Applying ATM Strategy to trade not placing stops correctly

[ThatMikey]

I have a automated strategy that is entering trades for me. I can't get it to enter the trade with my preferred ATM strategy so I apply it after the fact. My issue that while it posts the Stop and Take profit, it doesn't put them in the correct spot. For example, I enter a long trade at 100.00 and by the time I apply an ATM strategy the price has moved to 100.03. The ATM strategy is supposed to place my Stop at 10 ticks below the entry and TP at 10 ticks above. Instead of my stops being at 99.90 and TP at 100.10 my stop is 99.93 and TP at 100.13. How can I fix this?

I know the obvious "...move it yourself, silly!" idea, and I do, but when price action is moving swiftly I need this to not be an issue. Thanks for any advice.

[NinjaTrader_LuisH]

Hello ThatMikey,

Thank you for posting on the NinjaTrader forums.

What do you have your 'parameter type' set to for your ATM strategy? If you have it set for anything other than 'ticks' it would not perform as expected since your expectation is for the bracket order to be set using the 'ticks' parameter.



Please let us know if there's anything further we can assist with!

[ThatMikey]

Thanks for the reply. Everything is set to ticks. Not sure why it's placing these incorrectly.

[NinjaTrader_LuisH]

Hello ThatMikey,


The 'parameter type' - 'ticks' does not allow you to enter a decimal point - only whole numbers. In your initial post you mentioned '99.90' and '100.10'. Since this is not possible to do with ticks, it leads me to believe that you are using 'pips' instead.



Can you please double-check to make sure that you are not using 'pips'?


Thank you!

[ThatMikey]

I went through and looked. Everything is set to ticks.

[NinjaTrader_LuisH]

Hello ThatMikey,


I'd like you to write into our support team for further assistance. Please write into clientservices@ninjatrader[dot]com and our team is happy to look at this with you.


Thank you!