Drawdawn spikes are expected on counter-trend systems.
EA try to aim point of trend reversal or near it. but many times have to place additional orders as first ones didn't hit the trend reversal zone...
Also settings have big impact on this, too low triggers will cause a lot of such orders, too high trigger will miss completely desired point and will not trade almost at all.
About OpenOnTick, I will not remove, relax
I currently try to have AutoReverse option, in other words to detect when is good to go on trend and when is better to go on counter-trend and switch modes automatically.
Until now I got irrelevant results so if anyone have any idea about proper way to do this please say.