time at the close of bar plus 2 minutes in HH:mm format.

[rtwave]

people with nt,


i have been collaborating on a system to trade individual stock options automated. this system is almost finished and at the moment i am testing rolling positions over.


to this end i need to create a variable (or variables) that will take the time at the close of the current bar only, add two minutes to this time and then return this new time as a string in HH:mm format.



from other indicators i have created for nt i have this code below but i don't know if this will return the time in the desired HH:mm format and how could i add 2 minutes to this time.


= string.Format(@"{0}", DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm"));



i will greatly appreciate your assistance, i think this should be a really elementary piece of code to put together for advanced developers.



very well, regards.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello rtwave,

The Time objects in NinjaScript are C# DateTime objects so you can use any standard DateTime functions like AddMinutes : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dot...tframework-4.8

DateTime newTime = Time[0].AddMinutes(2);

Then you can format the newTime variable however you waned like you have shown with ToString.

[futurenow]

i have been collaborating on a system to trade individual stock options automated. this system is almost finished and at the moment i am testing rolling positions over.

Hello rtwave

I was reading some comments from you about algorithmic options trading, here in ninjatrader forum, in a couple threads.

I'm starting to work in the topic of how to automate options, for both, options on ETFs/stocks and mainly for options on Futures, and I would like to ask you where I can find more information about these topics, because I'm seeing most platforms doesn't come with a built and ready-to-use way to automate options and about how to make backtests/optimizations for options automated strategies.

I was reading your other post here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/1086575-automated-options-trading-strategy?p=1094963#post1094963

and there you say that "...i have posted about this system on elite trader and other public fora and will post more extensively when i have the chance.", but I couldn't find those posts in Elite Trader, so I would like to ask you to share the links of those posts from Elite Trader and the other public forums, I don't know if maybe directly in the "github discussions section" for example.

Well, in addition to what you've posted in the past in other forums, I will appreciate all the help you can provide about this topic.

Thank you in advance!