what would be the correct code for putting in a stop loss in a dollar amount or number of tics?  say for 5,000 dollars or 10 tics.   And would it differ between commodities and stocks?

Just to further my question on stop losses. I tried the following code testing on S&P daily sample data

If tradestoday()=0 Then
Buy("buyRange",1,Lo,Limit,Day)
EndIf

Exitdollarstop(1000,"","",1)

ExitEOD("","",1)

All the trades exit at end of day, however the biggest loss is 17,000 dollars.

Sub testDollarStop() If tradestoday()=0 Then Buy("buyRange",1,LowD,Limit,Day) EndIf ExitDollarStop(1000,"DollarStop","buyRange",1) ExitEOD("EOD","buyRange",1) End sub The code above (note modifications) works and does stop out at $1000 when tested on the 5 minute bar data. When creating the session be sure to set the data compression to 5 minute. It is easy to miss this step as the default is daily and then the code doesn't work as expeceted.