How to Print the CurrentPrice and the Stop Price everytime the price or stop moves

[AlgoJason]

If we set a Trailing Stop, how do we:

Print(string.Format("Price={0} StopPrice={1}", Close[0], StopPrice))

What function gets called everytime the stop moves (ie. the trailing stop moves) or the price moves? I.e where do I put the above line of code so that I can see every determination/update of the value of the stop price?

This would be extremely useful for debugging what is going on with my stops as they do not appear to be doing what I think they should be.

The thing I am trying to determine is what happens if I use SetTrailStop(stopPips) in OnBarUpdate every single bar?

Say we are long and that the price has moved down and therefore the stop price has stayed where it is. Does the next call to SetTrailStop(stopPips) move the stop down, or does it leave it alone?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello AlgoJason,

I'm not understanding your inquiry.

When you say how do we and then you have a print that prints the close price and a variable named StopPrice, what are you looking to do with these?

Anytime an order is update, such as a price change or state change, this will trigger OnOrderUpdate().

Below is a publicly available link to the help guide on OnOrderUpdate().

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/onorderupdate.htm

You could print the <order>.StopPrice to print the price of the stop order object.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/order.htm

[AlgoJason]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I have tried to do that in the attached example TraceStopPrice.cs. The stop is getting set, and it is getting hit, as the attached screen capture of the chart shows. But the OnOrderUpdate code is not outputting what the stop price is.

How do I trace the stop price? (it should be 944.00).

The NT output is:

lastClose=945.75 stop=0 AFP=0
lastClose=945.75 stop=0 AFP=0
lastClose=945.75 stop=0 AFP=0
lastClose=945.75 stop=0 AFP=945.75

What I want/expected the out put to be was something like...

lastClose=945.75 stop=944.00 AFP=0
lastClose=945.75 stop=944.00 AFP=0
lastClose=945.75 stop=944.00 AFP=0
lastClose=945.75 stop=944.00 AFP=945.75
lastClose=xxx stop=944.00 AFP=945.75
lastClose=yyy stop=944.00 AFP=945.75
...
...
lastClose=944.00 stop=944.00 AFP=945.75

[AlgoJason]

Solution here:

I found the solution to the problem here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=68285