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Hi,
is it possible to set the general setting for start of trading week to e.g. 22:00 UTC on sunday.
and/or start of trading day to everyday 22:00 UTC.
more or less setting an offset to the base time?
thx.
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Douglas Stridsberg
Hi,
These times are set manually for each security in the market-hours-database.json file. You could of course edit that file if you're running LEAN locally, but I'd advise against it as those hours are set for a reason.
If you can explain why you want to change the start of trading day, perhaps there's an alternative way we can propose?
Eugene
Hello Douglas,
the ticker SPX500USD from Oanda starts each day at 22pm for 23 trading hours. Weekly start is on sunday 22pm.
That is how Oanda provides its data to tradingview. So the daily and weekly bars are generated based on this starting times.
As I am using tradingview to validated my strategies, it is not possible/practical for the ticker SPX500USD (and maybe other tickers from Oanda as well) because on quantconnect the trading day starts at 0:00am.
Do you have an idea how to handle that? thx.
Douglas Stridsberg
Hey, would changing the timezone in Tradingview fix your problem? You can change the timezone in the lower right hand corner.
Eugene
Hey,
no, it doesn't change the bar calculation. I discussed that already with the TD Support. According to their support, TD is getting the start of week and start of day directly from Oanda, which is at 22pm UTC.
That leads to different values of indicators and OCHL values, which makes a visual strategy validation almost impossible.
Douglas Stridsberg
I see now what you mean, let me clarify a few things:
As far as I'm aware, there's no way to strictly control the opening and closing times of the bars. A few months ago I made public a time-zoned daily bar consolidator for LEAN which would be helpful to you if you ran LEAN locally. If you don't, you'll have to live with the discrepancy between Tradingview and QuantConnect. Starting your trading week at 22:00 UTC Sunday (midnight Moscow/Madagascar/Saudi Arabia?) seems really arbitrary.
Eugene
Thx Douglas.
At least I know now that there is no "easy" way to solve that. Trapped between systems ;)
Eugene
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