On back testing the following example is used (by using calendar option):
https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Customiz ... e_Calendar

It seem that is not working for time limit. It returne true for day of the week but always false for time ... Is there any special trick to be used for back testing?

Hi Federro:

If i understand correctly your problem, when backtesting don't get the time by new instance , but convert tick time or bar time to do the checks.
I have a similar problem when backtesting as the time returned by new instance don't is the real time of the backtesting event but your actual time.

I hope that helps.

Trade well and prospers in your way.

JL

The calendar-related examples have been fixed, the field Calendar.HOUR was replaced with Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY.

Day Trade limitation works. Time Trade limitation on backTesting always return false. Code sampe:
private boolean isValidTime(int fromHour, int fromMin, int toHour, int toMin, int mondayGO, int tuesdayGO, int wednesdayGO, int thursdayGO, int fridayGo) throws JFException {

boolean isTimeOk = false;
boolean isDayOk = false;
boolean result = false ;

int monday = 0;
int tuesday = 0;
int wednesday = 0;
int thurseday = 0;
int friday = 0;

// Data Formating for DATE CHECK
if (mondayGO == 1) {
monday = 1;
}
if (tuesdayGO == 1) {
tuesday = 2;
}
if (wednesdayGO == 1) {
wednesday = 3;
}
if (thursdayGO == 1) {
thurseday = 4;
}
if (fridayGo == 1) {
friday = 5;
}

if ( dayTime_Limit == 0){ // NO Date Time Check Needed
result = true;
print("Day Time Checking OFF");
}

if ( dayTime_Limit == 1){ // YES Date Time Check is Needed
long lastTickTime = history.getLastTick(selectedInstrument).getTime();
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(lastTickTime);
calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, fromHour);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, fromMin);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
long from = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

calendar.setTimeInMillis(lastTickTime);
calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, toHour);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, toMin);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
long to = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

print(String.format("calendar: %s - %s last tick: %s", gmtSdf.format(from), gmtSdf.format(to), gmtSdf.format(lastTickTime)));

isTimeOk = (lastTickTime > from && lastTickTime < to);
print("Day Time Checking ON");
print("IsTimeOK: " + isTimeOk);
print("LastTickTime: " + lastTickTime);
print("from: " + from);
print("to: " + to);

//Checking: Is it DAY OK for Trading?
int currentDayOfTheWeek = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
isDayOk = ((monday == currentDayOfTheWeek) || (tuesday == currentDayOfTheWeek) || (wednesday == currentDayOfTheWeek) || (thurseday == currentDayOfTheWeek) || (friday == currentDayOfTheWeek));
print("isDayOk: " + isDayOk);
print("currentDayOfTheWeek: " + currentDayOfTheWeek);

// FINAL CHECK ***********************************************************************
result = (isDayOk == true && isTimeOk == true) ;
print("result: " + result);

}

return result;

Please make the same adjustment as we mentioned in the post above.