Place order before candle close

AFL Programming
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Hi all
i want to place order before 5 min candle close let say 4.58 Please help me how to do this
and how to use this lastbartimeleft in real programming

appricated you help

2

Hi All
below is my code to buy and sell at before candle close
i aim to buy or sell before candle close at 2 sec before ,
running the chat at 1m time
this code sowing buy or sell signal in amibroker but not sening signal to IB
please help me to correct this code
and to generate the lof file

_SECTION_BEGIN("Price");
SetChartOptions(0,chartShowArrows|chartShowDates);
_N(Title = StrFormat("{{NAME}} - {{INTERVAL}} {{DATE}} Open %g, High %g, Low %g, Close %g (%.1f%%) {{VALUES}}", O, H, L, C, SelectedValue( ROC( C, 1 ) ) ));
Plot( C, "Close", ParamColor("Color", colorBlack ), styleNoTitle | ParamStyle("Style") | GetPriceStyle() );
_SECTION_END();
SetTradeDelays(0,0,0,0);
RequestTimedRefresh( 1 );
SetBarsRequired(200,0);
SetOption("AllowSameBarExit", True );
SetOption("HoldMinBars", 1 );
SetOption("SeparateLongShortRank", True );
PointValue = 20;
RoundLotSize = 1;
TickSize = 0.2;
TradeDelay = 0;
Buy = 1;
Sell = 1;
GraphXSpace = 5;
PositionSize = MarginDeposit = 1;

_SECTION_BEGIN("Signal Panel");


exitlong = Cross(s5d, H);
PlotShapes(exitlong * shapeNone, colorBlack,0,H,-10);
exitshort = Cross(L, s5d);
PlotShapes(exitshort * shapeNone, colorBlack,0,L,-15);

Buy = exitshort;
Sell = exitlong;

//Plot(s5d,"",colorRed,1);
//Plot(Ref(s5d,-1),"",colorYellow,1);
Plot(Ref(s5d,-1),"s5d",styleThick,styleLine);

Buy = ExRem(Buy,Sell);
Sell = ExRem(Sell,Buy);

AlertIf( Buy, "", "Buy @ " + C, 1 );
AlertIf( Sell, "", "Sell @ " + C, 2 );

for(i=BarCount-1;i>1;i--)
{
if(Buy[i] == 1)
{
entry = C[i];
sig = "Buy";
sl = s5d[i];

bars = i;
i = 0;
}
if(Sell[i] == 1)
{
sig = "Sell";
entry = C[i];
sl = s5d[i];


bars = i;
i = 0;
}
}
Offset = 20;







_SECTION_BEGIN(" Buy Sell Signal Confirm ");
BarColors =
IIf(BarsSince(Buy) < BarsSince(Sell)
AND BarsSince(Buy)!=0, colorGreen,
IIf(BarsSince(Sell) < BarsSince(Buy)
AND BarsSince(Sell)!=0,  colorRed, colorBlue));

Plot(O, "Open", BarColors,  styleNoTitle | ParamStyle("Style") | GetPriceStyle() ) ;
_SECTION_END();

_SECTION_BEGIN("Show Up Down Arrow & Price ");
shape = Buy * shapeUpArrow + Sell * shapeDownArrow;
AlertIf( Buy, "SOUND C:\\Windows\\Media\\Chord.wav", "Audio alert", 2 );
AlertIf( Sell, "SOUND C:\\Windows\\Media\\Ding.wav", "Audio alert", 2 );




Buy=Cover=Cross(C, s5d);
Sell=Short=Cross(s5d, C);





ShortPrice=SellPrice=Ref(s5d,-1);
CoverPrice =BuyPrice=Ref(s5d,-1);











_SECTION_BEGIN("Time Left");

sound = ParamToggle("Sound Alert", "ON | OFF");

function GetSecondNum()

{

Time = Now( 4 );

Seconds = int( Time % 100 );

Minutes = int( Time / 100 % 100 );

Hours = int( Time / 10000 % 100 );

SecondNum = int( Hours * 60 * 60 + Minutes * 60 + Seconds );

return SecondNum;

}

RequestTimedRefresh( 1 );

TimeFrame = Interval();

SecNumber = GetSecondNum();

Newperiod = SecNumber % TimeFrame == 0;

SecsLeft = SecNumber - int( SecNumber / TimeFrame ) * TimeFrame;

SecsToGo = TimeFrame - SecsLeft;


if ( NewPeriod )

{

GfxSelectSolidBrush( colorYellow );

GfxSelectPen( colorYellow, 2 );

if(sound)
{
Say( "New period" );
}
}


PlotTextSetFont(NumToStr(SecsToGo,1,False)+ " Sec Left", "Arial", 10, BarCount-1, Close[BarCount-1], colorred, colorDefault, -30 );


_SECTION_END(); 

ibc = GetTradingInterface("IB");
//if( ibc.IsConnected() ) // check if connection to IB was successfull


if (SecsLeft  == 2 ) {

if( LastValue( Buy) )
{
   ibc = GetTradingInterface("IB");
 //  if (buyLimit != null)
  // buyLimit.Cancel();

   if( ibc.IsConnected() )
    {
       if( ibc.GetPositionSize( Name() ) <= 0 AND NOT StrFind(ibc.GetPendingList( 1, "" ), Name())  )
       {
          ibc.PlaceOrder("NQU0-GLOBEX-FUT","BUY", 1,"MKT",LastValue(C) , 0, "Day", true );

         
        }
    }
}

//NQM9-GLOBEX-FUTt

//GTD YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS TZONE

if( LastValue( Sell ) )
{
   ibc = GetTradingInterface("IB");

     if( ibc.IsConnected() )
    {
           if( ibc.GetPositionSize( Name() ) >= 0 AND NOT StrFind(ibc.GetPendingList( 1, "" ), Name()) )
       {
         ibc.PlaceOrder("NQU0-GLOBEX-FUT","Sell", 1,"MKT",LastValue(C) , 0, "Day", true );

           

       }
    }
}



if( LastValue( Cover ) )
{
   ibc = GetTradingInterface("IB");
 //  if (buyLimit != null)
  // buyLimit.Cancel();

  if( ibc.IsConnected() )
    {
       if( ibc.GetPositionSize( Name() ) <= 0 AND NOT StrFind(ibc.GetPendingList( 1, "" ), Name()))
       {
          ibc.PlaceOrder("NQU0-GLOBEX-FUT","BUY", 1,"MKT",LastValue(C) , 0, "Day", true );

        
        }
    }
}
//NQM9-GLOBEX-FUT

if( LastValue( Short) )
{
   ibc = GetTradingInterface("IB");

     if( ibc.IsConnected() )
    {
           if( ibc.GetPositionSize( Name() ) >= 0 AND NOT StrFind(ibc.GetPendingList( 1, "" ), Name()) )
       {
        
         ibc.PlaceOrder("NQU0-GLOBEX-FUT","Sell", 1,"MKT",LastValue(C) , 0, "Day", true );

       }
    }
}
}
_SECTION_END();

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Goyal

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