Exiting Multiple Contracts

[daven]

I am trying to get a strategy to exit in multiple ways. I want to trade 3 contracts, exit two at a profit of 3 tics, and exit the third using a trailstop of 5 tics. I identify two orders Cont1=2, Cont2=1. I enter the orders when I my entry condition is satisfied and the entries are working fine. I have a stop loss of 5 tics, and the stop loss is working fine. The problem is I never get a trail stop exit. The strategy continues to hold the third contract until the end of day exit, or until a reverse entry condition occurs. Since there is no way to identify in the strategy wizard a long position after the profit exit has occured, I tried using the Position.Quantity == 1 (or -1) as the qualifier for a long or short condition after the profit target had been hit. The logic for the trailing stop is "exit the long if price gets to the close price of last bar plus my trail stop factor (-5 tics). I have the opposite condition for a short with a separate trl factor that is positive. Any idea why this shouldn't work. It seems to be logically correct, (but then they always do don't they)?
Thanks
Daven



// Condition set 3
if (Position.Quantity == 1)
{
ExitLongStop(Close[(int) (Close[1])] + LTrlStop * TickSize, "LTrlExit", "X2Long");
}

// Condition set 4
if (Position.Quantity == -1)
{
ExitShortStop(Close[1] + ShtTrlStop * TickSize, "STrlExit", "X2Short");

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Try using Position.MarketPosition instead.

if (Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Long)