Question about Daily Highs and Lows

[Yellowbeard1881]

Is there a way to get the day, ( Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday ) of a previous daily candle?  Able to get date and time.  Trying to figure out the day.

Thanks!

[Marco vd Heijden]

Yes;

Try TimeDayOfWeek(); and iTime(...

[Yellowbeard1881]

I use iTime to find date and time.  But as far as DayOfWeek() goes, it only seems to work for the current candle.

Thanks!

[Marco vd Heijden]

int Day=TimeDayOfWeek(iTime(_Symbol,_Period,bar));

Bar number specifies the candle so bar 0 is current candle, bar 1 is last Day (if PERIOD_D1) and etc.

TimeDayOfWeek() not DayOfWeek() that is another function...

Alternatively you could use:

struct MqlDateTime 
  { 
   int year;           // Year 
   int mon;            // Month 
   int day;            // Day 
   int hour;           // Hour 
   int min;            // Minutes 
   int sec;            // Seconds 
   int day_of_week;    // Day of week (0-Sunday, 1-Monday, ... ,6-Saturday) 
   int day_of_year;    // Day number of the year (January 1st is assigned the number value of zero) 
  };

See Here and Here

[Yellowbeard1881]

TimeDayOfWeek(), works.  

 int DT = TimeDayOfWeek(dT);
     
   switch(DT)  //  
     {
      case 1: f="MONDAY";    break;
      case 2: f="TUESDAY";   break;
      case 3: f="WEDNESDAY"; break;
      case 4: f="THURSDAY";  break;
      case 5: f="FRIDAY";    break;
      case 6: f="SATURDAY";  break;
      case 0: f="SUNDAY";    break;
     }

[Yellowbeard1881]

Thank You!

[Marco vd Heijden]

The other function is actually MQL5 

So you can spot the small differences between.

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
//| Returns the name of the day of the week                          | 
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
string DayOfWeek(const datetime time) 
  { 
   MqlDateTime dt; 
   string day=""; 
   TimeToStruct(time,dt); 
   switch(dt.day_of_week) 
     { 
      case 0: day=EnumToString(SUNDAY); 
      break; 
      case 1: day=EnumToString(MONDAY); 
      break; 
      case 2: day=EnumToString(TUESDAY); 
      break; 
      case 3: day=EnumToString(WEDNESDAY); 
      break; 
      case 4: day=EnumToString(THURSDAY); 
      break; 
      case 5: day=EnumToString(FRIDAY); 
      break;    
      default:day=EnumToString(SATURDAY); 
      break; 
     } 
//--- 
   return day; 
  } 

If you add this i think it should work on MQL4 too.