public property MarketRateAut.StartDate

Brief

The date and time of the begin of the period.

Declaration
Visual Basic
StartDate As DateTime
IDL
[propget] HRESULT StartDate( [out, retval] DATE* retVal)

Details

The date and time is shown with the seconds precision. For ticks the StartDate means the time when the price appears.

For bars the StartDate means the time when the bar started. In this case the StartDate will always rounded to the period size, i.e. m1 bars will start at the whole minute (hh:mm:00), H1 bars will start from at whole hour (hh:00:00), m30 bars will start either at whole hour or at half-of-hour (hh:00:00 or hh:30:00). Please note that day, weeks and months starts with the trading day instead of calendar day. For example, the trading day can equal 17:00:00EST.

The property is read-only.

The StartDate property is defined in the MarketRateAut class.

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