Need help using Trailing Stop in Strategy Builder for NT8

[David Zahaluk]

Hi All,
I'm new to using Strategy Builder in NT8. I am unable to get the trailing stop to work. The strategy I set up before with a profit target and stop loss worked fine. But no trades were processed when I removed the profit target and stop loss and just selected trailing stop. Any guidance on what I'm doing wrong?
Best,
David

[NT-Roland]

Hi David,
Somewhat difficult to tell without screenshots from your strategy.
The search function in this forum is quite powerful. Did you already have a look at this thread others found useful?

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/101934-using-trailing-stops-in-strategy-builder

NT-Roland

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello David Zahaluk,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

Are you using a number of ticks for the calculation mode?

If you are looking at the strategy performance on the Orders display are you showing that the Trailing stop order is not showing at all or is this appearing with an unexpected price?

Please enable TraceOrders and open the New -> NinjaScript Output window, then re-run the script. Are any messages appearing about ignored orders appearing in the output window.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/index.html?output.htm#UnderstandingTheOutputWindowDisplay