I have an issue with a strategy I wrote and backtesting in NT7. Its pretty simple but I do not know what I did wrong. Basic example would be I enter a position and have a stop loss of 5 ticks. Once I have gained 5 ticks of profit I want to move the stop loss 5 ticks to the entry point of the trade to protect against loss. When I move to the entry point or any place past the entry point backtesting fails and shows that I am just entering and exiting at the same time. If I specify that when I gain 5 ticks of profit I want to move the stop loss say 4 tick only(something greater than the entry point of the trade) everything works fine. Time doesnt seem to matter, but the moment I try to move the stop to or past the entry price backtesting breaks down and just shows that I win all trades but all its really doing is entering and exiting simotaneously. Is it a common error with NT7, I was thinking of just writing my own code that creates a will say "take profit" stop loss so I can write to the log and view. The problem with the log is if a stop loss is hit no signal is recorded. Any way around this? Or do I have to write my own take profit and then close all other positions.

Any help would be much appreciated.

What timeframe are you testing on? You will probably want to test on 1 tick time frame and if your trade logic uses a higher timeframe you would add a second dataseries.

Testing on a 3 range bar. Everything works fine until I try to set the stop loss at the same price as entry price. Then backtesting goes crazy and just enters then exits. I have tried other time frame on your note but still same issue. Is there a function in NT7 for setting breakeven?

erk707 

Testing on a 3 range bar. Everything works fine until I try to set the stop loss at the same price as entry price. Then backtesting goes crazy and just enters then exits. I have tried other time frame on your note but still same issue. Is there a function in NT7 for setting breakeven?

Try changing the stop loss price to the entry price on the bar after you have entered.