unknown specific day in the month

• 02/13/2024 at 4:34 PM #228076
  MaoRai54

  Hi everybody,

  after the big short candle of today due to the CPI data, I’d like to add in my strategies some lines to avoid any new trade in the period around the news.

  For Jobless data it’s easy because the news is always on Thursday all weeks.

  But for other news (Payrolls or CPI or RetailSales) that are, for example, only on the 2nd Tuesday of the month what do I have to write?

  Which are the instructions to let it know to avoid ONLY the second Tuesday ?

  Many thanks for your help

  

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  02/13/2024 at 4:55 PM #228080
  PeterSt

  Hi MaoRai,

  You could make some sort of loop which traces backwards (to) the 1st day of the month (Month <> Month[1]) and then looks forward for the 2nd Tuesday, starting 1 day further than what you found tracing backwards.
  More easy could be to just hard code the dates (see below for a list already there – you can extend it yourself of course).

  Regards,
  Peter

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  02/13/2024 at 5:00 PM #228082
  MaoRai54

  Hi,

  many thanks for your prompt reply.

  I’m unable to write the loop. I hope at Roberto or Nicolas will help me in that.

  Where did you get the sheet with the various dates of news ?

   

  

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  02/13/2024 at 5:09 PM #228084
  PeterSt

  Here you go : https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/cpi.htm

   

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  02/13/2024 at 5:32 PM #228092
  Iván

  Hi
  You could calculate wich tuesday it is with this code:

  if month = month[1] and dayofweek=2 then numtuesday = 1 + numtuesday elsif month = month[1] and dayofweek<>2 then numtuesday = numtuesday else numtuesday = 0 endif

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  if month = month[1] and dayofweek=2 then numtuesday = 1 + numtuesday elsif month = month[1] and dayofweek<>2 then numtuesday = numtuesday else numtuesday = 0 endif

  

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  02/13/2024 at 6:20 PM #228096
  PeterSt

  I shall be honest … I have been trying for 45 minutes or so, and couldn’t do it in that time.
  Then I saw your post, Iván, tried that, but unfortunately that doesn’t do a job either. Now 15 minutes later with your code as a base, I am going to give up and have a beer instead. 😜

  To let it work, (please) show a fully working snippet and point (Graph) at the 2nd Tuesdays of the month. Do you need a TimeFrame command, then inject that too.

  A strange beast this is !

   

  

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  02/13/2024 at 6:31 PM #228097
  MaoRai54

  Hi Ivan,

  thanks for your code but I don’t think it’s my request.

  I need a code that:

  • if the dayofweek=2 and (it is the second Tuesday of the month) and (hour=>14 and hour<=15) THENNoTrade=1

    Else

    NoTrade=0

    ENDIF

  • // where notrade=1 means not opening any trade in that day and hours

   

  

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  02/13/2024 at 7:31 PM #228106
  JC_Bywan

  Hi,

  if opendayofweek=2 and openday>=8 and openday<=14 and openhour=14 then notrade=1 else notrade=0 endif return notrade

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  if opendayofweek=2 and openday>=8 and openday<=14 and openhour=14 then notrade=1 else notrade=0 endif   return notrade

   

   

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  02/13/2024 at 8:08 PM #228109
  JC_Bywan

  Sorry, for the hourly part I looked at it as not trading for one hour between 14h and 15h, but it seems you actually meant for 2 hours, not one. Although depending if you used hour in its PRT meaning of candle closing time, or as a word, I am not sure if you meant no trade between 13h and 15h, or between 14h and 16h.

  If from 13h to 15h, please replace “and openhour=14 then” in line 1 by “and (openhour=13 or openhour=14) then“

  If from 14h to 16h, please replace “and openhour=14 then” in line 1 by “and (openhour=14 or openhour=15) then“

   

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  02/14/2024 at 4:51 AM #228118
  PeterSt

  Hi JC – I am sure this is perfect. Very well done. No trading in the hour of PCI data (which comes in at 15:30).
  For MaoRai : don’t forget about the Daylight Savings difference between Europe (the area you imply) and the USA (which designates the PCI report at 08:30).

  

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  02/14/2024 at 5:01 AM #228121
  PeterSt

  Just in case, about the Daylight Saving :

  DLS = 0 // 0 = Normal. 1 = Autumn. 2 = Spring. If Date >= 20221031 and Date <= 20221104 then DLS = 1 // Autumn. USA is one hour early. elsif Date >= 20230312 and Date <= 20230326 then DLS = 2 // Spring. USA is one hour early. endif // Justadd a group for convenience (no difficult If/Else stuff). // And the above can even be used for more history backtesting. If Date >= 20231029 and Date <= 20231105 then DLS = 1 // Autumn. USA is one hour early. elsif Date >= 20240310 and Date <= 20240331 then DLS = 2 // Spring. USA is one hour early. endif

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  DLS = 0   // 0 = Normal. 1 = Autumn. 2 = Spring.   If Date >= 20221031 and Date <= 20221104 then   DLS = 1   // Autumn. USA is one hour early. elsif Date >= 20230312 and Date <= 20230326 then   DLS = 2   // Spring. USA is one hour early. endif      // Justadd a group for convenience (no difficult If/Else stuff). // And the above can even be used for more history backtesting.   If Date >= 20231029 and Date <= 20231105 then   DLS = 1   // Autumn. USA is one hour early. elsif Date >= 20240310 and Date <= 20240331 then   DLS = 2   // Spring. USA is one hour early. endif

   

  

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  02/14/2024 at 8:04 AM #228132
  PeterSt

  PeterSt wrote:

  No trading in the hour of PCI data (which comes in at 15:30).

  No PeterSt … that is 14:30.

  

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