Include time limit in backtesting strategy?

[blindsquirrel]

The documentation on time and date functions in thinkscript is pretty thin.

What I need is to limit my strategies trades to Mon-Fri, 8:30 - 3:00 pm (future's market day session).

• No trades should open before 8:30.
• All positions should flatten at 5 min before 3:00.

Looking at example scripts that use time, I attempted implementing some code:

# Flatten is true if we're 5 min or less from end of futures trading
def startTime = 0830;;
def lastFiveMinuteBar = 1455;
def endOfTradingTime = 1500;

def flatten = (GetTime() >= lastFiveMinuteBar AND GetTime() < endOfTradingTime);

But, it doesn't seem to be working.

Is there a way to get human readable time formatting from the GetTime() function?

Any help is appreciated.

 

[bronco33]

I am looking for a MA that only plots regular hour data on a chart that shows pre and post market data. I like to see premarket activity pre open but dont want MA's showing pre-market MA activity. Can this be done?