Time Stops

[Guest]

I'm learning ES Backtesting this weekend. I get the general picture but have yet to see any reference to coding Time Stops. Profit targets and stop losses, not problems but if I want to close at a certain time, how do I do this?

I dont need to know how to test ifLong or ifShort ... Then coverShort or exitLong. I just want a test equivalent to

if time = 12:00 then strategy.coverShort(... ) ..

How do I do this?

[ACM]

One way of doing this is shown in the enclosed example
Alex

if((hour(0)*100)+minute(0) == 1200){
    Strategy.doCover(...)
} 

[Guest]

Thanks Alexis, whats the reason for multiplying hour(0) by 100?

[ACM]

It just makes it easier to write time based conditional statements and to add hours and minutes without having to worry if the minutes are less than 10
Alex