Note: this solution may present some problems if your opening or closing entry has the exact same date/time value as another row (i.e. The transaction that came immediately after opening, or immediately before closing). To address this, I would suggest that you add a sequence number that is stored in a way that guarantees uniqueness, and increasing-with-respect-to-time.
If you do this, then you would use the sequence value in the place of dte to replace the open_date and close_date I've used as join fields in my example.
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