I am writing my first FX scalping model, but I am having trouble setting up trading times. I want the model to trade between 8am est and 12pm only. I see there is a scheduler method, but fail to see how it works for time intervals. I wrote a static method for calculating time, but it seems to be only for working with system time rather than backtesting time. How do I access those variable. Below is what I was working with. Help would be appreciated!
public static bool isTradeTime() {
/*
Only trade from 8am to 12 est
*/
TimeSpan start = new TimeSpan(8, 0, 0);
TimeSpan end = new TimeSpan(12, 0, 0);
TimeSpan now = DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay;
if ((now > start) && (now < end)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
Ray Bohac
Use Time instead of DateTime.Now. That will be theDateTime in the alogithm and works in backtest as well as realtime
Antonio Guillen
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