time constant error?

• 09/23/2016 at 4:25 PM #13636
  patrick356

  Hi all,

  I try to build some general functions to be used on several different time frames (5 min, 10 min, hour and so on). The time frame is chosen from the security window but I can’t see how to find that value inside the code.

  Therefore I try to get the difference of each bar time by stating time-time[1] with strange results. And then I just tried with “graph time” in 5 and 10 minutes time frames. To my surprise it didn’t produce a straight showing higher and higher. Instead there is a step when coming between xx:40 and xx:50 minutes. Why? I don’t understand.

  Is there some other way to find the selected time frame inside the code?

  Thanks

  Patrick

  

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  09/23/2016 at 6:25 PM #13637
  patrick356

  OK, wrote a solution that might do it. It seem to be ok during the time the security is open for trade. After that some strange results appears but it doesn’t matter. I’m sure there is a better solution than this.

  dayminutes = 1440*(day-day[1])
  hourminutes = 60*(hour-hour[1])
  barminutes = minute – minute[1] + hourminutes + dayminutes
  graph barminutes

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  09/24/2016 at 8:44 AM #13654
  Nicolas

  Because each conditions are only tested once per bar, your GRAPH TIME return the time when the script is ran, so every 10 minutes on a 10 minutes timeframe, that’s why you see “steps”.

  There’s no built-in instruction to get the current timeframe the strategy is currently running on. Your code may be a start to build a function to get it simply. This is definitely something we (the community) need to resolve, as it is often needed. Time to rest for me, week-end time 🙂

  FYI, there’s a bunch of date & time instructions to play with : http://www.prorealcode.com/documentation/category/dateandtime/

  

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