cart before the horse

[kenk10]

Hi,
Here's my dilemma:
When I enter a short position using
EnterShortLimit(lowestLow)
I have programmed a two point (8 tick) profit target using:
SetProfitTarget(CalculationMode.Ticks, 8)
When I check the chart and both the entry and the exit happens on the same bar, the cart comes before the horse meaning the target price is reached before the entry price when the price starts out low and goes high. It seems the program doesn't know which came first....
How do I overcome this?
Thanks
KK

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

If you are backtesting there is no intrabar granularity. You only have OHLC and as such you will not know if the High was hit before the Low or vice versa.

What you can try is add more granularity through this tip: http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/...ead.php?t=6652

[kenk10]

the cart....

I would imagine then, that this won't be a problem in live trading if the sell signal (the horse) is the first signal traded?

Thanks for your input (pun intended!)
Ken