Very good analysis Verdi55.

Do you have an example of code that you add to your strategies to adjust the spread throughout the day and on different days of the weeks? It shouldn’t be too hard to write but if someone else has done and was willing to share it it could give us all a few hours ofour lives back to do something else.

Even if the spread settings do not exactly match the live market closer it better than nothing at all for improved accuracy.

On a separate note – I’m not keen on strategies that exit after a certain number of bars if in profit or otherwise. There is a huge potential for curve fitting with ideas like that. For the same reason I hate strategies that sell up everything and go flat at certain times. If you are in a trade either stick with it or get out if it is going wrong – not just because a certain time has arrived.