Open Trade at Specific Dates of Years
Hello MLQ4 Community,
I try to develop an Expert that needs to open, for testing purposes, buys and sells operations at specific dates of years.
This is the codes I know to open at specific hour every day; but not apply for the purposes, because not always needs to open operations during the week.
void HF1()
{int datetime1 = TimeLocal();
int hour0 = TimeHour(datetime1);
int minute0 = TimeMinute(datetime1);
if (hour0 == OpenHour && minute0 == OpenMinute)
below is an example of format date that I have.
| 2011.09.02 8:30 |
| 2011.08.05 8:30 |
| 2011.07.08 8:30 |
| 2011.06.03 8:30 |
| 2011.05.06 8:30 |
| 2011.04.01 8:30 |
| 2010.11.05 8:30 |
| 2010.10.08 8:30 |
| 2010.09.03 8:30 |
| 2010.08.06 8:30 |
| 2010.07.02 8:30 |
| 2010.06.04 8:30 |
| 2010.05.07 8:30 |
| 2010.04.02 8:30 |
| 2008.10.03 8:30 |
| 2008.09.05 8:30 |
| 2008.08.01 8:30 |
| 2008.07.03 8:30 |
| 2008.06.06 8:30 |
| 2008.05.02 8:30 |
| 2008.04.04 8:30 |
| 2007.11.02 8:30 |
| 2007.10.05 8:30 |
| 2007.09.07 8:30 |
| 2007.08.03 8:30 |
| 2007.07.06 8:30 |
| 2007.06.01 8:30 |
| 2007.05.04 8:30 |
| 2011.03.04 9:30 |
| 2011.02.04 9:30 |
I will appreciate any help.
Thanks.
paulsom,
In General you should code the following:
1. Save trade date and time data into an array.
2. Complete a while loop to evaluate the current date and time against the array.
3. If match then perform the trade function.
paulsom,
In General you should code the following:
1. Save trade date and time data into an array.
2. Complete a while loop to evaluate the current date and time against the array.
3. If match then perform the trade function.
too complicated can be easier done.......
from a beginning coder here, but I'm kind of copy my EA around to get what i wanted... You can simply void out the date u don't want to trade,
just put it before order send function.
link to "day of year" calendar: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/neubrew/Calendar.jsp
you might spend half an hour adding the correct DayofYear, but each year is different anyway, so it doesn't hurt to know how.
https://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime/DayOfYear
The code below is from my EA, I only trade on specific day for the purpose of specific news; code filter out days in Jan 2013.
// stop trading on the following DayofYear, EA will trade any days that are not listed below. if(DayOfYear()==1 || DayOfYear()==2 || DayOfYear()==3 || DayOfYear()==7 || DayOfYear()==8 || DayOfYear()==9 || DayOfYear()==10 || DayOfYear()==11 || DayOfYear()==14 || DayOfYear()==18 || DayOfYear()==21|| DayOfYear()==22 || DayOfYear()==23 || DayOfYear()==25 || DayOfYear()==2 || DayOfYear()==29) return(true);
// does not trade Mon & Fri. if(DayOfWeek()==1 || DayOfWeek()==5) return(0);
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Hello MLQ4 Community,
I try to develop an Expert that needs to open, for testing purposes, buys and sells operations at specific dates of years.
This is the codes I know to open at specific hour every day; but not apply for the purposes, because not always needs to open operations during the week.
void HF1()
{int datetime1 = TimeLocal();
int hour0 = TimeHour(datetime1);
int minute0 = TimeMinute(datetime1);
if (hour0 == OpenHour && minute0 == OpenMinute)
below is an example of format date that I have.
I will appreciate any help.
Thanks.