Bread Crumb title Levels

Am I missing something or is there a configuration option that will allow me to determine how many topics a bread crumb trail will display? for some reason when I click on a link to a topic from my start page, and then click on another link to a topic and then another one and so on...it only shows the start or landing page and the first topic I clicked on that's it. I have been using the options in the compile settings to determine this but if there's another option to set this, please let me know.