How Code Price of EMA at Specific Time ?

Dear FF reader... anybody can write Price of EMA at specific time into EA..

Here detail of my question :

1. Time frame 1 hour.
2. EMA 25, Price Close, Median HL2.
3. Fixed Time for EMA let say at 02.00 server.

How to code it...remember its not price of bar chart... but Price EMA line at that time ( 02.00 ) only.

Anybody know mql coding, please help... Thanks.

iBarShift() will give you the bar offset (how many bars back in the specified timeframe) that is closest to a given time (time given as POSIX timestamp, see the reference documentation for date and time functions).

Use this number returned by iBarShift() as the shift parameter in your call to iMA().

7bit... do you have sample code for it... Please upload..here.

Maybe other reader can help me, write code regarding my question in 1st post..?

Thanks...

How about

if (Hour()==2) emaprice=iOpen(Symbol(),PERIOD_H1,0);

No.

You are asking the wrong questions. If you are familiar with programming you should be able to translate the concepts into code yourself.

If you want to immediately get the EMA value of the last time it was 2 o'clock then you have multiple options, depending on what you want to do.

Each of the functions starting with a lower case "i" have a "shift" as last parameter which means the number of bars back from the current bar on the specified timeframe.

Times for the time functions are always given as POSIX timestamps, they are seconds since a fixed date in the distant past, so you can simply add and subtract multiples of 60 or 3600 to move forward and backwards in increments of minutes or hours to create new timestamps.

You could use iTime(Symbol(), PERIOD_H1, 0) and then apply TimeHour() to get the exact timestamp and hour of day of the current H1 bar, then either use that (and TimeMinute()) to construct a new timestamp for the exact moment when it was 2 o'clock or simply use the difference to the current hour of day directly as an offset (shift parameter) for the H1 bars.

If you have found your H1 bar for 2 o'clock by simply chosing an offset on the H1 chart you can use iTime() on this bar to get it's exact timestamp and iBarShift() to translate that into an offset for other timeframes.

In both cases you need to perform additional checks to rule out special cases on sunday nights after weekends.

The other option is simply let it run and wait until it is exactly 2 o'clock by checking the current time on every tick and act (store the current EMA value somewhere) only when Hour() returns 2 for the first time (store the last returned value of Hour() somewhere to act only when it actually changed).

If all the above is way over your head and you have no idea how to express such things in code then you should first learn programming simple hello world programs in easier to use languages and learn formulating algorithms and expressing them in code. Giving you only a few lines of code that you cant understand would not help you.

Either you can immediately start fishing if i tell you where the water is or you have to learn the skill of fishing first. Just asking others for grilled fish everytime you are hungry won't help you.

Anyway thanks for your reply.. Actually i'm just starting to learn mql coding past few month.

I found a simple EA that order with price breakout from fx forum. After i do research and backtest it.. I see if using EMA at specific time for filter +/- range pips..result more better.

Many EA code on forum.. mostly use indicator then applied to current price or open close bar chart for take decision...so its absolutely different with what i need...

Its price of open bar timeframe 1 hour...at 2 o'clock.

What I want is price of EMA line at 2 o'clock. Price can be above, below or maybe near of bar..

Then just use iMA() with appropriate parameters for period and type instead if iOpen() to get the value of the MA instead of the bar open price.

You should learn coding (not mql-coding) first. By coding i mean all the general concepts of how to approach problems, how to write the solutions down in a way a computer can understand, how to debug whats going wrong, how to look at the code and step through it like a computer would do.

Just about any other language is better suited than mql for this.

hey mondros..... if your running/backtesting the ea on the hour chart, unless i'm mistaken, you should be able to use Bars or Volume[0]...... such as below.....h