DAS Trader Advanced Hotkeys 16

How to time your actions coding your own scheduler

Sometimes you want to do or block a thing at a certain time of the day. How can we do that when there is no scheduler available?

Let’s calculate the time

There is a function that calculates the seconds from the midnight. We can get the actual second of the day into a variable like this:

$MYTIME=getsecond();

This will populate the $MYTIME variable with a number

You can calculate the time with an online seconds to time calculator.

Here are some times for a reference

9:30 AM - 34200

9:35 AM - 34500

10:00 AM - 36000

3:55 PM - 57300

Use cases

For practical reasons, you can store those in variables on the start of your DAS Trader program. As these are all static, you can load them just once with the following code.

$930AM=34200;
$935AM=34500;
$10AM=36000;
$355PM=57300;

Scheduled voice reminders

Personally, I used to have a voice reminder telling me to calm down for a few months. I used a utility on Windows to accomplish that. I ran it in windows scheduler. Now if I want to be reminded that it is 10 o clock, I just use this script in my Event Timer Script

if(getsecond()==$10AM)
{
Speak("10 o clock");
}

As you can see, it is very simple to schedule an action if you know the exact time you want it to happen. If you need it to repeat, it is a bit more challenging but still possible.

Block you from taking trades before or after certain time.

If your stats say that you suck at trading at a certain time of the day, this can block you from doing it.

This use case is similar to the one described before, so I assume you are familiar with calling the saved hotkeys for opening a position.