Advice needed for simple automated strategy

Hi all,

I want to carry out a simple backtest on a manual strategy.
All I want to automate is the following:
Choose symbol (for example EURUSD), choose lot size, set SL/TP pips (possibly also add average pip spread)
Then place long and short orders daily at 00:00hrs, and close the orders daily at 23:55.(if the orders have not hit SL or TP then just close at current price)
At next 00:00 hrs, repeat.
And obviously I would like to calculate the profit and loss along the way.

What's the best way to go about this?
I'm a newbie, I can add indicators etc to the ctrader backtest environment, but I don't need indicators (are the indicators supposed to trigger orders?)
I just want to trigger orders at specific time intervals and then close them at specific time.

I would also like to automate the strategy in forward time on a demo account.

Cheers

Andy :-)