How to find Time frame of current chart

[elektor]

Hi,

Is there a function to get the time frame of the current chart in string format?

 Regards 

[Andriy Moraru]

No, but there are only 21 different timeframes, so you could write your own function that would return string values.

[elektor]

enivid:
No, but there are only 21 different timeframes, so you could write your own function that would return string values.

But I would need some function which could atleast return a symbolic representation of the time frame so that I can use it to return. Is there a function which can do this?

I see the enumeration ENUM_TIMEFRAMES, is there some way to use this?

Regards 

[Amir Yacoby]

elektor:

But I would need some function which could atleast return a symbolic representation of the time frame so that I can use it to return. Is there a function which can do this?

I see the enumeration ENUM_TIMEFRAMES, is there some way to use this?

Regards 

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/check/period

[elektor]

amir_avatar:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/check/period

 

Thanks Amir,

I ran the code over the 5minute time frame versus a 1Hour time frame. I correctly got the 5 in the 5 min Time frame but I get 16385 when I run it over the 1 hour timeframe. How is this to be interpreted?

[Andriy Moraru]

elektor:

Thanks Amir,

I ran the code over the 5minute time frame versus a 1Hour time frame. I correctly got the 5 in the 5 min Time frame but I get 16385 when I run it over the 1 hour timeframe. How is this to be interpreted?

Are you trying to Print() it? Try doing it this way:

if (Period() == PERIOD_H1) Print("1 hour");

[zivie]

You could check out

int PeriodSeconds(PERIOD_CURRENT) /it returns the timeframe in seconds and you can convert from there/

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/common/periodseconds

[William Roeder]

EnumToString
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