This will be a collection of nuances and "sticky wickets" to be aware of when developing a trading strategy in Ninja Trader. Please feel free to contribute anything you come across personally or in the NT and BigMike forums or anywhere else. Please attach images that demonstrate the issue whenever possible.

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Realtime trades are paired in the sequence of their timestamps and not by entry/exit names

If you are managing your trade on a smaller time frame you can do a few things:

EnterLong(1, DefaultQuantity, "myLong")

Where the 1 will force it into BarsArray[1].

In the Initialize section add the line

Add(PeriodType.Range, 1)

Using range 1 instead of tick 1 is much more efficient and will still manage the trade every 1 tick of price movement. Helpful for trailing stops or etc.