The following code works well to determine if a value has hit or missed in the next lines, and by specifying an output column showing the condition's execution time.
import datetime,numpy as np,pandas as pd;
nan = np.nan;
a = pd.DataFrame( {'price': {datetime.time(9, 0): 1, datetime.time(10, 0): 0, datetime.time(11, 0): 3, datetime.time(12, 0): 4, datetime.time(13, 0): 7, datetime.time(14, 0): 6, datetime.time(15, 0): 5, datetime.time(16, 0): 4, datetime.time(17, 0): 0, datetime.time(18, 0): 2, datetime.time(19, 0): 4, datetime.time(20, 0): 7}, 'reversal': {datetime.time(9, 0): nan, datetime.time(10, 0): nan, datetime.time(11, 0): nan, datetime.time(12, 0): nan, datetime.time(13, 0): nan,
datetime.time(14, 0): 6.0, datetime.time(15, 0): nan, datetime.time(16, 0): nan, datetime.time(17, 0): nan, datetime.time(18, 0): nan, datetime.time(19, 0): nan, datetime.time(20, 0): nan}});
a['target_hit_time']=a['target_miss_time']=nan;
a['target1']=a['reversal']+1;
a['target2']=a['reversal']-a['reversal'];
a.sort_index(1,inplace=True);
hits = a.ix[:,:-2].dropna();
for row,hit in hits.iterrows():
forwardRows = [row]<a['price'].index.values
targetHit = a.index.values[(hit['target1']==a['price'].values) & forwardRows][0];
targetMiss = a.index.values[(hit['target2']==a['price'].values) & forwardRows][0];
if targetHit>targetMiss:
a.loc[row,"target_miss_time"] = targetMiss;
else:
a.loc[row,"target_hit_time"] = targetHit;
a
This image shows the output from the above code, which can be easily reproduced by running this code:

The problem is that when this code is used on real data, the price may not match and / or may depend on the value. Therefore, if we look at the following image:

We see that the criteria target1would be fulfilled if we were looking for meaning >= 7.5, and not just looking for meaning 7.5. Can someone help change the code to achieve this please?