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Limit to one buy and one sell a day

How do I limit my algorithm to only one buy and one sale a day?

Thanks,
Vai

3 responses

Vai,

There are a couple ways to go about doing this. The easiest way is to use the built-in trading guards to limit the amount of orders you can place in a day, which limits the absolute number of orders you place in a day and doesn't differentiate between longs and shorts. A different, but more explicit way, is to create your own trading guards and check whether you've placed a long and a short in that day.

I've written up an example containing both options in case you find one better than the other. Let me know if you have any questions

Seong

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Seong,

Buys and sells at same price help?

Regards,
Connor

Hi Connor,

That algorithm is very outdated, I would recommend viewing our latest tutorials here https://www.quantopian.com/help