I have a good understanding of the trailing stop and how it works.
What is confusing is if there are 20 points between the buy and the current market price, and I place a trailing stop at ten . Well there it is halfway up as it should be.
However if in the same situation I place a trailing stop at 25 points away it dosent appear in meter trader on the negative side so to speak. However once the current market reaches 26 points from the buy it suddenly appears and comes into action. I believe it is actually there all along it is just invisible when on the other side of the buy because if the market reverses and comes back to 5 points in the negative direction the stop will stop it at the 5 point loss.
At least I think that is what is happening.
Furthermore what I am really trying to do is put a buy down and then tell meter trader if the price ever reaches 20 point above the buy then place a trailing stop at ten even though I am not here.
Can this actually be done.