Wait 30 seconds within a candle

• 12/21/2021 at 6:18 PM #183703
  gfx

  hi gents,

  I am struggling with trying to pause my strategy for 30 seconds after signal is triggered.

  my system runs on a 2H minute TF with update on close.

  My first idea was to use a loop for next. But quite difficult to evaluate the loop size to 30 seconds. Also, quite depending on the CPU running loop.

  Does it exist a way to pause 30 seconds after the last candle closed and the ProOrder was triggered  ?

  Thks,

  gfx

  

  gfx

  Participant

  Topics: 25

  Replies: 65

  Been thanked: 5 times
  12/21/2021 at 7:01 PM #183707
  robertogozzi

  You can only achieve your goal with the help of Multi Time Frame support which enables you to use a 30-second TF as default, so that you just need to wait 1 candle after a signal is returned.

   

  

  robertogozzi

  Moderator

  Topics: 69

  Replies: 17894

  Been thanked: 4508 times
  12/28/2021 at 10:42 AM #183963
  Nicolas

  You could also use a time difference by using TIMESTAMP in any timeframe below the 30 seconds TF.

  

  Nicolas

  Keymaster

  Topics: 81

  Replies: 20901

  Been thanked: 4845 times
  01/03/2022 at 2:43 PM #184404
  gfx

  hi all,

  Happy new year to all !

  Thank you for all your answers. They are interesting option.

  On concern on my side, not in my initial post is that all occurs in a while loop …

  In a nutshell …

  x = 1

  While x < 10

  try

  pause …. a few seconds …

  x = x +1

  wend

   

  as part of a while loop I can’t rely on any candle end trigger, of any time frame. All occurs whithin a single candle trigger

  

  gfx

  Participant

  Topics: 25

  Replies: 65

  Been thanked: 5 times
  01/03/2022 at 5:32 PM #184424
  robertogozzi

  This code waits for a condition to be met on a 1-minute TF, but it wants to wait 10 seconds before entering at market. A 1-second default TF must be used to run it:

  Timeframe(1 minute,UpdateOnClose) Flag = 0 if close crosses over average[10] and not OnMarket then Flag = 1 endif if close crosses under average[10] and OnMarket then sell at Market endif set stop ploss 20 set target pprofit 60 //--------------------------------------------------- Timeframe(default) //1 second) IF Flag = 0 THEN Tally = 0 ELSE Tally = Tally + 1 IF Tally = 10 AND Not OnMarket THEN BUY 1 contract at market ENDIF ENDIF graph Flag

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

  Timeframe(1 minute,UpdateOnClose) Flag = 0 if close crosses over average[10] and not OnMarket then   Flag = 1 endif if close crosses under average[10] and OnMarket then    sell at Market endif set stop   ploss   20 set target pprofit 60 //--------------------------------------------------- Timeframe(default) //1 second) IF Flag = 0 THEN    Tally = 0 ELSE    Tally = Tally + 1    IF Tally = 10 AND Not OnMarket THEN       BUY 1 contract at market    ENDIF ENDIF graph Flag

  

  robertogozzi

  Moderator

  Topics: 69

  Replies: 17894

  Been thanked: 4508 times
  01/05/2022 at 1:57 PM #184632
  gfx

  Thks. Still it won’t work in my situation as I am still in a while loop including other conditions than time.

  A good idea though. I’ll give it some thoughts and try to adapt my code.

   

   

  

  gfx

  Participant

  Topics: 25

  Replies: 65

  Been thanked: 5 times
• Author
  Posts