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How do you Cancel All Open Orders (on a Friday afternoon) ?

Simple question. What is the proper code to use in order to cancel all open orders on Friday afternoons?
In conjunction with a schedule_function why can't I simply use a "one liner" such as:
cancel_order(get_open_orders(sid=None)) ? This doesn't work.

Thank you in advance!

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This should work - it cancels all open orders on Friday afternoon, 10 minutes before market close.

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The above code actually does not cancel all open orders. The cancel_order() function takes either order IDs or order objects as input, not Equity objects. The fact that this fails silently is a bug on our end. Here's the correct way to cancel all open orders:

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I tried this code, and it does not seem to cancel orders before live trading. Is it only track order id after live trading started?

def cancel(context,data):
oo = get_open_orders() # Dict of security objects with open orders
for sec in oo: # Each security object has a list
for order in oo[sec]: # Each order in the list
cancel_order(order.id) # The order id