TrailBuiderExample's stop keeps moving away from price

[trdninstyle]

In my strategy after price went into positive territory the stop would move as it should, okay. Then as price came back down but instead of protecting or locking in my supposed profit, the stop kept running away from price back down into negative territory!

It trades like I do, no discipline. I tend to move my stop hoping it goes back up, I suck at trading. But these strategies do the same thing!!

I thought maybe I did something wrong in my complicated strategy, so I just used the out of the box Example TrailBuilderExample to see what it is supposed to do. It does the same thing.
Instead of locking in profit it backs away from price as it approaches it. What is the sense?? If it won't lock in profit but back down into negative territory I might as well, go back to trading the I always do! Scared. lol

Is there a way to make the example or mine to stay put once I have locked in a little profit? And not give it all back.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello trdninstyle,

Thanks for your post.

When running the TrailBuilderExample script from the forum thread linked below, I see that an initial entry order and stop loss are placed. When the market price moves up a certain number of ticks in our favor, the stop-loss trails upward. When the market price moves against our favor, the stop loss remains in the same position until the stop loss order is filled.

TrailBuilderExample: https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...596#post806596

See this demonstration video showing the behavior that is explained above: https://brandonh-ninjatrader.tinytak...OV8yMDY4MjQ4NA

Please test the TrailBuilderExample from the forum thread linked above using the same steps and settings seen in the demonstration video. Do you see a different behavior occurring?

Let me know if I may assist you further.

[trdninstyle]

Hello Brandon,

It's still doing that, tho. I made a video but ended up being 15 minutes. I do like the 30 second chart, I might stay with that, especially if thats what works. I'll trade standing on my head if it will work.

I'll re download the example just in case I tweaked it somewhere along the way. I did have the bid -3 ticks, so I don't get that error.

This is a 1-minute video showing the settings. Because of the volatility at the end, it errored.

https://www.screencast.com/t/NCic8tK6Y

But the stop moved away from price after I was in profit, all the way back to breakeven. I didn't keep it going to see if it would go into negative territory, probably would have.

Let me go re-download it, maybe thats it? But I can get this to work right do u think?

I remember your advice from before for that other thing, I'm going to double back to it later.
In section two.

Stop order can't be placed above the bid - NinjaTrader Support Forum

[trdninstyle]

I re-downloaded it. The stop now gets taken out. Now I can go from here.

Thanks

[trdninstyle]

I took the trail builder example, since I know the trailing stop won't move after it's in profit and added a bull bar for a condition. And I changed the entry to a limit order.
Do I need to add a variable for the limit order? Because it's minus 2 ticks let's say, I know an input would be -2 and -999 in the input section.

And in set 2 would I remove State = State. Realtime or keep it there? Set 3 I don't believe I need to do anything there.
I copied the original and made it AaTrailBuilderExample.