I want a strategy to only trade certain times of day. I've read through the relevant part of the manual, but I'm pretty sure I don't have the code right for only trading between say 17h and 8h, but this is what I have:



Could someone help me get this correct?

Many thanks!

If you want to trade in the evening after 17h or in the morning before 8h, you need an "or" condition:

if(hour() >= 17 or hour() <=8) ...

ah, ok. thanks!

Can anyone tell me why it gives a syntax error the following:

if(hour()>=10EST and hour()<=17EST and....)

Even the following expresion gives a syntax error:

if(hour()>=10 and hour(0)<=17);

Just trying to trade at certain New York time window.

hour() returns an int, so EST has no sense here.
moreover in the second if statement, the instruction is missing: (f.i. x = 10)

if(hour()>=10 and hour(0)<=17)
X = 10;

Thank you Yosoy.