What day is it?

[mainstream]

Will we be able to determine what day it is in a strategy? For example, I don't like to trade on Fridays.

If Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and SMA5>SMA20

Enter long 1 contract.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello mainstream,

As far as I know this is not supported. However, I suggest not to run the strategy on Friday and run it for the days you like to trade.

[mainstream]

ok thanks.

[hemlock]

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[jerimac2]

C# is available to help

Don't forget that NinjaScript is operating in C#. There are programming features available in C#, so NinjaTrader doesn't need to add them. The DateTime object in C# includes a DayOfWeek property you can use.

Add the following declaration to your Variables:

DateTime myDate = new DateTime();

In your OnBarUpdate handler, add the following:

myDate = DateTime.Today;
if ( myDate.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday )
{
// Put your normal strategy logic here.
}

This will work for real-time strategies, but not for backtesting, since DateTime.Today returns the current date, not the simulated date. Check out MSDN for other methods you can use to evaluate backtest dates:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ds(VS.80).aspx

j2

[mainstream]

Great. Thank you.