Using negative value in SetStopLoss (Ticks) for breakeven

[travelingsalesman]

ran into something interesting in ninjascript that compiles and works but apparently produces an error on NT8 startup.

i was experimenting using SetStopLoss(CalculationMode.Ticks, -2, false) so this way no matter which direction the trade is in the stoploss would always move above (or below for shorts) breakeven by 2 ticks. this seems to function properly in strategy analyzer (shown in image 1) but when launching nt8 i always get the error shown in image 2.

im curious what the devs at NT8 say about this. is it fine to use? is it a bug? would love to know yalls thoughts and actually i think allowing negative numbers in SetStopLoss just makes sense to me, if its not already a feature.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

hello travelingsalesman,

The offset for targets needs to be a positive number, using a negative number there would not be supported and may cause issues.

The Set methods automatically calculate the correct offset based on the direction of the trade so a positive number is always used for both directions.