Can anyone help. I want to set trading hours in Strategy from say 9am through to 5am the next day

I'm using

private boolean isValidTime(int fromHour, int fromMin, int toHour, int toMin, Integer... days) throws JFException {

long lastTickTime = history.getLastTick(instrument).getTime();
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
//you want to work with the date of the last tick - in a case you are back-testing
calendar.setTimeInMillis(lastTickTime);
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, fromHour);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, fromMin);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
long from = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

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

boolean isDayOk = (Arrays.asList(days)).contains(calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
boolean timeOk = lastTickTime > from && lastTickTime < to ;
print(String.format("calendar: %s - %s last tick: %s, isDayOk=%s, timeOk=%s",
gmtSdf.format(from), gmtSdf.format(to), gmtSdf.format(lastTickTime), isDayOk, timeOk));

return isDayOk && timeOk;

and

barTime = bidBar.getTime();
boolean isValid = isValidTime(9, 0, 23, 0, Calendar.TUESDAY,Calendar.MONDAY, Calendar.THURSDAY);
print ( gmtSdf.format(barTime) + " Is valid time? " + isValid);

If you change 23 to 6 it doesn't take any trades??

Hi jalodge,

you cant´t trade from 9 to 6 !

use this:

boolean isValid = isValidTime(6, 0, 9, 0, Calendar.TUESDAY,Calendar.MONDAY, Calendar.THURSDAY);

Thanks NiceJack...

but thats will just allow trading after 6 and before 9..

I need after 6 and before 9 not valid

This can be done with the same function by dividing the day into two periods:

boolean isValid = isValidTime(0, 0, 5, 0, Calendar.TUESDAY, Calendar.MONDAY, Calendar.THURSDAY); // night "session"
isValid = isValid || isValidTime(9, 0, 24, 0, Calendar.TUESDAY, Calendar.MONDAY, Calendar.THURSDAY); // day "session"

Great Thanks