Getting the High and Low of a Specific time range once

[Sarzie]

Hey Guys, I'm pretty new to MQL5 and I'm trying to get the high and the low ONLY ONCE from 12:30 AM to 3:30 AM and then take those values after 3:30 AM and find the next new high/low.

Any help would be much appreciated!

datetime ExtractTime(datetime when, int hours, int minutes)
{
    datetime sod = when - when % 86400; // Start of Day
    datetime endStart = sod + (hours * 3600) + (minutes * 60);
    return endStart;
}

void OnTick()
{
    int startHours = 0;
    int startMinutes = 30;
    int endHours = 3;
    int endMinutes = 30;
    datetime today = StringToTime(TimeToString(TimeCurrent(), TIME_DATE));
    int DaystoDraw = 10;

    // Extract the start time 12:30 AM
    datetime startTime = ExtractTime(today, startHours, startMinutes);

    // Extract the end time 3:30 AM
    datetime endTime = ExtractTime(today, endHours, endMinutes);

    // Calculate the number of bars between the start and end times
    datetime time = TimeCurrent();
    string hoursAndMinutes = TimeToString(time, TIME_MINUTES);

    double high;
    double low;

    
    if (StringSubstr(hoursAndMinutes, 0, 5) >= "00:30" && StringSubstr(hoursAndMinutes, 0, 5) <= "03:30")
       {
         for(int i = 0; i < DaystoDraw; i++)  
           {    
               int startIndex = iBarShift(_Symbol, PERIOD_M5, startTime, true);
               int endIndex = iBarShift(_Symbol, PERIOD_M5, endTime, true);
               int numBarsInRange = startIndex - endIndex + 1;
                      
               int filterHighs = iHighest(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,MODE_HIGH,endIndex,startIndex);
               int filterLows = iLowest(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,MODE_LOW,endIndex,startIndex);
               
               high = iHigh(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,filterHighs);
               low = iLow(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,filterLows);
               
               Print("high : ", high," low : ",low);
           }
       }
      
     double currentHigh = iHigh(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,0);
     double currentLow = iLow(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,0);
     double lastClose = iClose(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,1);
     
     if(currentHigh > high && lastClose < high)
     {
         high = currentHigh;
         Print("New High : ", high);
     }
     
     if(currentLow < low && lastClose > low)
     {
         low = currentLow;
         Print("New Low : ",low);
     }
}

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[Yashar Seyyedin]

int filterHighs = iHighest(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,MODE_HIGH,endIndex,startIndex);

The forth field is the number of bars you want to count.

So you should use:

int filterHighs = iHighest(_Symbol,PERIOD_M5,MODE_HIGH,numBarsInRange,startIndex);

[Yashar Seyyedin]

another thing is 

for(int i = 0; i < DaystoDraw; i++)  

The loop is meaningless. You are just doing the same thing over and over. And all the calculations are for today.

[Sarzie]

Yashar Seyyedin #:
another thing is 

The loop is meaningless. You are just doing the same thing over and over. And all the calculations are for today.

Yashar Seyyedin #:

The forth field is the number of bars you want to count.

So you should use:

Thanks for all your help! I got it to work :)

[arielbsd]

@sarzie can you please share the working code? I'm trying to do something similar.

[arielbsd]

Sarzie #:
Thanks for all your help! I got it to work :)

can you please share the working code? I'm trying to do something similar.