Checking-for-Post-Market-Hours

2021-09-08T21:04:31Z - 2021-09-08T21:04:31Z ago

Is there currently a way to check if a specific DateTime is within post-market trading hours? I see that there is MarketDetails.IsPostMarket which uses the current system time, but I'm trying to detect if the post-market trading hours are nearly over.

I suppose I could manually set up an entry in the "Markets and Symbols" tool with the post-market hours, but I'd be worried I might mishandle certain days where the market closes early. If I create a copy of the "US Stocks" market, will it handle those special cases?

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Glitch8

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2021-09-08T22:14:40Z - 2021-09-08T22:14:40Z ago

Something like this should do it:

CODE:

using WealthLab.Backtest;
using System;
using WealthLab.Core;
using System.Drawing;

namespace WealthScript1 
{
    public class MyStrategy : UserStrategyBase
    {
        //Initialize
        public override void Initialize(BarHistory bars)
        {
         bool isPostMarket = IsPostMarket(bars, DateTime.Now);
         DrawHeaderText("Is Post Market? " + isPostMarket, Color.Black, 12, "Price");
        }

        //Execute
        public override void Execute(BarHistory bars, int idx)
        {
        }

      //is specified time post market?
      public bool IsPostMarket(BarHistory bars, DateTime dt)
      {
         MarketDetails mkt = bars.Market;
         dt = mkt.ConvertLocalTimeToMarketTime(dt);
         MarketHours hours = mkt.GetHoursMarketTime(dt);
         if (mkt.IsTradingDayMarketTime(dt))
            if (dt.TimeOfDay >= hours.CloseTime)
               return true;
         return false;
      }
    }
}

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