Trading Time Filter Programming Tutorial for MetaTrader 5 | mql5 Coding Lesson

[@ReneBalke]

Source Code: input int TimeStartHour = 7; input int TimeStartMin = 10; input int TimeEndHour = 15; input int TimeEndMin = 10; void OnTick(){ MqlDateTime structTime; TimeCurrent(structTime); structTime.sec = 0; structTime.hour = TimeStartHour; structTime.min = TimeStartMin; datetime timeStart = StructToTime(structTime); structTime.hour = TimeEndHour; structTime.min = TimeEndMin; datetime timeEnd = StructToTime(structTime); bool isTime = TimeCurrent() >= timeStart && TimeCurrent() < timeEnd; Comment(" Server Time: ",TimeCurrent(), " Time Start Dt: ",timeStart, " Time End Dt: ",timeEnd, " Time Filter: ",isTime); }

[@ramni89ramni]

Hi please i need your help the robor not work when my pc is offline what can I do...? Or is must be always online ..? Thank you brother

[@ReneBalke]

@@ramni89ramni Yes. The PC (and the MetaTrader) has to run all the time. A lot of trader use a VPS. Check out my last video where I show how to setup a VPS.

[@kajinguludan5886]

Hi, I wanted to ask, how do i extract the importance using mqlcalendarevent and use it in another if statement? kindly help? i want to filter the importance

[@tradelicious8819]

Hey Rene, i'm trying to add time filter to my existing EMA strategy. It gives me "OnTick" -function already defined and has body. When i deletes or moves it it gives so many other errors. Please help

[@erickkillian5590]

Thank you very much for this! However, when I add this code to my existing EA, I get an "OnTick" function already exists. How/Where do I add this time filter source so that it will take the entries based on my EA? Thank you.

[@YoussufOthman]

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[@fulkrumfx]

Thank you for taking my suggestion!

[@philtradinglune5297]

will be thankful for having tutorial about setting news filter to disable the ea for certain news or times before and after

[@haydenlyon6056]

I swear your making videos just after i finish struggling through them! I suppose next youll be writing a news filter! Lol. Love the work! Any new coder that finds your videos probably doesnt know the value of what your sharing!

[@shadowwarsshadypeople6299]

Thank you, you just helped me tremendously. I had to swtich from Ctrader to MT5 due to the new Ctrader update, and been working on fitting the code to MT5, but time restriction I was using was not working. Thanks again :)

[@markonis100]

This content is really helpful. I already implement a time filter in my EA but your method is different. I love how your content is expand the viewer's knowledge.

[@erickkillian5590]

Can you share your script for the time filter in your EA, please? I am using this one, and I can't seem to place it in the right location? Maybe just share where in the script you are placing your time filter at? Thank you.

[@bitestonk0618]

bedanya kalau penyaring waktu dipakai dalam OnTick() dan OnTimer apa ?

[@markonis100]

@@bitestonk0618 Saya gak pernah pakai OnTimer, Om. Kebetulan saya belajar coding EA baru 6 bulan-an dan belum pernah pakai OnTimer. Kalau di OnTick, time filternya dicek setiap tick baru (setiap ada pergerakan harga sekecil apapun).

[@bitestonk0618]

@@markonis100 boleh share pakainya dimana?

[@philippedecamp7558]

Great !! Thank You René ! So simple when we follow you.

[@steveg4051]

Excellent as all of your tutorials are. I think with this look at accessing time i might be able to get a news filter going. Am looking forward to getting some profit banked to then invest time and money on your course.

[@amirhosseinghavi30]

Excellent tutorial. learned a lot.🙏🙏

[@jovidwaakzaam1865]

very nice,in my oppinion a daytime filter is handy if you wanna avoid like the nfp or maybe certain high impact news on certain days

[@Kariboo925]

Hi Rene for my part, I prefer to use datetime type input. It is easier for backtest optimizations. You have starttime & stoptime on the same 3D graph Great work anyway.

[@kisuulegodwin]

Hello Rene I have learnt alot in your teaching, loved it so much . Though am kindly requesting you to do a video on neural network tradebot in mql5

[@MrHumbleOne]

A great video as usual, I wonder if I should put this in a custom function and store the results as a defined variable rather than have all the code in my on tick function, I have lots of calculations that’s are called and wonder if I should build outside of the OnTick function

[@rideyourlife1418]

Thank you! Your tutorial is really helpful!

[@farbeyondtrading]

p.s. I love your videos!! Thanks for teaching us, and letting us enjoy your accent :)

[@ReneBalke]

:D

[@lukageldenhuys]

Thanks, René! How would you go about if the start time is "later" than the end time? E.g., start at 02:00 and end at 18:00 the next day. TIA.

[@fearwin]

Hi , is it this filter and variable set up must be put inside OnTick? which machine would do everytime a tick come and waste lot of CPU resources. Can it be put on say OnInit()? so the machine only declare the variable once and the filter then put in OnTick?

[@andrasgosztola9615]

Nice tutorial !! Maybe in the can you make a "partial close at a custom distance" tutorial. A tried to create one, but something not working very well Thanks

[@erickkillian5590]

He has a "partial close" video.. Here is the link, I hope that it helps kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWHUmWeHrr2Yj5Y

[@andrasgosztola9615]

@@erickkillian5590 Thank you

[@leonardoampuero723]

I am a bit confused with timezone. I want to set trading hours to NY sessions. but it seems that metatrader is using GMT+3, any idea how to set this to make the strategy tester work accordingly?

[@andymukotekwa9656]

Hey rene I've been trying to create a time based execution EA which executes trades based on the input of time of my choice up to the second, has inbuilt SL AND TP and allows me to select whether i want to enter a buy trade or a sell, the code I have has no errors but is not executing trades., can yu help

[@Jaypipin]

Hello Rene, nice material! So i have an issue with EA in that one broker starts day 0.00 gmt then another -2.00 gmt so could be sunday 22.00 Now broker B which starts Sunday creates issues. Such as indicator will use sunday data could be 2 hrs for monday support /res lines. This is a mistake. It should use friday data. So if your video about this issue? Also for backtesting, say i want my 4hr indicator using SR lines, to start 22.00 server time not their 0.00 so -2 hrs.

[@nesmill99]

Hey Rene, Love your content you are very clear and straight forward and funny as well xd Could you show please how to create a countdown of the time left for the current candle to close, I have been trying to get that working for a few days and nothing.

[@ReneBalke]

Thank you :) I think you will find a lot of solutions for this if you google it. this is a really common program for mt5 :)

[@Joerg63]

Hi Rene, thanks for your great explanation and besides you are doing a fantastic job. Now to my question. I`ve tried to implement the Time Filter to the Supertrend Expert you also wrote and explaned. I placed the Time filter right under the "void onTick(){" and it shows the right time statement like true or false when I start the strategy tester, but the advisor didn`t recognize the choosed time filter in the program, means he will open and close the position when a signal appears no matter what time it is. I suppose there is an additional loop in the main Program? please advise and thanks ...dickes Danke aus Bielefeld

[@glauberpcp1]

how can i set this at the dark point ea?

[@TheJoshuamcgowan]

You’re awesome ❤

[@nabilnakiri-w6d]

hello how I set time Gmt-4

[@Fggghijub]

Excellent🙏

[@mwa5330]

Can we add multiple set of trading time?

[@christianalegria6132]

hello what code do you use to hightlight this filtered time. thank you

[@nilsmueller81]

Hi Rene. That was really helpfull for me. Can only use hours and minutes? Or can i take the hole date + Time?

[@ReneBalke]

Hey, you could also use a specific point in time. The easiest way would be using a datetime input straight away I think.

[@mwa5330]

Time filter not work, I pasted this my heiken ashi but not working

[@supermarketfx]

Is there a way to change this to prevent any trades open during news events? I want to be able to prevent any EA on MT5 from trading during an upcoming news event.

[@ReneBalke]

Yes you could use the mt5 calendar api for example

[@acky88888888]

Can we have the input like "input datetime TimeStart = 15:00;" but without the date?

[@ReneBalke]

No in this case you have to use a string input.

[@relaxingmood3210]

Can you create EA that trade only divergence on anytime frame like 30 mins, 1hrs...

[@pbayat6667]

Thanks 🙏

[@JasonHothamMBA]

This is great thanks! I know I should probably look around but the time shown doesn't show my machine time (actually time). I'm in the UK and the time shown in MT5 is 1 hour behind, and the server time is 2 hours ahead. What code could I add to show my machine time please?

[@ReneBalke]

You can use TimeLocal()

[@JasonHothamMBA]

@@ReneBalke great thanks!

[@juniorivvypr7932]

rene please where should i put this code.. it seems if i put on "OnTick" function it doesnt filter when i run the tester

[@ReneBalke]

Hey, yes. You can check the time filter before you open a position.

[@yagneshacharya2461]

i want that my pending order will expire after 1 minute , pleasse help me out

[@rickscreations3159]

There is an error in your code : if the user sets StartTimeHour = 21 StartTimeMin = 0 EndTimeHour = 9 EndTimemin = 0. because the user wants to trade after NYC is finished and trade the AUD and ASIA Market time. your Time filter will not run. it will think that it is going from. 21pm -9am. ON the same day. your Code has no consideration for Midnight. you should update this.

[@kroedis]

How would you fix that

[@cwleo1]

Great tutorial. But I guess this algorithm doesn't cater for trading period that span across midnight of the broker's timezone. e.g. TimeStartHour = 21 (9pm today) and TimeEndHour = 4 (4am tomorrow). For such scenarios, this equation will never return true. bool isTime = TimeCurrent() >= timeStart && TimeCurrent() < timeEnd;

[@kroedis]

How do we fix that

[@alexanderwening8959]

thx :-*

[@growmybusinessonline5711]

Hi Rene excellent thank you very useful video ! May I please ask - building on this time filter how can you draw a colored box around that filtered time period. All prior day boxes remain and do not get deleted so you can see that time filter each day eg DAX 8am to 10am box or rectangle

[@ReneBalke]

You can learn it in my course: en.bmtrading.de/mt5-masterclass/