Time associated with a bar

[janseun]

Hi

This might be drop-dead easy, but I've searched around in the manuals and cannot find the solution to it.

I would like to back-test trading certain futures contracts, but want to limit trading to only a certain time of day.

When back-testing the strategy on historical data, how can I tell what time of day it is when onbarupdate is called? I.e. is there a bar property that refers to its timestamp?

Thank you
Jan

[bltdavid]

When back-testing the strategy on historical data, how can I tell what time of day it is when onbarupdate is called? I.e. is there a bar property that refers to its timestamp?

Yes, there is a Time series.

When OnBarUpdate() is called, Time[0] will contain the date & time of when the bar closed.

Also check out this reference sample:

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3226

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Jan,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

Member bltdavid has provided a good answer to your question. To supplement, here are specific references in the helpguide that are related:
Time[n]: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...eries_time.htm
ToTime(): http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...us/?totime.htm

Also, another example of working with datetime objects: http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...ad.php?t=19292

[janseun]

Awesome, that does it! Thank you for the help. Don't know how I missed those.