Trade only from 7.45 am untill 18.00 pm

• 06/03/2016 at 10:05 PM #8779
  Pjotterd

  Hi, I want to set up automated trading, but I only want to do this with a strategy that is working daily from 7.45 AM untill 18.00 PM. Is this possible to set up? Thanks in advance.

  

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  06/04/2016 at 12:21 AM #8781
  Adolfo

  Yes it is!

  IF TIME>=074500 AND TIME<180000 THEN Trading=1 ELSE Trading=0 ENDIF

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  IF TIME>=074500 AND TIME<180000 THEN Trading=1 ELSE Trading=0 ENDIF

  Just add “if trading=1” to your condition to enter market

  cheers

  

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  06/04/2016 at 12:23 AM #8782
  Adolfo

  There is another way to even exit at market if end time reach.

  DEFPARAM FLATBEFORE = 074500 DEFPARAM FLATAFTER = 180000

  1 2	DEFPARAM FLATBEFORE = 074500 DEFPARAM FLATAFTER = 180000

  Advise: those lines must be at first lines before code

  

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  06/04/2016 at 9:57 AM #8786
  Pjotterd

  Thanks guys! It works!

  

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  06/05/2016 at 1:32 AM #8804
  grizzly

  I’ve never tried, but is there a way to Conditionalise DEFPARAM FLATAFTER so that if a position in profit is open, it won’t close ?

   

  

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  06/05/2016 at 9:35 AM #8806
  GraHal

  Yes I need this too Grizzly, but something like the opposite …

  If position is at Loss < – L then don’t close until time T or Loss > 0

  Logic being that without above condition you may be closing near the bottom of a short term cycle / wave which may recover somewhat in  1 or 2 hours.

  Thanks

  GraHal

  

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  06/05/2016 at 9:47 AM #8808
  Nicolas

  @grizzly and @GraHal

  With POSITIONPERF you can easily test if the actual positions are in profit. If so, make a conditional statement to close the basket or not accordingly to the present time.

  

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  06/05/2016 at 10:04 AM #8811
  GraHal

  Hi Nicolas, thanks

  Yes I use Positionperf a lot, it is very very useful.

  2 days ago one of my positions closed under a FlatAfter rule with a near £2,500 loss (it was only Demo!)  I checked after and it would have recovered a few hours later.

  So it was the above that prompted my question after Grizzly asking also.

  Its just that I have started using Strategies in French etc and so tweaking existing code (to add Positionperf) is not straightforward (I am english only), but I’ll get there with the help of google translate and learn French also! ha

  Cheers

  GraHal

   

  

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