DrawLine DateTime begin DateTime End question

[Taddypole]

I want to draw a line at a certain Y value with a StartTime at the beginning of the session and ending on the current bar.

In DateTIme format, how would I characterize the start of Oil futures at the beginning of the session and the end time on the current bar? It seems tricky as after the session passes through midnight, the BeginTIme will be yesterday????

Also, I think this means that the DrawLine tag will have to have a unique string which relates to the session number and not "CurrentBar". Is there a way to do that?

regards,
taddypole...

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello taddypole,

You may want to use the "GetNextBeginEnd" to be able to get the beginning and end times of a Session so that you may draw your line.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?getnextbeginend.htm

As for the tag, if you are only going to be drawing one line per session you may want to use the "Date" or "DateTime" of the beginning or end to help with a unique identifier.

[Taddypole]

thank you JC...

I looked at this method, but it seems that at a given time if I use this method I get the "next" begin/end time. It seems I need the "Current" begin time of the current session to start my DrawLine.

Am I reading this correctly? If oil starts at 5:00 PM and I read a bar at 9:00 PM, is the "next" begin time 5:00 PM the next day or is it 5:00 PM of the current day?

[NinjaTrader_JC]

Hello Taddypole,

It would be the Current Day still. So if you checked it after the start of the Session template the Session start will be the current Session.