Time Functions not working?
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In your example you used 50 seconds, so only if a candle closes on that boundary (try on a 10-second TF).
If you use 142900 it’ll work on a 1-minute TF, if you use 142500 it’ll work also on a 5-minute TF, and so forth…
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on the 1 minute time frame but nothing higher
That’s because you are using 143300 and so that time can only be met on a 1 min or less TF.
IF time = 142950 THEN
This means that your conditions must be met at that exact time else no trade.
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It sounds like I can’t open a trade at this very specif time. Is that correct?
I was wrong, you can open at that specific time.
I thought you have additional conditions, but now I see you haven’t.
See Roberto comment re use of 142950
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As from Nicolas’ explanation in a comment to official documentation “CurrentTime is the one of the official timezone where the instrument is traded.”
So if you trade Nikkei and it’s 11am UTC+0 and the bar is labelled 100000, OPENTIME will return 100000 (opening time) TIME returns 110000 (closing time), CURRENTTIME will return 110000 + TZ difference for Japan.
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Above added as Log 223 here …
I added the Comment … not code but worthy of logging here! 🙂
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Code is read and decisions on orders made at the close of every candle. At this point the only times that the strategy can use are the ones at the open (OPENTIME) and at the close (TIME) of that candle. If you want a trade to open at time = 142950 then you must ensure that your chart has a candle that has a time of 142950.
Just trying to figure… maybe the trade is still open next day due to high TP or SL and no further entry is allowed.
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