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currenttime or time?

Postby stonebrook2011 » 04 Jan 2012

Hi,
I want to "turn on" my auto-trading strategy right at 10AM to avoid market opening effect.Which EL command should I use? Currenttime or Time or other commands? I assume the code should look like this:

If CurrentTime (or Time) > 1000 Then Begin
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
End;


I am not sure what is the difference between Currenttime and time in EL and MC, or maybe there is better way to do this.

Thanks a lot

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Re: currenttime or time?

Postby TJ » 04 Jan 2012

Hi,
I want to "turn on" my auto-trading strategy right at 10AM to avoid market opening effect.Which EL command should I use? Currenttime or Time or other commands? I assume the code should look like this:

If CurrentTime (or Time) > 1000 Then Begin
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
End;


I am not sure what is the difference between Currenttime and time in EL and MC, or maybe there is better way to do this.

Thanks a lot
Which one to use depends on your location time zone, exchange time zone, and your chart time zone settings.


CURRENTTIME is your computer's clock time.

TIME is the chart's bar ending time.
It can be independent of the computer's clock time.


If you are in New York, trading eminis from CME in Chicago,
your computer time will be in ET,
your chart time can be set to local (ie. ET), or exchange time, which is CT.


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