Rio » Tue May 13, 2014 3:15 am wrote:Maybe somebody has already done this, but I'm trying to determine how many bars have passed since a trade has been opened. I'm trying to think about ways of counting the bars that have passed (let's say on the M15) as opposed to finding out how many seconds old it is.

I know one way of doing it would be to get the time of the open trade from selecting it, and subtracting it from the current time. Maybe dividing the result by the time period?

double BarsAfterOpen=iBarShift(NULL,Period(),OrderOpenTime(),false);

milanese » 7 minutes ago wrote:

Rio » Tue May 13, 2014 3:15 am wrote:Maybe somebody has already done this, but I'm trying to determine how many bars have passed since a trade has been opened. I'm trying to think about ways of counting the bars that have passed (let's say on the M15) as opposed to finding out how many seconds old it is.

I know one way of doing it would be to get the time of the open trade from selecting it, and subtracting it from the current time. Maybe dividing the result by the time period?

this will give you the result:

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double BarsAfterOpen=iBarShift(NULL,Period(),OrderOpenTime(),false);

Cheers

Tommaso