Price Touches or Crosses MA

[spmcc]

Hi. I'm new here and trying to develop a simple strategy. I want to enter a position when the price touches and MA. It seems to kind-of-work, but has me scratching my head. It entered on a couple of occurrences, but failed to take the 8 tick profit or respond to the 8 tick stop. I would appreciate any help. Here's the code (via wizard) :

// This namespace holds all strategies and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
/// <summary>
/// Enter the description of your strategy here
/// </summary>
[Description("Enter the description of your strategy here")]
public class MyMABounce : Strategy
{
#region Variables
// Wizard generated variables
private int mA1 = 233; // Default setting for MA1
private int mA2 = 89; // Default setting for MA2
private int mA3 = 50; // Default setting for MA3
private int mA4 = 20; // Default setting for MA4
// User defined variables (add any user defined variables below)
#endregion

/// <summary>
/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is called once before any strategy method is called.
/// </summary>
protected override void Initialize()
{
SetProfitTarget("8", CalculationMode.Ticks, 0);

CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}

/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
// Condition set 1
if (CrossAbove(High, SMA(233), 1)
&& SMA(89)[0] < SMA(233)[0])
{
EnterShort(DefaultQuantity, "233Bounce");
}
}

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

After I quick look I found two things to try:

- Make sure your signal names match. If you want a stop to work on your entry, the signal names should match.
- Increase the number of ticks that you have your stop set at. It is not set at 0 ticks.