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Date/Time: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:18:30 +0000
Step Trailing Stop moves the stop backward after a manual adjustment
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| [2026-10-22 17:05:06] |
| n8trading - Posts: 84 |
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Version: 2975 | Trade service: Teton | Order type: Step Trailing Stop (attached order) Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter long [ES] at [5000.00] with an attached Step Trailing Stop: initial stop [4990.00], step amount [4.00], increment [4.00]. 2. While price is at [5003.00], before any step has triggered, manually drag the stop to breakeven at [5000.00]. 3. Price reaches [5004.00] and the first step triggers. Expected: The stop stays at 5000.00 or moves above it. A trailing stop should never move to a worse price. Actual: The stop moves to [4994.00], which is the original stop of 4990 plus one increment. The manual adjustment is ignored, and the stop is now 6 points below the breakeven level I set. The position has risk on it again even though I had deliberately removed that risk. Request: When a step triggers, the stop should never move in the unfavorable direction. For a long, the new stop should be the higher of the current stop price and the calculated step price (the lower of the two for a short). An alternative would be to measure future steps from the stop's manually adjusted price. Either way, a manual adjustment should never be undone by the trailing logic. Moving a step-trailed stop to breakeven is a very common way to manage a trade. Right now doing that is unsafe unless you also switch the stop to a plain stop. |
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