How to find the Bar Shift Of a Historical Bar

[Mohit Marwaha]

Hi,

I know this question must be already asked earlier but i am not really able to find the proper code for the same.

I need the close price for a specific time in history. I do understand that i can get it via iClose[] function. All i need is the working code for getting bars since that time in history.

example. I need the close price for yesterday at 2pm server time for a 5 minute candle. this value will change every day.

any help is much appreciated.

[Mohamad Zulhairi Baba]

Mohit Marwaha:

Hi,

I know this question must be already asked earlier but i am not really able to find the proper code for the same.

I need the close price for a specific time in history. I do understand that i can get it via iClose[] function. All i need is the working code for getting bars since that time in history.

example. I need the close price for yesterday at 2pm server time for a 5 minute candle. this value will change every day.

any help is much appreciated.

iBarShift

[William Roeder]

1. Mohamad Zulhairi Baba:
   

   iBarShift

   There is no such iBarShift in MT5. This is Root / MT5 General section not the MQL4 section, (bottom of the Root page?)
             General rules and best pratices of the Forum. - General - MQL5 programming forum

2. Mohit Marwaha: I need the close price for yesterday at 2pm server time for a 5 minute candle.

   • Get or compute the time. You do not want yesterday, you want the last trading day.
               Find bar of the same time one day ago - Simple Trading Strategies - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum

   • Use the MT5 equivalent of iBarShift.
               Migrating from MQL4 to MQL5 - MQL5 Articles № 18

[Alain Verleyen]

whroeder1:

1. There is no such iBarShift in MT5. This is Root / MT5 General section not the MQL4 section, (bottom of the Root page?)
             General rules and best pratices of the Forum. - General - MQL5 programming forum

2. • Get or compute the time. You do not want yesterday, you want the last trading day.
               Find bar of the same time one day ago - Simple Trading Strategies - MQL4 and MetaTrader 4 - MQL4 programming forum

   • Use the MT5 equivalent of iBarShift.
               Migrating from MQL4 to MQL5 - MQL5 Articles № 18

The OP is talking about iClose[], we can suppose it's iClose() and it's mql4. So moved.

By the way, there is an iBarshift in MT5 ;-)

[William Roeder]

Alain Verleyen: By the way, there is an iBarshift in MT5 ;-)

#1 was referencing Mohamad Zulhairi Baba's post, not OP. That isn't a MT5 iBarShift, that is custom code and the text explicitly states:

But this function is not included in MQL5

Same as the code reference in the article linked #18.

IBarShift is not found in
        List of MQL5 Functions - Reference on algorithmic/automated trading language for MetaTrader 5

#2 was answering OP.

[nicholish en]

whroeder1:

#1 was referencing Mohamad Zulhairi Baba's post, not OP. That isn't a MT5 iBarShift, that is custom code and the text explicitly states:

Same as the code reference in the article linked #18.

IBarShift is not found in
        List of MQL5 Functions - Reference on algorithmic/automated trading language for MetaTrader 5

#2 was answering OP.

MQL5 is meant to be used with libraries. There are like 5 different iBarShift libs, take your pick.

[Alain Verleyen]

whroeder1:

#1 was referencing Mohamad Zulhairi Baba's post, not OP. That isn't a MT5 iBarShift, that is custom code and the text explicitly states:

Same as the code reference in the article linked #18.

IBarShift is not found in
        List of MQL5 Functions - Reference on algorithmic/automated trading language for MetaTrader 5

#2 was answering OP.

Always a pleasure to discuss with you. The OP post is about mql4 !

nicholishen is perfectly right on this. mql5 (and mql4 by the way) is not a close and static language. 

Anyway that doesn't matter.