3 Fold Trading Hours Filter for EA
August 25, 2006 9:46 pmIn a previous post, I made available a small indicator that simply mentioned if you should be trading or not based on three different configurable timeframes.
In the process of changing the logic for use in an EA, I also improved on the previous indicator. You can now use hours and minutes, not just hours for the configured time frames.
The file below is not a new indicator, but is intended to be included in an EA. Its is the 3 Fold Trading Hours logic turned into a boolean function. Simply wrap all your EA logic in the call to HourlyFilter(); It returns true when the time is within your specified hours, and false when it’s not.
Pseudo code for placement in the Start() function is:
if HourlyFilter()
{
PerformEALogic();
}
else return (0);
UPDATE: There was an error in the source, which has now been fixed. Filter 3 was being checked twice, and Filter 2 was being ignored. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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