Strategy · Pine Script v5 · On the chart

Buy Before Close, Sell After Open (NYSE)

by jawauntb

This time-based strategy trades overnight holding periods on the New York Stock Exchange, plotting execution labels directly on the price chart.

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GitHub stars3on the repository
Pine versionv5runs as is
Lines of code27
Settings1inputs
LicenceGPL-3.0
Last update2 years ago22 May 2024

Add It to Your TradingView Chart

  1. 1Copy the scriptPress Copy script above, or the copy button on the code below.
  2. 2Open the Pine EditorOpen a TradingView chart and choose Pine Editor at the bottom of the screen.
  3. 3Paste over the templateCreate a new strategy, select all of the template text and paste. Press Save and give it a name.
  4. 4Add it to the chartPress Add to chart. The trades and results appear in the Strategy Tester tab; adjust the settings with the gear icon.

Source Code

27 lines of Pine Script v5 from buy-open-sell-close-strat.pine, published under GPL-3.0. Keep the author's credit and licence lines when you reuse it.

buy-open-sell-close-strat.pine
// This Pine Script™ code is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
// © jawauntb

//@version=5
strategy("Buy Before Close, Sell After Open (NYSE)", overlay=true, default_qty_type=strategy.fixed)

// Define session for NYSE
sessionNY = input("0930-1600:12345", title="Session Input")

// Define an anchor on session changes
isNewSession() =>
    timeframe.isdwm or (not na(time("1D", sessionNY, "America/New_York")) and na(time("1D[1]", sessionNY, "America/New_York"))) 

var float buyPrice = na

// Buy 10 minutes before the session ends
if (hour(time("1", sessionNY, "America/New_York")) == 15 and minute(time("1", sessionNY, "America/New_York")) == 50) and isNewSession() 
    strategy.entry("Buy", strategy.long, qty=4)
    buyPrice := close

// Sell 10 minutes after the session starts
if (hour(time("1", sessionNY, "America/New_York")) == 9 and minute(time("1", sessionNY, "America/New_York")) == 40) and not na(buyPrice) 
    strategy.close("Buy", qty=3)

// Visual confirmation of buy and sell points
plotshape(series=strategy.opentrades > 0 and isNewSession(), location=location.belowbar, color=color.green, style=shape.labelup, text="Buy")
plotshape(series=strategy.opentrades == 0 and isNewSession(), location=location.abovebar, color=color.red, style=shape.labeldown, text="Sell")

Overview

Buy Before Close, Sell After Open (NYSE) triggers a fixed long entry ten minutes before the regular session ends at 15:50 New York time. The strategy executes a partial exit ten minutes after the market opens at 09:40 the next trading day. Users can customize the session time string. It does not use any stop-loss or take-profit orders and leaves one unit of the position open without a full exit rule.

Details

Published by

jawauntb on GitHub

Type

Strategy, Pine Script v5

Draws

On the price chart

Category

Sessions & time

Markets

Stocks

Timeframes

M1-M5, M15-H1

Risk Notes

  • The strategy enters trades without a stop loss

Settings

The inputs you can change from the gear icon on the chart. Defaults are the author's.

SettingTypeDefaultVariable
Session Inputstring0930-1600:12345sessionNY
Third-party code. ForexR did not write, test or endorse this script, and the summary above was generated automatically from its code and README. Indicators describe the past, and a strategy's backtest can look better than live trading, especially when a script repaints. Check it in the Strategy Tester and on a demo account before you rely on it.

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