HhmmSs >= x and <= y bit, just with my own numbers. but does anyone actually check what timezone that clock is in before writing the numbers, or do you just eyeball it for a week and adjust? i've fat fingered this kind of thing before and quietly traded a window that was 8 hours off what i meant.
2. the sell side is where i'm stuck. the article's version has a hard time-of-day exit plus a profit/loss/holdtime combo. for me there's no hard time of day that makes sense, so the only thing left is HoldTime. which means HoldTime stops being a backstop and becomes the actual main exit, and that feels different somehow? like in the stocks version the clock catches the trades that just sat there doing nothing. in mine the clock IS the plan.
is that fine or am i missing a better way to say "this idea has an expiry date" in a 24h market? curious if anyone runs a synthetic session, like you pick your 6 hours, you're flat outside them, purely so you have a defined start and end even though the market doesn't care.time windows but for crypto — what replaces the forced flat?
read the time-windowed skeleton thing in the strategy library last night (of course i did, it was 3am my time and i was bored waiting for setups).
the shape makes total sense for stocks. window your entries, force flat before the close, done. but i trade crypto and there is no close. nothing forces me out. so the part that i actually liked most, "decide whether you hold overnight deliberately rather than by omission" — is the part i can't copy directly.
two things i'm chewing on:
1. the entry window still feels useful? like my stuff genuinely behaves different when asia is awake vs when the us desks come in vs the dead patch in between. so i'd keep the
