Value for Sunday different for strategy and indicator

Vonasi · 2019-04-18T13:36:18+00:00

I recently noticed that the returned value for opendayofweek and dayofweek is different in a strategy to an indicator. It returns a value of 7 in a strategy and zero in an indicator. Surely this just leads to confusion especially if for example cutting and pasting an indicator code that detects Sunday into a strategy to hard code it in or calling an indicator using a value for the day of the week? I guess changing it to be the same value now is too late as people will be running strategies and indicators based on the old values.

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04/18/2019 at 2:36 PM #96758 quote

Vonasi
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I recently noticed that the returned value for opendayofweek and dayofweek is different in a strategy to an indicator. It returns a value of 7 in a strategy and zero in an indicator.

Surely this just leads to confusion especially if for example cutting and pasting an indicator code that detects Sunday into a strategy to hard code it in or calling an indicator using a value for the day of the week?

I guess changing it to be the same value now is too late as people will be running strategies and indicators based on the old values.

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04/18/2019 at 4:24 PM #96766 quote

Nicolas
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Legend

Live with or without MTF activated with IG, or demo account?

04/18/2019 at 6:52 PM #96774 quote
Vonasi
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IG demo.

Back test this strategy:
```
buy at -close limit

graph opendayofweek 
graph dayofweek
```
..and apply this indicator:
```
Return opendayofweek as " opendayofweek", dayofweek as "dayofweek"
```
04/18/2019 at 7:17 PM #96777 quote

Nicolas
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Dax? Same with forex pairs? Sorry I can’t test now and it will help for sure. Btw, a report is already in the pipe.

04/18/2019 at 7:27 PM #96778 quote

Vonasi
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My platform is also closed at the moment. I was originally testing on DJI but the above image was taken from EURUSD.

04/22/2019 at 4:38 PM #96955 quote

Nicolas
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News about this is that a fix is on its way to be implemented.

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Forum:	Platform Support: Charts, Data & Broker Setup
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Started:	04/18/2019
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