wow, you're putting a lot into this Alan. What is the desired outcome though. The prev bar (or range) h/L gives enough info, the spread is a tricky one as brokers change it and looking back you can never see it but I would think 10 pips would be adequate to accommodate spread, you'd need to be pretty unfortunate for the price to whip back to the other side and still be at +10 spread.
I spent a bit of time looking at any means of historically viewing bid and the ask, as only one is shown in metatrader when you look back but then I figured its not that relevant. It is what it is and it happens so quickly you'd be asking a lot of an EA to cope with this.
So for me it boils down to money management, set prev bar range top and bottom as SL + 10 pips, if the EA had the option to do that I'd be pretty happy.
Sometimes its going to be a big SL sometimes but I'm skeptical how it can be overcome due to the nature of news.
Have a good weekend all,
PG
I spent a bit of time looking at any means of historically viewing bid and the ask, as only one is shown in metatrader when you look back but then I figured its not that relevant. It is what it is and it happens so quickly you'd be asking a lot of an EA to cope with this.
So for me it boils down to money management, set prev bar range top and bottom as SL + 10 pips, if the EA had the option to do that I'd be pretty happy.
Sometimes its going to be a big SL sometimes but I'm skeptical how it can be overcome due to the nature of news.
Have a good weekend all,
PG