Is there a way in JForex to have a timer inside an IStrategy object. For instance, I want some code to be run every 5 seconds while the strategy is running.

Hi mikec1:

One example of this i made in one of my strategies: used to update a table every 10 secs.

private void myTableUpdate() {
        myTimer = new java.util.Timer();
        myTimerTask = new TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    updateTableContent();

                    // just to test activity - myConsole.getOut().println("testing");
                } catch (Exception e) {
                }
            }
        };
        myTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(myTimerTask, 0, 10000);
    }

Hope that helps.

Trade well and prospers in your way

JL

Thanks for the response jlongo. Timer objects execute their code in their own thread. Is the JForex code thread safe?

Hi mikec1:


JForex have implementations that are thread safe and others maybe not...
The "thread safe" depends on how you implement your code/objects...

To see more on "threading" in JForex see here.

Best regards

JL