Schedule stop and start of a particular ctrader profile on PC

driftingprogrammer
25 Oct 2023, 05:19 ( Updated at: 25 Oct 2023, 05:20 )

I acomplished this with the following approach

To close cTrader few hours before the market close I coded the below cBot

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Diagnostics;
using cAlgo.API;
using cAlgo.API.Indicators;
using cAlgo.API.Internals;
using cAlgo.Indicators;

namespace cAlgo.Robots
{
   [Robot(TimeZone = TimeZones.UTC, AccessRights = AccessRights.FullAccess)]
   public class ShutdownTrendpilot : Robot
   {
       [Parameter("Trade before", DefaultValue = 25, MinValue = 0)]
       public int EndTime { get; set; }

       [Parameter("Trade after", DefaultValue = 4, MinValue = 0)]
       public int StartTime { get; set; }

       [Parameter("Wait in minutes", DefaultValue = 20, MinValue = 0)]
       public int WaitPeriod { get; set; }

       protected override void OnStart()
       {

       }

       protected override void OnBar()
       {
           if (DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.Hours < StartTime || DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.Hours > EndTime)
           {
               System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(WaitPeriod * 60 * 1000);
               System.Environment.Exit(0);
           }

       }

       protected override void OnStop()
       {
           // Put your deinitialization logic here
       }
   }
}
 

To start the cBot I wrote a batch file

start "" "C:\data\work\trendpilot_demo - Pepperstone cTrader.lnk"

And added a schedule in Windows scheduler to invoke the batch file few hours after the market open.

Spotware, if you are listening, can you please let me know how I can add an enhancement request to include in API the ability to start stop other third party cBots running in that instance of cTrader.

Thanks.

PanagiotisChar
25 Oct 2023, 06:05 ( Updated at: 25 Oct 2023, 06:13 )

Hi there,

You can post suggestions here.

You can also use cTrader CLI to interact externally with cBots.

driftingprogrammer
25 Oct 2023, 06:29 ( Updated at: 25 Oct 2023, 10:53 )

RE: Schedule stop and start of a particular ctrader profile on PC

PanagiotisChar said: 

Hi there,

You can post suggestions here.

You can also use cTrader CLI to interact externally with cBots.

 

Thanks for letting me know about CLI, I should be good to go with my requirements with this tool.

Thanks again.

driftingprogrammer
01 May 2024, 14:29 ( Updated at: 02 May 2024, 07:04 )

RE: Schedule stop and start of a particular ctrader profile on PC

PanagiotisChar said: 

Hi there,

You can post suggestions here.

You can also use cTrader CLI to interact externally with cBots.

 

Hi,

The API System.Environment.Exit(0);

which in version 4.0 use to shutdown the entire ctrader is now only shutting down the cbot and the cbot is restarting after shutting down. 

Is there any API now, which I could use to shutdown that very instance of cTrader, like I was able to do in the older versions with the above API.

Please let me know as this is critical for me, my instance of ctrader is running many instances of a third party cBot which I want to shutdown before the market close (I dont want to close any position, I just want the cBots to shutdown that is why I had been shutting down cTrader itself with the above API).

Thanks.

PanagiotisCharalampous
02 May 2024, 07:13

RE: RE: Schedule stop and start of a particular ctrader profile on PC

driftingprogrammer said: 

PanagiotisChar said: 

Hi there,

You can post suggestions here.

You can also use cTrader CLI to interact externally with cBots.

 

Hi,

 

The API System.Environment.Exit(0);

which in version 4.0 use to shutdown the entire ctrader is now only shutting down the cbot and the cbot is restarting after shutting down. 

Is there any API now, which I could use to shutdown that very instance of cTrader, like I was able to do in the older versions with the above API.

Please let me know as this is critical for me, my instance of ctrader is running many instances of a third party cBot which I want to shutdown before the market close (I dont want to close any position, I just want the cBots to shutdown that is why I had been shutting down cTrader itself with the above API).

 

Thanks.

 

cBots now run in separate processes. If you want to close cTrader, you need to find the process and kill it

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6046916/how-to-close-another-process-from-c-sharp

driftingprogrammer
02 May 2024, 07:23 ( Updated at: 02 May 2024, 10:25 )

RE: RE: RE: Schedule stop and start of a particular ctrader profile on PC

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

driftingprogrammer said: 

PanagiotisChar said: 

Hi there,

You can post suggestions here.

You can also use cTrader CLI to interact externally with cBots.

 

Hi,

 

The API System.Environment.Exit(0);

which in version 4.0 use to shutdown the entire ctrader is now only shutting down the cbot and the cbot is restarting after shutting down. 

Is there any API now, which I could use to shutdown that very instance of cTrader, like I was able to do in the older versions with the above API.

Please let me know as this is critical for me, my instance of ctrader is running many instances of a third party cBot which I want to shutdown before the market close (I dont want to close any position, I just want the cBots to shutdown that is why I had been shutting down cTrader itself with the above API).

 

Thanks.

 

cBots now run in separate processes. If you want to close cTrader, you need to find the process and kill it

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6046916/how-to-close-another-process-from-c-sharp

Thanks for your response.

Can you please guide me on how I can identify the process I need to kill, I have 3 different profiles of cTrader running, each instance running 20 to 80 cbots.