Get Aggregation period

[rvaidyamath]

Hello there

let us say .. i need a signal to come when the aggregation period as per the clock (time of the day) is done properly . .ex., if i need a signal to come when at each 5 minute... i need the signal to show up at beginning of hh:6:00, hh:11:00, hh:16 and so on .. this could be any hour of the day … how do i get this .. The following script is what I am attempting, but it is not going as well as I had hoped.

#Code :
input givenMinute = 5;

def currentTime = GetTime();
AddLabel(yes, "Current Time: " + AsText(currentTime), Color.CYAN);
def currentMinute = Floor(currentTime / (1000 * 60));
AddLabel(yes, "Current Minute: " + AsText(currentMinute), Color.CYAN);
def remainder = currentMinute % givenMinute;
AddLabel(remainder == 0, "Remainder is a complete period: " + AsText(remainder), Color.CYAN);
AddLabel(remainder != 0, "Incomplete period: " + AsText(remainder), Color.YELLOW);

def currentHour = Floor(currentTime / (1000 * 60 * 60));
def currentMinuteInHour = Floor((currentTime - (currentHour * 60 * 60 * 1000)) / (1000 * 60));
def currentSecondInMinute = Floor((currentTime - (currentHour * 60 * 60 * 1000) - (currentMinuteInHour * 60 * 1000)) / 1000);

AddLabel(1, "Current Time: " + AsText(currentHour) + ":" + AsText(currentMinuteInHour) + ":" + AsText(currentSecondInMinute), Color.GRAY);

#code End - Appreciate the help

 

[halcyonguy]

Hello there

let us say .. i need a signal to come when the aggregation period as per the clock (time of the day) is done properly . .ex., if i need a signal to come when at each 5 minute... i need the signal to show up at beginning of hh:6:00, hh:11:00, hh:16 and so on .. this could be any hour of the day … how do i get this .. The following script is what I am attempting, but it is not going as well as I had hoped.

#Code :
input givenMinute = 5;

def currentTime = GetTime();
AddLabel(yes, "Current Time: " + AsText(currentTime), Color.CYAN);
def currentMinute = Floor(currentTime / (1000 * 60));
AddLabel(yes, "Current Minute: " + AsText(currentMinute), Color.CYAN);
def remainder = currentMinute % givenMinute;
AddLabel(remainder == 0, "Remainder is a complete period: " + AsText(remainder), Color.CYAN);
AddLabel(remainder != 0, "Incomplete period: " + AsText(remainder), Color.YELLOW);

def currentHour = Floor(currentTime / (1000 * 60 * 60));
def currentMinuteInHour = Floor((currentTime - (currentHour * 60 * 60 * 1000)) / (1000 * 60));
def currentSecondInMinute = Floor((currentTime - (currentHour * 60 * 60 * 1000) - (currentMinuteInHour * 60 * 1000)) / 1000);

AddLabel(1, "Current Time: " + AsText(currentHour) + ":" + AsText(currentMinuteInHour) + ":" + AsText(currentSecondInMinute), Color.GRAY);

#code End - Appreciate the help

sorry, not sure what you want.
what do you want to see on the chart.
what does 5 minutes have to do with 4 hour time periods?

labels only appear if the condition is true on the last bar.

smallest time on a time chart is minute, so calculating seconds is pointless.

 

[rvaidyamath]

sorry, not sure what you want.
what do you want to see on the chart.
what does 5 minutes have to do with 4 hour time periods?

labels only appear if the condition is true on the last bar.

smallest time on a time chart is minute, so calculating seconds is pointless.

I am looking for the clock hours ; let us say i want this for 5 minutes; candle to come 5th , 10, 15th, 20th, and so on .. not the last 5 minutes or so...

 

[halcyonguy]

I am looking for the clock hours ; let us say i want this for 5 minutes; candle to come 5th , 10, 15th, 20th, and so on .. not the last 5 minutes or so...

sorry, still have no idea what you are asking for. you didn't answer my questions.
5th, 10th,.. of what ? don't know what this means.

do you want bubbles that display the hour of a bar, on every 5th bar of a day?

stare at a chart, pretend you can see what you want, and describe it

 

[rvaidyamath]

ex., i need an alert every aggregation period of 5 minutes; ema 3 crosses ema 10 ; if my aggregation period is 5 minutes. i want to be in the trade after the completion of the 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and so on for the clock hours..... in thinkscript; it gets triggered if that condition is true from prior 5 minutes that can happen any period of the day... but i need this as per the clock hours aggregation ; hope this helps

 

[mashume]

ThinkScript triggers trades at the CLOSE of the bar, if you have your condition set to use the CLOSE price. It is a dangerous game and not recommended to use the current price (rather than the close of the previous bar) to do back testing as it tends to repaint. There are myriad discussions of repainting around here. Trying to use the cross of 2 emas inside the current bar to signal a buy or sell is one of those repainting situations where, should the price change before the close of the bar, the cross would not have happened and therefore your entry conditions are invalidated but you're already in a trade.

As for the alert at the end of 5 minute blocks, so that you would get an alert at 10:00, 10:05, 10:10, etc... the standard 5 minute aggregation period is locked to these increments -- that is, it is NOT the last 5 minutes from whatever point you are at in the day. There are ways to get the last 5 minutes as a rolling window, but they are convoluted and counter to your intents at any rate.

Again, as @halcyonguy says, we're grasping at straws here trying to sort out what exactly you're looking for.

-mashume