Timeframe in screener

• 10/01/2016 at 5:00 PM #14039
  jbyrne

  Hi, Ive written some code but i want it to only look at the first 5 min candle of the current day. How can I do this?

  Thanks

  My code:

  //Bear Candle BearBody = (open - close) BearWick = (close - low) or (high - open) BearCandle = BearBody < BearWick //Bull Candle BullBody = (close - open) BullWick = (open - low) or (high - close) BullCandle = BullBody < BullWick Screener [BearCandle or BullCandle]

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  //Bear Candle BearBody = (open - close) BearWick = (close - low) or (high - open) BearCandle = BearBody < BearWick   //Bull Candle BullBody = (close - open) BullWick = (open - low) or (high - close) BullCandle = BullBody < BullWick   Screener [BearCandle or BullCandle]

   

  

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  10/02/2016 at 1:02 PM #14051
  jbyrne

  hi, im sorry if im missing something easy but i’m very new to coding with PRT so any help would be hugely appreciated, all i want to know how I can make the above code run on only the first 5 minutes of the current day 🙂

   

  

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  10/02/2016 at 2:13 PM #14053
  Nicolas

  On what timeframe do you want to launch your screener?

  

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  10/02/2016 at 2:15 PM #14054
  jbyrne

  on a 5 minute timeframe which ive done, but i only want it to run on the first candle of the day, if i run the code as it is, it just run since earliest date which i dont want.

  

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  10/02/2016 at 3:00 PM #14055
  Nicolas

  You can use intradaybarindex to know the actual candlestick number. With it you can restrain your test to the first intradaybarindex.

  

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  10/02/2016 at 4:49 PM #14064
  jbyrne

  ive added IntradayBarIndex[0] to the start of my code and it doesn’t work, the candle is the first bar of the day and therefore bar 0 if im not mistaken. If you could give me some help with the syntax when using it in a screener instead of just an indicator that would help me out alot 🙂

  

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  10/02/2016 at 6:16 PM #14068
  Nicolas

  Hmmm.. maybe a time condition would meet more the way you are thinking about your screener.

  Add a time condition (adapt it to the open time of the instrument of course):

  tcondition = time>080000 and time<081000

  1	tcondition = time>080000 and time<081000

  Your complete code would look like this:

  //Bear Candle BearBody = (open - close) BearWick = (close - low) or (high - open) BearCandle = (BearBody < BearWick) and tcondition //Bull Candle BullBody = (close - open) BullWick = (open - low) or (high - close) BullCandle = (BullBody < BullWick) and tcondition Screener [BearCandle or BullCandle]

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  //Bear Candle BearBody = (open - close) BearWick = (close - low) or (high - open) BearCandle = (BearBody < BearWick) and tcondition   //Bull Candle BullBody = (close - open) BullWick = (open - low) or (high - close) BullCandle = (BullBody < BullWick) and tcondition   Screener [BearCandle or BullCandle]

  Didn’t test it, Sunday evening coding, should work .. 🙂

   

  

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  10/02/2016 at 6:52 PM #14074
  jbyrne

  thats great thank you very much! i’ll test it tomorrow and update you if it all works 🙂

  

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