Possible to attach a stop loss to a moving average ?

• 09/04/2025 at 6:29 AM #250339
  casamania

  Is it possible to attach a stop loss to a moving average ?

  

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  09/04/2025 at 12:41 PM #250348
  GraHal

  Mmmm maybe you need to define more what is in your mind?

  A Stop Loss is attached an Open Trade and therefore attached to Price of that Open Trade, which – by chance – could be the same as the value of a Moving Average … if your entry was, for example …

  If Close = Average[20](Close) Then
  Buy at Market
  Endif

  But to achieve an entry exact same as the value of MA[20]  would be unusual / luck. Chances would be best if running on a 1 second (or less) Chart Timeframe.

   

  

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  09/05/2025 at 2:30 PM #250386
  Nicolas

  You can use the SET STOP PRICE instruction which put the stoploss order on a price value.

  At order ignition:

  MA = average[20] if buyCondition then buy at market set stop price MA endif

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  MA = average[20] if buyCondition then buy at market set stop price MA endif

  during the lifetime of the order: (stoploss will follow strictly the MA value)

  if longonmarket then set stop price MA endif

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  if longonmarket then set stop price MA endif

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