After exhausting all my resources, I been unable to get the backtester to work as I thought that it should work. My understanding with Ninjatrader 8 is that I can use the Tick Replay feature to have a trade executed as soon as a condition is satisfied- not only after the timeframe bar is satisfied. I'm going to go ahead and to leave this to rest instead of keep on posting about it. I will just used the simulator until this gets fixed.
Also, when I look at the Trade Performance results, I noticed that the decimals are off by one. For instance, when it should say 52.8 pips, it would say something such as 528.
Thanks again for giving me the privilege of being a beta-back-tester.