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Order at a specific time of day

If I were to want to check some data or order a security at a specific time of day how would I do that? Below is an example that I have been trying to just order aapl at 10:30am and then sell after 6hrs. But no orders ever get executed.

from pytz import timezone

# Put any initialization logic here.  The context object will be passed to  
# the other methods in your algorithm.  
def initialize(context):  
    #myfunc will be called every day 60min after market open  
    schedule_function(  
        openfunc,  
        date_rules.every_day(),  
        time_rules.market_open(hours=1, minutes=0)  
    )  
    schedule_function(  
        closefunc,  
        date_rules.every_day(),  
        time_rules.market_open(hours=6, minutes=0)  
    )

# Will be called on every trade event for the securities you specify.  
def handle_data(context, data):  
    pass

def openfunc(context, data):  
    order(sid(24), 50)

def closefunc(context, data):  
    order_target(sid(24), 0)
2 responses

You my want to check out the schedule_function feature. This allows a wide variety of custom scheduling for certain functions and takes care of all of the datetime work so all you have to do is write the strategy's code.

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Thanks James, that was helpful.