDay < EndTime1.TimeOfDay));
bool TradeBlock2 = ((Times[0][0].TimeOfDay > StartTime2.TimeOfDay) && (Times[0][0].TimeOfDay < EndTime2.TimeOfDay));

And then this is what I had for my logic:

// If not between start and end time return
if (!TradeBlock1 && !TradeBlock2)

{
return;

}

Any help to get this functioning is greatly appreciated

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello traderty,

Thank you for your post.

You said that it compiled successfully; is the strategy behaving as expected when testing it out? If not, please describe the unexpected behavior that you are trying to correct. Additionally, we have a reference sample of a strategy that uses time filters to limit when it trades here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/using_a_time_filter_to_limit_t.htm

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance.

[bltdavid]

Good reading here.