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context.account.day_trades and Robinhood Instant: avoiding pattern day trading

I am currently trying to put together a basic Robinhood Instant live-trading algorithm and noticed in the Quantopian api (https://www.quantopian.com/help) that there is no context.account.day_trades_remaining method for Robinhood. I had a few questions related to this:

Has anyone tried to implement a version of day_trades_remaining into their Robinhood live-trading algos? Or encountered what happens when running into the pattern day trading limit with their Robinhood Instant accounts? Is this a problem? Does set_long_only() prevent day trading all together?

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I'm interested in an answer as well. But I can say that set_long_only() only prevents short positions from being ordered.

I also have the same problem. I want to make sure my algorithm doesn't have any day trades so that I don't need the minimum of $25,000 to start. Can anyone answer how you can write a portion of the code to make sure no day trades occur?