Currenttime / Now in a scan filter.

[Smalltalk]

I cant find a function to return current system clock time (wallclock time).
I need it to provide realtime filtering of price changes.
Example:
1)Time now is 18:00 ET.
2)A small cap stock's last candle was just before close at 16:29 ET and it change price by 10% say from $1 to $1.10 at the time.
Then there were no trades so no candles.

I want to filter in stocks which are moving in the last minute.
At 18:00 ET time i run filter and do not want the 10% to be taken at the account as obviously i look for price cnahes NOW, not 1.5 h ago.

If i simply take close - close[1] on 1 Min time frame - then for the stock example i will get the 10% forever/all night.
So it will looks like it is moving all night.
I know that i can find time for close and close(1) but i need to KNOW Current time i.e. 18:00 ET.

What i found that GetTime() in the context of a filter DOES NOT RETUN WALLCLOCK TIME - always returns 16:29 in my example - i.e. time of last candle close???
The same happens with all other time functions i tried (in the context of a scan filter at least).
None of them seem to return me ET or UTC time NOW???

Confused:::

 

[rad14733]

@Smalltalk If I'm interpreting your question correctly, you don't need a human readable time in order to determine if an equity has changed price in the last minute, you need to know if there is a difference between the current and previous 1m candles...

I'm with you on the fact that Time/Date calculations can be awkward at best... I avoid having to use them in my code at all cost, if possible... The amount of code required for most calculations requires multiple lines of code in order to extrapolate the desired results...

For your purpose it sounds as though simply using a time constraint for the calculation would resolve your issue... For example, testing for SecondsTillTime(1800) should suffice... Let us know if this won't suffice and we can explore further...