excellent thanks. so you dont use a "bar" low high for a stop but rather a"measured" approach, which is what I want to achieve...
If you are using data higher than tick, to generate stats, such as one hour or fahgetaboutit daily your software is making assumptions about where fills are being made. Don't trust it for second.
For my ES trades, my stop is set a tick beyond the signal bar. But the size of the signal bar fluctuates trade to trade (and grows larger in more volatile conditions), hence the fluctuating stop size.
Time stops are the absolute worst. It's better to place your stops above or below the price inflection points.
Not in the same period, but, per example I showed with the screenshots - September average stops (24 ticks) were larger than December average targets (14 ticks). But in same period, my avg targets are always bigger than avg stops.