Point well taken, although please bear in mind that Synergy is based on identification of 4 market forces:

Price Action
Trend
Momentum
Market Strength.

It seems to me that it is not terribly important how one implements a system based on these forces, once the basic proposition is accepted. Malone chose to do it one way, and there could well be other ways. It may prove that the Malone manual system poses too many problems for implementation as an EA, since there are ambiguities in what constitutes an exit, and since signals for both exits and entries may be difficult to program efficiently with the indicators Malone has chosen. Perhaps the four forces can be better translated into an EA through other indicators, such as (for example):

Alligator
PSAR
Momentum (the indicator)
Stochastic Oscillator (plus Standard Deviation??)

It may also be desirable to substitute 2 moving averages on another oscillator (such as Force or RSI, or DeMarker) for the Alligator, as the latter may produce ambiguous signals due to wiggle on price bars.

Perhaps I shall try to mock something up in the old Phoenix template and then see where that goes.

autumn