Doesn't the monitoring step work in conjunction with the monitoring stop? Just like in the event that you place the trailing measure to 100 pips once you are up 100 pips then your trailing stop kicks in? Like when the trailing stop is 25 pips once you are up 100 pips a 25 pip trailing stop is created? Since I have an EA using a monitoring step / stop and it doesn't appear to work correctly. The monitoring stop kicks in before the trailing step is met. I thought maybe it was the decimal point difficulty 3 versus 5 so I added an extra 0 to the monitoring measure and it prevented the monitoring stop from opening.