Execute function at start time

[Nargiz Ravanova]

Hello friends,

I am trying to run function at the time I need, but function ignoring the given time.

bool IsBelowMA()
{
   double Time_S = Hour() + Minute() / 100.0;
    // Ensure the function executes only after Time_Start
    if (Time_S >= Time_Start)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < numCandles; i++)
        {
            // Calculate the moving average
            maprice = iMA(Symbol(), PERIOD_M60, MaPeriod, 0, MODE_SMA, PRICE_CLOSE, i);
            
            // Check if the current candle's closing price is above the moving average
            if (iClose(Symbol(), PERIOD_M60, i) > maprice)
            {
                // If any candle's closing price is above the moving average, return false
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
    
    // If all candles are below the moving average or if the function should not execute yet, return true
    return true;
}

Can we move this topic to MQL4, this question related to MQL4?

[William Roeder]

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   We can't see your broken code.

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   We have no idea what S_Time is; only its form(HH.xxx). We have no idea what Start_Time is nor its value. We have no idea whether you are calling that function. What is that mystery PERIOD_M60? If you didn't define it, your code does not compile.
   

[Nargiz Ravanova]

Thanks  for reply.  In order do not waste your time I will not include my code. Will confuse everyone.

Basically what I need is to find 10 consecutively bars which are below or above moving average starting from 12:00, so if one candle will go above moving average this will interrupt until get 10 bars.

I tried to do with chatgpt and searched internet at end tired to find solution.

[Daniel Cioca]

 datetime time=StringToTime("12:00");
  
//---
int countup,coundwn;
if(time<TimeCurrent())
for(int i=0;i<Bars;i++)
  {
   
   double ma=iMA(_Symbol,_Period,50,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i);
;
   if(Close[i]>ma)
   countup++;
   else countup=0;
   
   if(Close[i]<ma)
   coundwn++;
   else coundwn=0;
   
   if(countup>10)
   {
   Print("TEN UP AT i=",i);
   break;
   }
   
      if(coundwn>10)
   {
   Print("TEN DWN AT i=",i);
   break;
   }
   

  }

[Marzena Maria Szmit]

Hi

in the example from danielcioca - I think there should be also some normalization for times – StringToTime uses local date (If a string contains time with no date, the execution result is a current data of a local PC with a specified time) and it might be a different day than current time, so here you should first add:

datetime TimeCurr = StringToTime(TimeToString(TimeCurrent(),TIME_MINUTES));
if(time<TimeCurr)…

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