Originally Posted by saintmo

The main problem hindering profitability is the Stoch upper and lower targets. They are at 80 and 20 now but altering them can make this a very profitable EA--versus a losing one. Unfortunately, a minor variation in targets can alter the results considerably. So I quit testing with the thought that I was overoptimizing and probably couldn't replicate forward what had occured backward.

However my message is, that even though changing the stoch targets runs counter to the manual method, I couldn't find the EA to be profiable without changing stochs. So for others to help, you may want to offer stoch upper and lower as external (testable) parameters.

saintmo