Because your entry conditions have your exit conditions nested in them. Your code enters a trade the first time, but then exits the if flow because it doesn't get a sell signal until future bars. On the future bars, with an open position, strategy.opentrades == 1, so it doesn't go through the if log...

I believe it's because you are using var when initializing your variables, which doesn't update the value intrabar, hence it still orders on close because that's when the next value in the series is updated. You'll want to use varip instead . But note, it can't be backtested accurately because the i...

Not sure what the issue was. I reformatted the script and it works on every timeframe and asset I tried https://www.tradingview.com/x/lFlr28Ep/ //@version=5 indicator('Test Script', overlay=true) Timeframe = input.timeframe('60') i_T26 = input.symbol('NYSE:DINO') f_strategy() => test = close > open*...