Counting Number of Trading Days in a Month

[ketoma21]

Hello

I'm trying to count the number of trading days in a month in any intraday interval

Here is what I came up with and I THINK it's working

var nCount = 1;
var vTemp2 = 0;


for(var i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
vTemp = day(-i, inv("D") );
if (vTemp < vTemp2) {
nCount++;
} else {
tDays = nCount;
nCount = 1;
}
vTemp2 = vTemp;
}

tDays is the number of trading days, I have a feeling there is a BETTER way of doing this.

Thank you

Ketoma

[ACM]

Re: Counting Number of Trading Days in a Month

Ketoma
Another way of doing what you are trying to accomplish is to create a separate function which you run in the context of the daily interval by calling it using efsInternal() and passing to it [as the last parameter] the daily interval through the inv() function (see the EFS KnowledgeBase for the description and syntax of the functions and also search the forums for examples).
In this function you would set your counter (in the example below nCount which needs to be a global variable) to 1 at the beginning of each month and increment it by 1 on each new bar eg
if(getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR){
if(month(0)!=month(-1)) nCount = 1; else nCount++;
}
Then in the function you would return nCount which represents the current count of the daily bars in the month
Alex

Originally posted by ketoma21
Hello

I'm trying to count the number of trading days in a month in any intraday interval

Here is what I came up with and I THINK it's working

var nCount = 1;
var vTemp2 = 0;


for(var i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
vTemp = day(-i, inv("D") );
if (vTemp < vTemp2) {
nCount++;
} else {
tDays = nCount;
nCount = 1;
}
vTemp2 = vTemp;
}

tDays is the number of trading days, I have a feeling there is a BETTER way of doing this.

Thank you

Ketoma

[ketoma21]

Thank you very much Alexis

I think your way is a better way I will give it a try

Thank you again

Ketoma

[ACM]

Ketoma
You are most welcome
Alex

Originally posted by ketoma21
Thank you very much Alexis

I think your way is a better way I will give it a try

Thank you again

Ketoma