Trail stop is stopping at breakeven

[rmhollon]

I have a very simple strategy that triggers once a day. I want to test the strategy with a trail stop instead of a fixed stop. I adjusted the fixed stop in Strategy Builder to a trailing stop, however, in each instance the trail stop is appearing at my entry price instead of a true trailing stop. I adjusted strategy builder to calculate on price change but it is still happening. Any suggestions?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rmhollon,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

The trailing action will update when the bar updates. In historical this will always be OnBarClose.

Using Calculate.OnPriceChange should update the trail distance in real-time.

Below is a link to a quick video i've recorded demonstrating.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eI3av9tBbanX-as8g3SWcObWy2n7CFV/view?usp=sharing

In historical for trailing to update for each price change, the script would need to be unlocked and 1-tick intra-bar granularity implemented by hand with TickReplay enabled.

Below is a link to a support article on 1-tick intra-bar granularity and TickReplay.

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/article/Developer-Guide-Improving-backtest-order-fill-accuracy-with-intrabar-granularity

And an example that implements 1-tick intra-bar granularity and does trailing action.

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/article/Profit-Chase-Stop-Trail

[rmhollon]

I will take a look at these examples, thank you!