No new order until next day

• 10/06/2025 at 5:27 PM #252204
  kvacksa87

  Hi, I needed help with a script that doesn’t make a new buy until the nextday. If it makes a sell, it doesn’t matter if it’s a profit or loss. So after 00.00 it’s fine for it to go into buy again. If it doesn’t make a sell, I want it to continue running until it gets a signal to do so.

  

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  10/06/2025 at 5:43 PM #252205
  robertogozzi

  Use the variable OTD as defined at https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/help-with-limiting-strategy-to-one-trade-per-day/ (post #143705 ).

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  10/06/2025 at 5:48 PM #252206
  Iván

  Hi,you can handle this easily by checking when a new day starts and using a variable to mark whether a trade has already been made during the current day.
  Here’s a working example that does exactly what you described:

  ONCE lastTradeDay = 0 newDay = day <> day[1] // Reset permission to trade when a new day starts IF newDay THEN lastTradeDay = 0 ENDIF // Buy signal: close crosses above 30-period average setuplong = close CROSSES OVER average[30](close) // Entry: only if no position is open and no trade has been made today IF NOT OnMarket AND lastTradeDay = 0 AND setuplong THEN BUY 1 CONTRACT AT MARKET ENDIF // Exit: close crosses below 30-period average IF OnMarket AND close CROSSES UNDER average[30](close) THEN SELL AT MARKET lastTradeDay = 1 // mark that a trade has already been made today ENDIF GRAPH lastTradeDay COLOURED("red") GRAPH newDay COLOURED("blue") GRAPH setuplong COLOURED("lime")

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  ONCE lastTradeDay = 0   newDay = day <> day[1]   // Reset permission to trade when a new day starts IF newDay THEN    lastTradeDay = 0 ENDIF   // Buy signal: close crosses above 30-period average setuplong = close CROSSES OVER average[30](close)   // Entry: only if no position is open and no trade has been made today IF NOT OnMarket AND lastTradeDay = 0 AND setuplong THEN    BUY 1 CONTRACT AT MARKET ENDIF   // Exit: close crosses below 30-period average IF OnMarket AND close CROSSES UNDER average[30](close) THEN    SELL AT MARKET    lastTradeDay = 1 // mark that a trade has already been made today ENDIF   GRAPH lastTradeDay COLOURED("red") GRAPH newDay COLOURED("blue") GRAPH setuplong COLOURED("lime")

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  10/06/2025 at 5:50 PM #252208
  robertogozzi

  The link above seems not to work, here is the code:

  OTD = Barindex - TradeIndex(1) > IntradayBarIndex // limits the (opening) trades till 1 per day (OTD One Trade per Day) if time >= StartE And time <= StartL and OTD then //and not onmarket then IF conditionsmet then buy N shares AT MARKET ENDIF endif

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  OTD = Barindex - TradeIndex(1) > IntradayBarIndex  // limits the (opening) trades till  1 per day (OTD One Trade per Day) if time >= StartE And time <= StartL and OTD  then //and not onmarket then    IF conditionsmet then       buy N shares AT MARKET    ENDIF endif

   

   

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