Thanks for the input.

I don't want to rush anything and I certainly don't consider this a "get rich quick" scheme so I will go patiently step by step. For now my goal is to try and develop a strategy that will be profitable, even if only by a small percent.

I will keep the EA active at least for a month to see how it goes. Now it's been up for about 12 hours and has 4 wins and 1 loss, total of +30 pips. I still have to optimize the stop loss level but so far so good

May I ask what is the reason to optimize for 2005 and not 2006?

Thanks