George you make some good points. That leads to two ideas that might help this EA.

1) Maybe some piece of code where the user could input certain hours of the day to trade. I recall that the Kijun-Sen EA had this feature since it was designed only to trade at certain times.

2) The sideways market. This seems to be the key. If we could identify a sideways market and filter the EA so that it only trades during those times ... But that may be harder than it sounds. As hard as it is to identify trending periods ... could be the same problem trying to identify sideways periods.

One other thing comes to mind. If we use a feature that turns the EA off and on from time to time, what happens to the trades that are open when the EA turns off? We would have to make sure that the EA still manages those trades even though it is set to not start fresh again.