Backtester, profit target or stop loss?

[zwentz]

How does the backtester decide whether you get your profit target or stop loss?

Let's say I'm on 1-minute bars and my profit target and stop loss are both within the same candle, and I don't have any tick data, so the strategy has no way of knowing which would have gotten filled first. How does the backtester decide whether it's a profit target or stop loss? Or does it just default to one or the other?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Zwentz,

If both profit target and stop loss could be filled on the same bar, then it will select the stop loss first.

[zwentz]

Perfect, that's what I needed to know.