Chart Time vs. CPU Time

[Turtle Trader]

Hello,

How do I get the date/time of the current bar when using Replay and Strategy Analyzer, and not the CPU time?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Turtle Trader,

Bar time stamps are accessed with Time[0].

Help working with DateTime objects is available here.

[Turtle Trader]

A further question.....say I have a tick or range chart, and the bars are not synched to minutes or seconds. Is there a way to know the actual chart time?

For example, say I have a 20 range chart and I want to know when the hour changes. (assuming I am using Replay or Strategy Analyzer where I need to synch to the chart time..)

I won't be able to get this from Time[0] as this is it only given on a tick basis. (On a really slow moving chart, the ticks may not be close together....)

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Time[0] gives you the time stamp of bars. It indicates when the bars complete. There's no additional historical time properties available.

[Turtle Trader]

repy

Just a further clarification...

Does Time[0] give the value of the current time tick within the bar?

That should be sufficient.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

No, it gives a date time object when the bar completed.

Bar Time Stamp
NinjaTrader stamps a bar with the closing time of the bar. For example, a minute bar with a time of 9:31:00 AM has data from 9:30:00 AM through 9:30:59 AM. Using end of bar time stamps is required in order to be able to plot multiple series of differing time frames within a single chart all accurately synchronized to time.

[sgordet]

When employing range bars and updating intrabar what is used for a time stamp until the bar completes and the completion time is known?

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

sgordet, Time[0] will refer to the most recent update of the bar.