Hello Juan Rulfo,
I also had similar experiences with the drawdowns on this EA, but in my opinion the EA still has very great potential. I am running the EA on a demo with a leverage of 1: 500. i am running the EA also on other 2 demos with a leverage of 1: 30 and 1: 33. I've spent many, many hours doing backtests to get good set files . In the meantime I have understood how the individual parameters affect the EA and what their function is. In some forums it is claimed that the EA reads the history forward when backtesting to show a nicer picture ... Personally, I can't say anything about that, I'm not a coder, but when visually backtesting you can see that the EA does not open some trades somehow, but indicators have to be built in that indicate the trend and any pivot point or S + R levels are taken into account .. so the EA has already been built with brains
THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION
We shouldn't forget that we are in a market that trades tens of trillions EVERY DAY and there are giants at work who can afford the best EAs and the best traders in the world !!
The biggest drawdowns that I had happened during a GBP news with high impact and because I was trading 3x GBP pairs at the same time ... Then the drawdowns came like a cascade; the first DD, then the account decreased and the next pair reached the set DD percentage ..... The problem is that the
flex news indicator does not work, probably because of changing the URL isssue. Maybe someone here can help. There are news indicators that can stop trading, but not specifically for every single pair that you run on the mt4 at the same time. These indicators switch the autotrading button of the mt4 off or on again, depending on your preference.
If you only trade a pair, that's ok and it works.
e.g. the news calendar on davinci-fx dot com
I use the default setting, but with my own set files.
The great art is to reduce the percentage of DD as much as possible and still achieve a good result, because the standard setting of 30% to 40% is simply too much.
And then there is the matter of the news indicator, without this one should NOT trade on a real money account, because the drawdown is preprogrammed there !! So far I have managed to reduce the DD to 23% with a leverage of 1: 400-500 and to around 18% with a leverage of 1: 30 (33) without affecting profitability.
And I am confident that further reductions in DD are possible.
In Conclusion:
I think we have to invest a lot of time to get the best result with an EA in this highly competitive market
And here is the screenshot of my mt4 history, when DD occurred, during a high impact GBP news
