Separating Market Hours

[JeffreyBoy (Jeffrey Boyle)]

Good morning,

I am trying to find a way to separate/highlight price action into sections based on pre-market, open market and post market hours. I have tried searching this in the scripting forum assuming someone else has attempted this - there was one old post with a link by Matthew but it says the page has expired:

using LAST() for extended hours - Optuma Scripting - Optuma Community

I’d be open to vertical lines on the chart, a showbar, histogram… anything really. Can’t figure out how to script this one.

Thank you!

Jeff

[MatthewH-Optuma (Matthew Humphreys)]

Hi Jeff,

The link seems to load ok here, please give this one a try:

Marking Out of Session Bars

Hi All, The following script can be used to mark out of session bars on an intraday chart. The following example has been setup using US Equities via IQ Feed. The session times are 9.30am to 4.00pm. With the following script we can mark all bars outside of the above range as red, making them easy to identify. //Find the full bar date with intraday decimals V1 = BARDATE() ; //Find the daily bar date, without decimals V2 = ROUND(V1, DECIMALTYPE=0) ; //Reduce bar date to intraday range only V3…

There is an example script for colouring session times in / out of market there.