if I was looking to set an exit long with a specific $ profit target  what would it be?

exitlong("buyex","",1,entryprice+$500,limit,day)

what would the correct code be for the dollar amount?

And If I was looking to set it at a certain amount of minimum movements(say 5 here) to test on a basket of products,

 would  the following cover it?

Minmove = getactiveminmove()

exitlong("buyex","",1,entryprice+minmove*5,limit,day)

EntryPrice+(500/BigPointValue)

Thanks Murray,   so would the following be correct then? Does Bigpointvalue need to be identified somewhere or is it just put in as is?

exitlong("buyex","",1,entryprice+(500/bigpointvalue),limit,day)

I tried to put it into a system, jsut to see how it works.   The trades executed on opne, but every single trade exited on the entry price, so I ended up with 0 profit/loss.   Obviously Im missing something, just cant see what.

Here is the code

sub profitexit_test
Dim minmove

Buy("buyent",1,Open,Market,Day)

exitlong("buyex1","buyent",1,entryprice+(200/bigpointvalue),limit,day)

End Sub

What are you trading. ,

Print out BigPointValue, I wonder if it not set correctly. Maybe minmove is set wrong

Print BigPointValue

Add that to your code.

tested on C_REV.CSV and  SP_REV.CSV    data that came with TS.

50 and 250 came up in the 2 print windows...

Is there something I need to change in the data? 

Sorry, typo in that last one.  The value for C_REV came back as 50 and the value for SP_REV came back as 250.

The code used is the same as earlier in this thread.

sub profitexit_test

Dim minmove

minmove= getactiveminmove()

Print bigpointvalue

Buy("buyent",1,Open,Market,Day)

ExitLong("buyex1","buyent",1,EntryPrice+(200/bigpointvalue),Limit,Day)

End Sub

This is the code as I ran it.  2 print windows came up (one for each data file)   One returned a value of 50 (for C_REV.CSV)  and the other print window returned a value of 250 (for SP_REV.CSV)　

All trades still close on the same point they open at though.

sub profitexit_test

Dim minmove

minmove= getactiveminmove()

Print bigpointvalue

Buy("buyent",1,Open,Market,Day)

ExitLong("buyex1","buyent",1,EntryPrice+(200/bigpointvalue),Limit,Day)

End Sub

This is the code as I ran it.  2 print windows came up (one for each data file)   One returned a value of 50 (for C_REV.CSV)  and the other print window returned a value of 250 (for SP_REV.CSV)　

All trades still close on the same point they open at though.

You had a print statement in the code

Print bigpointvalue.

You should go though the smaller book TradersStudio basic on and work though the execises that would help