Rectangle & Dates (NT7)

[pman777]

Hi, I am trying to draw a rectangle on the high/low of a specified date range. I want to use:

DrawRectangle(string tag, bool autoScale, DateTime startTime, double startY, DateTime endTime, double endY, Color color, Color areaColor, int areaOpacity)

How would I set the 'startTime' to 9:30 AM and the 'endTime' to 4:00 PM in the code? My session template is 24 hours and I don't want to change that, so I need to specify the times programatically.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello Pman777,

Thank you for writing in.

You would want to create and assign Datetime variables which you then pass into the Draw.Rectangle method.

Under public class MyCustomindicator: Indicator, add

private DateTime NineThirty = DateTime.Parse("9:30 AM");
private DateTime FourThirty = DateTime.Parse("4:30 PM");

Then under OnBarUpdate,

protected override void OnBarUpdate()
		{
	
			if(CurrentBar<20) return;
			Draw.Rectangle(this, @"MyCustomStrategy31 Rectangle" , false, NineThirty, Close[0], FourThirty, High[0], Brushes.CornflowerBlue, Brushes.CornflowerBlue, 0);
		
		}

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[pman777]

Mine was an NT7 question ... does answer still apply?

[pman777]

OK .. .almost got it working but the code:
private DateTime NineThirty = DateTime.Parse("9:30 AM");
private DateTime FourThirty = DateTime.Parse("4:30 PM");

sets the time variables to 2/7/20117 9:30:00 AM and 2/7/2017 4:40:00 PM respectively ... but the date is always 2/7/2017 for every session.

What I need to produce is 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM for each date of the given session ... for example:
2/7/20117 9:30:00 2/7/2017 4:40:00 PM
2/6/20117 9:30:00 2/6/2017 4:40:00 PM
2/5/20117 9:30:00 2/5/2017 4:40:00 PM
2/4/20117 9:30:00 2/4/2017 4:40:00 PM

So ... is there a way to extract only the date portion of "Time[0]" and concatenate it with 9:30:00 AM and 4:30:00 PM to get the full DateTime?

tx

[pman777]

the above comment should say "4:30" not "4:40"

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello pman777,

You could use the following,

DateTime aTime = new DateTime(Time[0].Year, Time[0].Month, Time[0].Day, 9, 30, 0).AddDays(-1);
DateTime bTime = new DateTime(Time[0].Year, Time[0].Month, Time[0].Day, 14, 30, 0).AddDays(-1);

Which would give you a day before today, at a time of 9:30am and 2:30PM, then pass these date time objects into the rectangle.

Draw.Rectangle(this, @"Rectangle1", false, aTime, Low[0], bTime, High[0], Brushes.CornflowerBlue, Brushes.CornflowerBlue, 0);

If you wanted to extract just the date from Time[0], you could use,

string timeString = Time[0].Date.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy");

To concatenate it with 9:30:00,

string timeStringa = timeString +" 09:30:00";

Then to turn the concatenated variable into a date time object which you could then pass into the Draw.Rectangle method,

DateTime cTime =DateTime.Parse(timeStringa);

Please let us know if you need further assistance.