Function of "trading at certain hours" strategy

[Chee Chua]

Do you have a Function of "trading at certain hours" strategy?

I would like to test if EA works better 24hrs or during certain hours.

[Keith Watford]

There is no standard function in mql4 to do this.

You will need to write your own function.

If you have problems, post your code for your function and I  am sure that someone will help you.

[alexlearnmql]

Use hour function with if statement.

 

https://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime/hour

[ALEJANDRO GRANERA VEGA]

maybe something like this:

 

input int StartHour=0;

input int StartMinute=0;

input int EndHour=2;

input int EndMinute=0; 

 

if IsTime(StartHour,EndHour,StartMinute,EndMinute) ... open trade here 

 

 

bool IsTime (int startHour, int endHour, int startMinute, int endMinute)

{

   if (startHour < 0 || startHour > 23 || endHour < 0 || endHour > 23 ||

       startMinute < 0 || startMinute > 59 || endMinute < 0 || endMinute > 59)

       return false;

   

   int startTime = startHour*60 + startMinute;

   int endTime = endHour*60 + endMinute;

   int time = Hour()*60 + Minute();

   

   if (startTime < endTime)

      return (time >= startTime && time <= endTime);

   else if (startTime > endTime)

      return (time >= startTime || time <= endTime);

   else

      return (time == startTime);

}

[alexlearnmql]

Something like this, you just need to offset the server time on depending where you live. The hour function does work as I have used it.

 

bool tradetime;

tradetime=false;
if(Hour()>=12 && Hour()<24){
tradetime=true;}