Auto Break Even

Auto Break Even moves a trade’s protective stop to the entry price — plus a small offset you choose — once the trade is in profit by a trigger you set. It is the same tool NinjaTrader’s ATM strategies and Tradovate’s bracket settings offer, so a rule you already use on your live platform carries over to your replays unchanged.

Tip

Auto Break Even is a Pro feature. Free accounts see the switch locked in the Order Panel.

Turning it on

1. Open the Order Panel in a replay session.

2. Below the SL / TP inputs, switch Auto BE on.

3. Choose the trigger unit — TK (ticks) or R — and set the trigger and the + offset.

The setting is yours, not the session’s: it is saved to your account, applies to every session you start, and is re-applied when you resume a saved one. Turn it off the same way.

Settings

Setting	Meaning	Default
Trig (TK)	Profit, in ticks, that moves the stop.	10
Trig (R)	Profit as a multiple of the trade’s original stop distance. 1R = the distance from entry to the stop the trade was placed with.	1
+	Ticks locked in past the entry. +1 on a long puts the stop one tick above entry — a small cushion for costs.	1

In ticks mode the + offset must be smaller than the trigger. In R mode the move is skipped if + is not smaller than the trigger distance for that trade.

How it fires

• The engine checks each completed bar’s high (for longs) or low (for shorts) against entry ± trigger — the same evidence stop and limit fills use. Only trades that were already open when the bar started are checked; a trade opened inside a bar is first checked on the next bar.
• When the trigger prints, the stop moves to entry + offset for a long (entry − offset for a short), snapped to the tick grid. The Order Panel and the chart’s stop line update, and a toast says Stop moved to break even.
• The moved stop is live from the next bar. If the next bar opens through the stop, it fills at that open; otherwise normal stop matching applies.
• It fires once per trade. After the move the stop is yours: drag it, tighten it, or cancel it, and the engine leaves it alone.
• It never loosens a stop. If you already moved the stop past break even by hand, nothing happens.

Trades with no stop

• Ticks mode: a trade with no stop gets one placed at the break-even level when the trigger prints (toast: Break-even stop placed).
• R mode: there is nothing to measure R from, so the trade is skipped. The same applies to a stop that sits on the wrong side of entry.

What you see

Positions whose stop is at or beyond entry show a small BE badge in the Positions panel.

Choosing a trigger

The most common mistake with break-even rules is setting the trigger too tight. A one- or two-tick trigger fires on normal noise, and the stop you just moved is then hit by the same noise — a stream of flat trades that would have been winners.

• A widely used starting point is 1R: move once the trade has earned what it risked. Half the target is another common rule.
• Use a small + offset so a “break-even” exit still covers commissions.
• Think about the instrument and the timeframe: 10 ticks is 2.5 points on ES and a very different distance on a 10-second gold chart.

Analytics

The stop a trade was planned with is what Analytics reports as its risk, even after Auto Break Even (or a manual drag) moves it. R-multiples stay honest.

Availability

• Requires a Pro plan. If your plan lapses while a session is running, the engine stops moving stops and the switch turns itself off.
• The feature is enabled per site by an administrator; while it is off, the Order Panel does not show the switch.