how to get seconds/minutes passed after bar start?

[ttodua]

I thought Time[0] would give me i.e. 09:47:31 (hour,minute,second) on the last, realtime bar.


when on realtime chart (lets say, 5 min), i thought:

Time[0]-Time[1] would give i.e. 2 mins, if 2 minutes is passed after bar start. however it doesnt do that.


how to get current minutes passed after the last bar started?
Probably with datetimes, but a i say, i cant make it work.

[ttodua]

Found one solution for only LIVE-BAR - DateTime.Now.

however, that doesnt work in backtesting.. for example, when TickReplay is, i cant still get current H:M:S of execution on that tick. Time[0] always returns such time:

09:35:00
09:40:00
....etc

[NinjaTrader_JoshG]

Hello,

Thanks for your post.

Instead of Time[0]-Time[1] To get the time since the last bar started in OnBarUpdate() you would compare the times you mentioned similar to the snippet below:

Time[0].Subtract(Time[1])

The following help guide article will go into further detail on the DateTime object.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx

If you have any further questions please let me know.

[ttodua]

Time[0].Subtract(Time[1]) even returns the same value as `Time[0]-Time[1]`.

The only solution seems (but not in simple backtesting) DateTime.Now - Time[1], but this works only in LIVE data (or Market Replay).

Also, i am trying to solve the problem with granularity/ intrabar orders, but in backtesting, i have some problems at this moment.
However, thanks for help!

[koganam]

Time[0].Subtract(Time[1]) even returns the same value as `Time[0]-Time[1]`.

The only solution seems (but not in simple backtesting) DateTime.Now - Time[1], but this works only in LIVE data (or Market Replay).

Also, i am trying to solve the problem with granularity/ intrabar orders, but in backtesting, i have some problems at this moment.
However, thanks for help!

The only way to get intrabar granularity access in NT7 is to use a secondary price series. I always use 1-second, but there are those that insist that one must use 1-tick.