Understanding time

I'm having some trouble utilising the time variables.

I have triggers that open and close trades. Sometimes they close with the incorrect stake, which means they leave the trade with a larger PL on one side.

To get around this, I have created a trigger that waits a few minutes after the last matched bet, and then equalises the PL. Which works quite well in Time Machine.

The trigger above waits until
-There are no unmatched bets.
-There is at least 1 matched bet
-(now_time-bm_1_laytime) or (now_time-bm_1_backtime) is greater than 0.004

I came up with 0.004 by dumping out the times, and working out what they meant.

10:20:00 = 43487.4305563
10:25:33 = 43487.4344155

By the above, I concluded that 0.004 is about 5 mins.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work as expected.

As you can see below, the trade is executing instantaneously:

Would anyone be able to shed some light onto this, as I can't quite work out what I've done wrong?

Hi
Try:
(now_time-bm_1_laytime)/mf_minute is greater than 5

the helpfile has a section on the date and time format and time calculations but it is easier to use the variables that define a second, or a minute or an hour.

e.g. the above formula could also be:
(now_time-bm_1_laytime)/mf_second is greater than 300

There is a principal difference in these variables:
bu_1_backtime / bu_1_laytime - the time the bet was placed
bm_1_backtime / bm_1_laytime - the time the bet was matched

So it's always
bm_1_backtime >= bu_1_backtime
for the same bet.
And... it's possible the last matched bet is not the same as the last unmatched bet was!

Thanks guys

Understanding time

Hello Guest