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Gmamuze Cht INVESTOR

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Hi !

Could you help me to prevent entry orders after a certain time ?

I am searching on the forum and no issue.

I already implement Schedule.Event to close all order at a certain time and day.

Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 44).Run(() =>

            {

            	foreach (var holding in Portfolio.Values)

            	{

            		if (holding.HoldStock)

            		{

            			MarketOnCloseOrder(holding.Symbol, -holding.Quantity, tag: "Liquidate Market Close");

            		}

            	}

            });

But what i read that not prevent algo to send order after this time.

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Gmamuze Cht

14.4k ,

Hi !

I make that, it's not smart but seems to work.

if (Portfolio.Invested)

            {

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 44).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 45).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 46).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 47).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 48).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 49).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 50).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 51).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 52).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 53).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 54).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 55).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 56).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 57).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 58).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 59).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(15, 60).Run(() =>

            Schedule.Event().Every(DayOfWeek.Friday).At(16, 00).Run(() =>

            {

            	foreach (var holding in Portfolio.Values)

            	{

            		if (holding.HoldStock)

            		{

            			MarketOrder(holding.Symbol, -holding.Quantity, tag: "Liquidate Market Close");

            		}

            	}

            	

            }))))))))))))))))));

         }

Dave Mueller

2.4k ,

Hi Gmamuze:

You could declare a variable called "entryHours" which is set to False by default. You could schedule an event at whichever time you would like to start looking for entry points that changes the variable to True, and at the event where you liquidate everything, change it back to False.

Then, when you're checking for entry points, you could add a check to see if "entryHours" == "True"

Gmamuze Cht

14.4k ,

Hi Dave!

Like this way ?

https://www.quantconnect.com/forum/discussion/5941/how-to-only-request-trades-during-market-hours/p1

Gmamuze Cht

14.4k ,

https://www.quantconnect.com/forum/discussion/5941/how-to-only-request-trades-during-market-hours/p1

sorry missed to snip the link.

Jason Mark

706 ,

I primarly use Python for my algorithm development but couldn't you use the self.Time property in the OnData method. self.Time is a DateTime object. If I were trying to "prevent entry orders after a certain time". I would use

def OnData(self, data):

    if self.Time.Hour > 13:

        return;

as an example, this would prevent the code from executing if the time is past 1pm. I think Schedule.Event() calls should only be made in the Initialize() method.

Daniel Chen

17.8k ,

Hi Gmamuze and Jason,

Thank you for your posts. As Jason indicated, using Time in the OnData() method is a good way to avoid entry orders after a certain time.

 public override void OnData(Slice data)

        {

        	var certainTime = 12; // Let's say you want to avoid entry orders after 12pm

            if (Time.Hour > certainTime) {

            	return;

            }

        }

If you have further questions, please feel free to let us know.

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