Positions & orders

Beyond placing orders, the runtime exposes built-in functions (handled directly by the engine, not indicators) to read the account and your existing positions. The key one is OpenOrders() — it returns your currently open positions, and in paper/live it syncs them from your broker first.

On a restart, reconcile existing positions first. If the strategy re-runs (for example a daily restart), positions from the previous run may still be open — always check them in onStart before entering anything new.

Reconciling positions on restart

Walk the open positions with foreach and read each order's properties.

onStart {
    // reconcile existing positions before trading anything new
    foreach ord in OpenOrders() {
        // e.g. close any losing position left from a previous run
        if (ord.Profit < 0) {
            OrderCloseByTicket(ord.Ticket, INTRADAY, DAY, "cleanup");
        }
    }
}

Order properties

Each order (such as the ord loop variable) exposes these properties via ord.Name:

Property	Meaning
`ord.Ticket`	Unique order id
`ord.Symbol`	The order's symbol
`ord.Type`	Side — buy or sell
`ord.Volume`	Quantity
`ord.Price`	Execution price
`ord.SL` / `ord.TP`	Stop loss / take profit
`ord.OpenTime`	Entry time
`ord.Magic`	Magic number
`ord.Profit`	Net profit / loss
`ord.Remark`	Remark text

Account, position & time functions

Function	Returns
`OpenOrders()`	Open orders (syncs from the broker in paper/live)
`OpenPositions()`	Open orders held in memory
`PositionsTotal()`	Number of open orders
`PositionSize(symbol)`	Total quantity held for a symbol
`Balance()` / `Equity()`	Account balance / equity
`IsLocked(symbol)`	Whether the symbol is currently locked
`TimeCurrent()` / `ServerTimeCurrent()`	Current time
`DayOfWeek()`	Current day of week (number)
`DayAdd(datetime, days)`	A datetime shifted by n days
`GetTodayDayName()`	Today's name, e.g. "Monday"
`GetWeekDayOpen/High/Low/Close(...)`	This week's weekday OHLC
`GetPreviousWeekDayOpen/High/Low/Close(...)`	Last week's weekday OHLC

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