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Writing Code to Operate at London Time

  • #1
  • First Post: May 13, 2010 9:17am May 13, 2010 9:17am
Can anyone tell me how to write the code that tells an EA to operate according to London Time? I believe you're supposed to figure out your broker's server time, and offset by so many hours against GMT, then add one hour for London Time. I still don't know how to write the code though. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
  • #2
  • May 13, 2010 10:16am May 13, 2010 10:16am
This code will trade on the open of the bar with the time 08 at your broker.

Now you need to figure out what time london opens on you your broker's time. There are probably a dozen way to determine this but the easiest is just to physically look at what the market watch time is when london actually opens.


Inserted Code
int Ref_Hour = 8;
int start()
{
   if (New_Bar()){
      if (TimeHour(TimeCurrent()) == Ref_Hour) {
         ........some code to trade at this time
      }
   }
}
//------------------------------------------------------+
bool New_Bar()
{
static datetime 
   New_Time=0;
//----
   if(New_Time!=Time[0]){
      New_Time=Time[0];
      return(true);
   }
//----
   return(false);
}

Just to point out, this will work on the H1 chart. If you trade less than H1 you will more instances of the hour being equal to 08 on the open of a new bar, but I am sure you get the drift. You can work minutes in the same way as the hours using TimeMinute(TimeCurrent()).
  • #3
  • Last Post: May 13, 2010 10:46am May 13, 2010 10:46am
Quoting ecTrade
Can anyone tell me how to write the code that tells an EA to operate according to London Time? I believe you're supposed to figure out your broker's server time, and offset by so many hours against GMT, then add one hour for London Time. I still don't know how to write the code though. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
What broker(s) do you use?

I have an entire suite of date/time functions that will automatically convert times between timezones, including handling DST. No need to worry about offsets from GMT.
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