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context.portfolio.positions - how does it work

Hi,

I'm closing a position in the morning and using context.portfolio.positions to detect if I'm in a position or not.

What I'm finding is that context.portfolio.positions still has a reference to a position at the close of day even though I closed it in the morning and so closing the position again. Is this normal? Shouldn't the position be live and contain the active positions?

Thanks.

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Shouldn't the position be live and contain the active positions? I meant to say shouldn't context.portfolio.positions be live and contain active postions?

context.portfolio.positions contains all your filled, active positions. Perhaps the code is not considering existing open orders? If you want to close out positions at the end of the day, take a look at the helper functions Derek shared: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/helper-functions-getting-started-on-quantopian

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Thanks Alisa, I'm setting a trailing stop and that's getting out of sync whilst 2 exit conditions are taking place so was getting out of control.

Thanks for your assistance.