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I would suggest that you take a look at the MC help file and the explanation of SetPercentTrailing. From the code snippet I am under the impression you did not code what you have in mind. So curing the situations where entryprice(0) = 0 might not help you out.
setpercenttrailing is a macro command with 1 input parametr in dollar risk value! set up only once in any place of code!
try to use this
setstopposition;
mp=marketposition;
ep=entryprice;
if mp=1 then SetPercentTrailing( (ep* 1.1 ) );
If you're not having any luck with EntryPrice( 0 ) you could try OpenEntryPrice( 0 ) - the difference is the first references the position (i.e. a zero references the open position, whereas a 1 is the previous position), and the second references trades (i.e. a zero references the first trade in an open position, a 1 references the 2nd trade etc).
You should also look up the difference between SetStopPosition, SetStopContract and SetStopShare which should be added before your SetPercentTrailing code. Based on your code i think SetStopContract is what you're after (by default SetStopPosition is applied). Your code "entryprice(0)* 1.1" suggests a position size of 1 contract and a profit threshold of 110%.
Finally another thing I learned using SetBreakEven and SetPercentTrailing is you should not have them nested within any other code (e.g. IF ... THEN SetPercentTrailing() )
