How to restrict trading times in a day?

[basssk]

Hello,

First of all, i apologize my English skills.

anyway, my question is same with title "how to restrict trading times in a day?"

i used things such like 'TimeDay(TIme[0]) != TimeDay(Time[1]' and 'OrdersHistoryTotal'.

BUT those aren't work very well.

if any ideas about restrict trading times, PLEASE speak to me.

Thanks.

[Osama Shaban]

The thing is not easy as you think specially when you use others code.

Ok. I will send you the whole code I used to use  and you try to solve the puzzle.

input bool        UseTimeFilter = true; 
input int             StartHour = 6;   
input int               EndHour = 18; 

bool EA_Activated;
string cTF = "";

void start(){
   ...
   ...
   ...

   if((Hour()>=StartHour && Hour()<EndHour && StartHour<EndHour) || ((Hour()>=StartHour || Hour()<EndHour) && StartHour>EndHour))
      {EA_Activated=true; cTF = "Trading Time !";}
   else
      {EA_Activated=false; cTF = "Not Trading Time !";}
   
   if(!UseTimeFilter) cTF = "Trading Time !";

   //From here, do whatever you want to do considering
   //EA_Activated is True or False.

   ...
   ...
   ...
}

[William Roeder]

I'd allow fractional hours.

#define HR2400 86400
#define SECONDS uint
SECONDS    time(datetime when=0){
      return SECONDS(when == 0 ? TimeCurrent() : when) % HR2400;               }
datetime   date(datetime when=0){
      return datetime( (when == 0 ? TimeCurrent() : when) - time(when) );      }
bool       isValidTime(SECONDS start, SECONDS end, datetime when=0){
   SECONDS now = time(when);
   return start < end ? start <= now && now < end 
                      : !isValidTime(end, start, when);
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#define HR0800 28800 // 8*3600
#define HR1345 49500 // (13*60+45)*60
if(isValidTime(HR0800, HR1345)) Print("time between 8AM and 1:45PM server time");
if(isValidTime(HR1345, HR0800)) Print("time outside 8AM and 1:45PM server time");

[basssk]

Osama Shaban:

The thing is not easy as you think specially when you use others code.

Ok. I will send you the whole code I used to use  and you try to solve the puzzle.

Thanks your elaborate comment that i never thought about.

i'm gonna use this code to solve my problem.

Have a nice day!

[basssk]

whroeder1:
I'd allow fractional hours.

As a beginner of mql4 and mql5, this code is little bit hard to understand to me so far.

but i'm sure it will be very useful to me when i totally understand.

i appreciate you comment.

Have a nice day!