I agree with all previous posts that the trading hours and liquid trading hours in contact objects are probably your strongest indicators.
In addition, you could subscribe to market data for the exchange or instrument you are interested in. Say one of the TickByTick types. You could then judge by the rate of trades whether there is enough activity for your participation.
JR.
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On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 02:00 PM, kav wrote:
I would like to check if the market for a contract is open before sending or modifying an order.
I see the contract specs have a trading hours attribute, but wanted to check if there is another way before parsing the strings and messing with timezones.
