Help please with a basic startegy

[pandyav]

It seemed so simple when I started building this strategy but it looks like I am making some basic mistake.

It is a strategy that:
- Trades only ES with SMA(34) crossing above and below DEMA(500) for long and short entries.
- The entry will be 2 ticks above the high of the signal bar
- Stop loss is (high of the signal bar - DEMA(500) - 2 points). If this is more than 6 points, I'll pass the trade from risk mgt perspective
- I'd like to trade 2 min charts and automate the strategy with 10 points of profit target or 6 points of risk as described above.

The challenge is after compiling the strategy successfully I am not able to see any trades on the chart and I have been trying to crack this without any success.

Can someone please help with why I am not able to see any entry or exit signals? What am I doing wrong here? very much appreciate your help. Thanks.

[koganam]

Your Risk1 DataSeries is hardly ever having valid values, as it is set only on of of 2 very specific conditions: the crossovers.

That means that even when the code gets to the StopPrice setting section, Risk[1] almost certainly has an invalid value which most likely is never less than the 6 cutoff.

You want to use Print() statements as you enter and exit each block, to show you the values that your variables hold. You might quickly see that those values are not what you would expect.