I build a breakout strategy in Pine Script:

• If the close of the current bar is higher than the highest high of the last 100 bars, go long
• If the close of the current bar is lower than the lowest low of the last 50 bars, go short
• I added a take profit of 25 ticks
• No two trades in a row in the same direction

So if it hits the take profit of a long position it closes and waits for a short signal. If it doesn’t hit the take profit the trade is reversed in the event of a short signal. Vice versa for a short trade. It works well, except when the strategy is entered and closed at the same bar due to a take profit. It then opens a new trade in the same direction if the long/short condition is valid (see screenshot below).

I cannot figure out how to avoid this. I’ve tried several combinations with strategy.opentrades.*, *profit, bar_index variables etc. trying to check if the last bar was a take profit or how many bars are between the last take profit and the new entry, but I cannot figure out the right combination. Or maybe there’s an easier way.

Here’s the code:

//@version=5

strategy(title="Breakout", overlay = true, process_orders_on_close = false)
periodhh = input(100)
periodll = input(50)
reverse = input(false, title="Trade reverse")
hh = ta.highest(periodhh)
ll = ta.lowest(periodll)

pos=0
pos :=  close > hh[1] ? 1 : close < ll[1] ? -1 : nz(pos[1], 0)

if (pos==1 and pos[2]!=1)
    strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long)
    strategy.exit("Take Profit", profit=25)
    
if (pos==-1 and pos[2]!=-1)
    strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short)   
    strategy.exit("Take Profit", profit=25)