Disliked{quote} Xmess, If you were to add a news filter I personally would use it for only high impact news and would suspend trading 2 hours before the event and up to 1 hour after. Think this would help a lot especially with other currency pairs. After running the EA through the night on the same 4 pairs I lost 6% and am now at a total gain of 3%. There were some larger market spikes that look like they were caused by news events. Any thoughts or recommendations are welcome.Ignored
As for the News events I do think that is important. Again using your example if you know that you can get 8% per week then I would have the EA skip the days that News events happen. True you may not get 8% that week cause opportunities were skipped but you do have the probability of avoiding losing all your profit or worse settling for a considerable loss.
I tell you I have done this with other EAs before and it works. you become consistently profitable. so be patient and don't worry about why or what happened just gather the data and then lets see if we can create a high probability scenario where each week we get +%. each week forever LOL
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