Day of Week Monday Not Working

[asimbhuta]

Hey,

Maybe someone can help me out here. I am learning nt programming by writing code for very simple strategies.

I have added at the beginning

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1

// If it's Monday, do not trade.
if (Time[0].DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday)
{
return;
}
else{ //Then check stuff and trade }

however, in strategy backtesting, it shows that trades are entered on Mondays.

My strategy is such that a position is opened on next candle (daily chart), so in the above code, no trades are entered on the Tuesday instead of Monday. So when I changed the day of the week to Sunday and then Friday, trades were still entered on the Monday.

Is there any way I can stop entering trades on Mondays?

[Harry]

Time[0] refers to your local time zone. Before you check for a Monday you need to convert your local time to exchange time. In a second step you need to determine the trading day and check whether the time is part of the trading day. Usually trades for trade date Monday are from both Sunday as Monday, as the Monday session may start on Sunday evening,

Probably the following will do what you try to achieve

if(Bars.GetTradingDayFromLocal(Time[0]).DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday)
   return;

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Asimbhuta,

Thank you for your note.

Harry's response is correct in this matter. You will want to convert your time for the bar to get the Monday day.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.