Charting: opening hours and timezones

The Charting blade obtains information regarding opening hours and timezones from the IDN feed. This information can be rerequested regularly, and opening hours for specific objects and exchanges can be defined.

Specifying trading hours

Trading hours are specified using the following syntax:

DD[-DD] HHMM-HHMM[,HHMM-HHMM] ...

Examples

The examples below demonstrate the flexibility of trading hours syntax. They are not intended to reflect the trading hours of any particular market.

Example 1
MO-FR 0800-1630

The market is open Monday to Friday from 0800 till 1630.

Example 2
MO-FR 0800-1200,1300-1630

The market is open Monday to Friday from 0800 till 1200 and from 1300 till 1630.

Example 3
MO-TH 0800-1200,1300-1630 FR 0800-1200,1300-1600

The market is open Monday to Friday from 0800 till 1200 and from 1300 till 1630, except on Fridays when the market closes at 1600.

Configuration items

Configuration items for configuring trading hours and timezones.

info-page

The name of the symbol carrying information to request at start up.

Default value: [no default]

info-rerequest-time

Minutes after midnight local time at which to re-request trading time information. This is used in conjunction with info-rerequest-days to make sure the trading time data is up to date.

Default value: [no default]

info-rerequest-days

Day at which to re-request trading time information. This is used in conjunction with info-rerequest-time to make sure the trading time data is up to date.

Default value: [no default]

timeinfo-filename

Filename to write trading time information to. The Charting blade can write out the trading time information to memory when it shuts down. This ensures the blade does not have to wait for the relevant information to be sent from the data source every time it starts up.

Default value: [no default]

timeinfo-shutdown-write

Boolean determining whether trading time information should be written to file on shutdown.

Default value: FALSE

times-hashsize

Number of entries in the hashtable which holds trading times.

Default value: 1024

add-exchtime

Defines the opening time information for a specific exchange.

Syntax: add-exchtime <id> <timezone> <name> <suffix> <hours>

Parameter Type Default Description

id

string

[no default]

Exchange identifier

timezone

string

[no default]

Time zone of the exchange. Time zones are defined using add-timezone (see here).

name

string

[no default]

Exchange full name

suffix

string

[no default]

Exchange suffix (eg .L, .O)

hours

string

[no default]

Exchange opening hours. See Specifying trading hours

add-rictime

Defines the opening time information for a specific symbol. The entry must use the following format:

Syntax: add-rictime <name> <timezone> <hours>

Parameter Type Default Description

name

string

[no default]

Symbol.

timezone

string

[no default]

Time zone of the symbol’s exchange. Time zones are defined using add-timezone (see here).

hours

string

[no default]

Symbol’s exchange opening hours. See Specifying trading hours

add-roottime

Defines the opening time information for an exchange’s symbol root. The entry must use the following format:

Syntax: add-roottime <root> <timezone> <hours>

Parameter Type Default Description

root

string

[no default]

Root name (see also root-hashlen below).

timezone

string

[no default]

Time zone of the exchange. Time zones are defined using add-timezone (see here).

hours

string

[no default]

Exchange opening hours. See Specifying trading hours

root-hashlen

Number of characters to truncate root symbols to.

Default value: 2

add-timezone

Identifies a time zone.

Syntax: add-timezone <name> <fullname> <offset> <summer> <start> <end>

Parameter Type Default Description

name

string

[no default]

Timezone name

fullname

string

[no default]

Timezone full name

offset

[+][-]HH:MM

[no default]

Offset from GMT.

summer

[+][-]HH:MM

[no default]

Additional offset during summertime. If no summertime offset required, then the summer, start and end options may be omitted.

start

DDmmmYY HH:MM

[no default]

Summertime start (for example, "29MAR03 00.00").

end

DDmmmYY HH:MM

[no default]

Summertime end.