Time/Date Stamp of Firstbar loaded

[donto]

Hello There

I seem to be using alot if time troubleshooting missing data errors. because i run in differant time frames,
bars required on a 30 sec series would be alot higher than on a daily series.


Instead of defining Bars required in numbers of bars the traditinal way i want to define it in a matter of hours.
how can i get the time / data stamp of the first bar recieved ?

I will then check that with the current bar and check i always have atleast for an example 48 hours in between.

I was hoping to do something like this but cant seem to get it working.

if (Time[CurrentBars[0]].AddHours(48) >= Time[b])
return;

[waltFX]

Maybe use:

if(CurrentBar == 1)
.....


and also do a forum search for "IsFirstBarOfSession" , which may be of use...

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello donto,

Time[CurrentBars[0]] would provide the time of the first bar of the primary series.

I would recommend using prints to understand the behavior.

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/article/Developer-Guide-Debugging-using-Print-and-TraceOrders

Print(string.Format("{0} | BarsInProgress: {1} | Time[CurrentBars[0]: {2}]: {3} .AddHours(48): {4} => Time[b: {5}]: {6}", Time[0], BarsInProgress, Time[CurrentBars[0]], Time[CurrentBars[0]].AddHours(48), b, Time[b]));

You can use Bars.GetBar() to get a bar with an absolute index for a given datetime, and subtract this from CurrentBar for a barsAgo index.