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I admit I didn't follow all that.  If you have a weekly system that trades on Monday, and you used Norgate's padding, you would have trapped for the padded bar on Monday and not taken the buy signal.  So I don't see where "my buy positions are only "good for a day". " fits in, if you didn't place a buy order?

Anyway, that's not the main reason for this post.

I saw a "trick" in another forum just last night.  So this isn't my original idea (not that I have that many), I'm just passing this on.

If you are using Amibroker's Pad and Align, then you can use the fact that it copies Volume to the next bar as a means of detecting a padded bar.

For example:

The chances of today's Volume being *exactly* equal to yesterday's (last bar's) Volume is statistically insignificant.

You could also say:

to differentiate "padded" from not "traded for 2 or more days", assuming that differentiation is important to you.

This still may not address the issue you've raised, but it could be used as a proxy for Norgate's NorgatePaddingStatusTimeSeries() if you're using Amibroker's Pad and Align instead.