Order Execution on a Specific Day of the Week

[gidnoa]

Hi Mike,
I'm trying to open orders at specific time and day (monday).
I tried entering DayOf(time) =2 for monday, but it seems this opens an order on the 2nd of the first month i test. I tried a loop adding 7 days, but no order triggered after the initial month ended.
How are days counted in ForexTester?
[Are they numbered from 1899 like you explained in the sticky?, then why did an order open for the 2nd,9th,16th... of the 1st month?]

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if (HourOf(time) = 8)  and (DayOf(time) =?) then
    begin ...


Any help would be appreciated!

[Terranin]

Hi Mike,
I'm trying to open orders at specific time and day (monday).
I tried entering DayOf(time) =2 for monday, but it seems this opens an order on the 2nd of the first month i test. I tried a loop adding 7 days, but no order triggered after the initial month ended.
How are days counted in ForexTester?
[Are they numbered from 1899 like you explained in the sticky?, then why did an order open for the 2nd,9th,16th... of the 1st month?]

Code: Select all

if (HourOf(time) = 8)  and (DayOf(time) =?) then
    begin ...


Any help would be appreciated!

You should use function DayOfTheWeek(time), if will return Monday = 1 ... Sunday = 7

[gidnoa]

Thanks!
Is there a place I could've seen this function?

[Terranin]

Thanks!
Is there a place I could've seen this function?

This is a standard Delphi function from DateUtils unit.