Trailing stop triggering an entry

November 25th, 2019, 07:29 AM

Hi im using a trailing stop and stop loss. Most of the time this works but sometimes my trailing stop is putting me into a reverse position. This typically happens when my position does not move into profit from my entry and moves straight to the stop loss.

Is this because the orders are still live until the close of the bar?

How do I go about ensuring that this does not happen?

sl (4),
tp (12),
trailing_input (4),

if marketposition <> 0 then
setprofittarget_pt(tp);
setstoploss_pt(sl);
settrailingstop_pt(tp/trailing_input);

Thanks.

November 25th, 2019, 08:36 AM

I think I may have found my answer:

[IntrabarOrderGeneration = true]

This will cancel the stop or trailing stop immediately after a position is closed.

However this seems to vause my backtest to display diffrent results. I think this is more due to a change in how the test is calculating historic data than how the strategy operates.

Therefore,

I think taking the [IntrabarOrderGeneration = true] out for backtests and adding it for live trading should work.

December 2nd, 2019, 05:10 AM

Bump.

Was till having issues.

Removed the stop and left the trailing. So simple - lets see..

March 7th, 2020, 11:46 AM

did it work?

Trailing stop triggering an entry

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