GetRemainingTradingDays

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Syntax


public static int GetRemainingTradingDays(this DateTime DateFrom)

public static int GetRemainingTradingDays(DateTime DateFrom)

Parameter Description

DateFrom

From which date

Description

This function returns the approximate number of remaining trading days in a month. For example, it is useful with Strategies that enter X market days before the end of the month and exit on Y market day of the following month.

Note that even after handling weekends properly, you're still left with business (banking/trading) holiday schedule that varies from year to year. Careful accounting for these events takes a good deal of coding. You could go two ways about it:

Devise/adapt a math formula for each such holiday and process it in run-time, or
Use something like this Holiday WebService in your code. Ideally, you would cache the request results somewhere in Wealth-Lab's global memory, disk file or local database.

Example

Strategy below buys 6 market days before the end of the month and sells 2nd market day of the following month:

Example using C# extension methods:


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using WealthLab;
using WealthLab.Indicators;

namespace WealthLab.Strategies
{
	public class EOM : WealthScript
	{
		private StrategyParameter paramNth;
		private StrategyParameter paramDaysR;
		
		public EOM()
		{
			paramNth = CreateParameter("Nth", 2, 1, 4, 1);
			paramDaysR = CreateParameter("Remaining Days", 6, 2, 8, 1);
		}
		
		protected override void Execute()
		{			
			int remaining = 0; int newMonth = -1;
			int days = paramDaysR.ValueInt;
			int Nth = paramNth.ValueInt;
			
			for(int bar = Math.Max( days, Nth ); bar < Bars.Count; bar++)
			{
				// Month has changed
				if( Datebar.Month != Datebar-1.Month ) newMonth = bar;
				// Remaining days are returned by this static method
				remaining = Datebar.GetRemainingTradingDays();
				
				if (IsLastPositionActive)
				{
					if( ( newMonth > 0 ) & ( bar == newMonth + Nth - 1 ) )
						SellAtMarket( bar, LastPosition );
				}
				else
				{
					if( remaining <= days )
						BuyAtMarket( bar, remaining.ToString() );
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

Legacy syntax example:


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using WealthLab;
using WealthLab.Indicators;
using Community.Components; /*** Requires installation of Community.Components Extension from www.wealth-lab.com > Extensions ***/

namespace WealthLab.Strategies
{
	public class EOM : WealthScript
	{
		private StrategyParameter paramNth;
		private StrategyParameter paramDaysR;
		
		public EOM()
		{
			paramNth = CreateParameter("Nth", 2, 1, 4, 1);
			paramDaysR = CreateParameter("Remaining Days", 6, 2, 8, 1);
		}
		
		protected override void Execute()
		{			
			int remaining = 0; int newMonth = -1;
			int days = paramDaysR.ValueInt;
			int Nth = paramNth.ValueInt;
			
			for(int bar = Math.Max( days, Nth ); bar < Bars.Count; bar++)
			{
				// Month has changed
				if( Datebar.Month != Datebar-1.Month ) newMonth = bar;
				// Remaining days are returned by this static method
				remaining = DateTimeFunctions.GetRemainingTradingDays( Datebar );
				
				if (IsLastPositionActive)
				{
					if( ( newMonth > 0 ) & ( bar == newMonth + Nth - 1 ) )
						SellAtMarket( bar, LastPosition );
				}
				else
				{
					if( remaining <= days )
						BuyAtMarket( bar, remaining.ToString() );
				}
			}
		}
	}
}