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pine-script
TH-990
TH-990

Reputation: 5

Duration of each candlestick in UNIX

How can we calculate the duration of each candle (not Session) in UNIX? For example, 86400000 for daily time frame.

I used the following code and it works well for the crypto currency market which is active 24 hours a day and seven days a week, but in the stock market it returns the session time:

interval := na(interval) ? time_close - time : interval

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

Bjorn Mistiaen
Bjorn Mistiaen

Reputation: 6905

You don't need to calculate this on every bar. You could just use this:

var int interval = time_close - time

It works in both crypto and stock markets, and returns the duration of a bar (in milliseconds) for the current timeframe.

Edit 1

This will work better I think

var float interval = na

if bar_index == 1
    interval := time - time[1]

Edit 2

//@version=4
study("Time Offset Calculation Framework - PineCoders FAQ", "", true, max_lines_count = 10)

// ———————————————————— Functions.
// ————— Converts current chart resolution into a float minutes value.
f_resInMinutes() => 
    _resInMinutes = timeframe.multiplier * (
      timeframe.isseconds ? 1. / 60             :
      timeframe.isminutes ? 1.                  :
      timeframe.isdaily   ? 60. * 24            :
      timeframe.isweekly  ? 60. * 24 * 7        :
      timeframe.ismonthly ? 60. * 24 * 30.4375  : na)

var float resInMinutes        = f_resInMinutes()
var float resInSeconds        = resInMinutes * 60
var float resInMilliSeconds   = resInSeconds * 1000

// Plot chart interval in minutes in Data Window.
plotchar(resInMinutes,      "resInMinutes",      "", location.top, size = size.tiny)
plotchar(resInSeconds,      "resInSeconds",      "", location.top, size = size.tiny)
plotchar(resInMilliSeconds, "resInMilliSeconds", "", location.top, size = size.tiny)

Source: Time Offset Calculation Framework - PineCoders FAQ

Upvotes: 1

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