How can I make day of week boolean value on strategy Builder?

[rickyblah12]

Edit: nevermind I coded it

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rickyblah12,

A bool would be a true or a false value.

Are you wanting a true or false or are you wanting a drop-down that lets you select a day of the week?

I would recommend you create a DayOfWeek object instead as the input.

[rickyblah12]

I want to create a drop down for a variable...any variable not just day

[rickyblah12]

How do i make a condition on the strategy builder that will only fire if one condition in a group is true and not the others in that same group

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rickyblah12,

If you are not trying to create a drop-down with the days of the week, can you clarify what you mean by:
"I want to create a drop down for a variable...any variable not just day"

What do you want in the drop-down?


The strategy builder can trigger when only one group of multiple groups is true if condition groups are added with 'If Any'. However, this would not prevent the condition from triggering if the other groups are also true. Instead, you would need to explicitly code in the condition that certain conditions cannot be true.

[rickyblah12]

how would the code look like if i want something not to be true for example day of week

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rickyblah12,

In the condition builder select Time > Date series, in the center select 'Not equal', on the right select Time > Day of week.

[rickyblah12]

its still not working heres what i got vSunday is just a bool variable and sunday is a input as a bool so i can be able to toggle it on and off....I have 24 sets 4 sets for each trading day just like day only different day and different variable and input

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rickyblah12,

You are wanting to trigger an action if the day selected for an input is not Sunday?

Are you wanting a drop-down with the days of the week? (i.e. a DayOfWeek input selector)

If so, the DayOfWeek public input would need to be custom coded.

Attached is an example that prints 'Not Sunday' if the current bar is not Sunday.

[rickyblah12]

not a drop down it would look like this only selected day will make trades on

[rickyblah12]

what do u think its wrong

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rickyblah12,

Bools are not time objects that can be compared to a DayOfWeek object.

A bool is a true or false value and can only be compared with true or false.

Below is a public link to the Strategy Builder 301 course which details this.

https://youtu.be/HCyt90GAs9k

You would need to compare each bool object separately to be either true or false.

if Monday is equal to true and Time > Date series is equal to Time > DayOfWeek > Monday and my other conditions are true then do this action.

If Tuesday is equal to true and Time > Date series is equal to Time > DayOfWeek > Tuesday and my other conditions are true then do this action.

etc..

[rickyblah12]

I was using the Sunday bool as a input to trigger the day of week variable as true or false

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rickyblah12,

The code you have provided screenshots of is not showing this.

It appears you may be comparing something that is not a DateTime or DayOfWeek object to a DayOfWeek object.

A bool must be compared to a true or a false.

[rickyblah12]

This is how the strategy is...I did duplicated each set 2 more times and changed the day wheere it says wedsnday to thrusday and friday..everything works fine the only problem is when only one box is checked the others will still take trades on those days...so for some reason it only works if all 3 of the boxes are checked or 2 out of 3 are checked but when is only one boxed checked it takes trades for the rest of the days...how do i fix this