FirstBarOfSession value?

[Jellybean]

Hi

I have a strategy that starts when it sees the first bar of the session, as indicated by Bars.FirstBarOfSession, and looks for a condition in the first 10 minutes of the session. After that the strategy does no more.
I need to understand what the value of Bars.FirstBarOfSession is in the following unusual situation because my strategy started unexpectedly.

Situation:
My strategy is started before the session start, so it waits as expected.
The PC (laptop) goes into hibernation before the session starts (so no data is obtained).
The user wakes up the laptop several hours after the session starts.
My strategy starts as though the current baris the first bar, even though the time is many bars after the session start.

Perhaps I need to also check the bar time to prevent this late start in circumstances like this - please confirm.

Regards
Tony

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi Tony, that's a correct a time filter would prevented this action - did the user reload historical data before the strategy was started then after the hibernation period?

If there was no data, it would treat the first live seen bar then as it's first bar correctly triggering the logic.

[Jellybean]

Thank you for clarifying that, Bertrand.

For safety, I need my program to be fool-proof for when unforeseen things happen. I'll go with the bar time check against the session start time.

Regards
Tony