Pine Script Day of Week Filter

Five weekday toggles gate entries so your strategy skips the days you don’t want to trade.

Copy//@version=6
strategy("Day of Week Filter", overlay=true, calc_on_every_tick=false)

// ── Inputs ──────────────────────────────────────────────
monOn = input.bool(true,  "Trade Monday")
tueOn = input.bool(true,  "Trade Tuesday")
wedOn = input.bool(true,  "Trade Wednesday")
thuOn = input.bool(true,  "Trade Thursday")
friOn = input.bool(false, "Trade Friday")

// ── Day check (NY clock) ─────────────────────────────────
dow = dayofweek(time, "America/New_York")
dayOK = (dow == dayofweek.monday and monOn) or
     (dow == dayofweek.tuesday and tueOn) or
     (dow == dayofweek.wednesday and wedOn) or
     (dow == dayofweek.thursday and thuOn) or
     (dow == dayofweek.friday and friOn)

// ── Entry logic (replace with your own conditions) ───────
longCondition  = ta.crossover(ta.ema(close, 9), ta.ema(close, 21)) and dayOK
shortCondition = ta.crossunder(ta.ema(close, 9), ta.ema(close, 21)) and dayOK

if longCondition
    strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long)
    strategy.exit("Long Exit", "Long", profit=20, loss=10)

if shortCondition
    strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short)
    strategy.exit("Short Exit", "Short", profit=20, loss=10)

// Visual
bgcolor(not dayOK ? color.new(color.gray, 92) : na, title="Day Disabled")

Settings

• monOn … friOn — one toggle per weekday. Defaults: Mon-Thu on, Friday off.

How to use

• Paste into the Pine Editor and replace the EMA-crossover placeholder with your own entry conditions.
• The day is read on the NY clock — for US futures the trading day flips at 6:00 PM ET, so overnight bars can belong to the next weekday.
• Check the per-weekday breakdown in your backtest before disabling a day; make the decision on data, not a hunch.
• Gray shading marks disabled days on the chart.

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