Value for Sunday different for strategy and indicator

Vonasi · Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:36:18 +0000

I recently noticed that the returned value for opendayofweek and dayofweek is different in a strategy to an indicator. It returns a value of 7 in a strategy and zero in an indicator. Surely this just leads to confusion especially if for example cutting and pasting an indicator code that detects Sunday into a strategy to hard code it in or calling an indicator using a value for the day of the week? I guess changing it to be the same value now is too late as people will be running strategies and indicators based on the old values.

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04/18/2019 at 2:36 PM #96758

Vonasi

I recently noticed that the returned value for opendayofweek and dayofweek is different in a strategy to an indicator. It returns a value of 7 in a strategy and zero in an indicator.

Surely this just leads to confusion especially if for example cutting and pasting an indicator code that detects Sunday into a strategy to hard code it in or calling an indicator using a value for the day of the week?

I guess changing it to be the same value now is too late as people will be running strategies and indicators based on the old values.

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04/18/2019 at 4:24 PM #96766

Nicolas

Live with or without MTF activated with IG, or demo account?

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04/18/2019 at 6:52 PM #96774

Vonasi

IG demo.

Back test this strategy:

buy at -close limit graph opendayofweek graph dayofweek

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buy at -close limit

graph opendayofweek
graph dayofweek

..and apply this indicator:

Return opendayofweek as " opendayofweek", dayofweek as "dayofweek"

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Return opendayofweek as " opendayofweek", dayofweek as "dayofweek"

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04/18/2019 at 7:17 PM #96777

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Dax? Same with forex pairs? Sorry I can’t test now and it will help for sure. Btw, a report is already in the pipe.

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04/18/2019 at 7:27 PM #96778

Vonasi

My platform is also closed at the moment. I was originally testing on DJI but the above image was taken from EURUSD.

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04/22/2019 at 4:38 PM #96955

Nicolas

News about this is that a fix is on its way to be implemented.

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