I am not sure what your portfolio looks like so I can not comment on it.

My personal approach is to get a number of strategies that have 75 or 85 win/loss and weed out the poor performers on a regular basis.. using the MT4 Tracker that Sleytus developed.

I keep replacing the poor performers.

I guess I have over simplified things.

Regarding the tapes and instructions...... those are to help people to learn to use the software... they are not a definitive guide to automated trading. We have to learn that from our own education and experience. We have to try things until we do everything we can think of to make a strategy work.

I suggest that you keep your strategies very simple and ensure that they have high metrics, be quick to ditch a poor performer.

The market changes its face at random, there is not patterns that we can always depend on, we have to be nimble.

I get around the stagnation by having a lot of different strategies, so they are opening trades at different times.

I use the smallest lot size my broker offers....., increasing SLOWLY as the account builds.

Keep in mind that patterns that worked  two years ago may not be viable today.

My last idea is......... did you do walk forward on your data?

Thanks for the recommendations.I do not use much indicators when am generating strategies.I use maximum 4 indicators.I set the FSB software generator settings this way "Maximum opening logic slots=2 and minimum opening logic slots=2 "
.I have not done walk forward analysis.How do I do that in the SPAM? When you say you keep replacing the poor performers how exactly do you do that?Do you remove the poor performers every week , everyday , every month or what?How exactly do you do that?Thanks for the tips and recommendations.very much appreciated.Bless you and green pips to you Good Sir.

How long have you been doing this....the reason I ask is not to point out your experience in FX market but to highlight that when you create a strategy you do notice that there are drawdown and stagnation periods....looking simply at the graph..we see it doubled the account in a year and we put it in a demo/live account...

If there is a drawdown of 30% and there is stagnation for 20 days...then it is very possible you entered the market at that time...

Lets say that in your backtest you started with $1,000 in Jan 2017 and by November it shows account doubled....however in April there was drawdown of 30 percent. Now imagine you had entered the market in April with this EA...in the end it will make money but a person standing in April would be looking at their account with a loss of $300.

This happens...I have seen people do a backtest on 10 years and not realizing that in the last 6 months the EA did nothing for them (in the backtest)..the graph looks amazing though.

I hope you can make sense of my rambling...

Hi,
You will need to find out right path to success by yourself. There is no single right path and there is ton of losing ones. Best thing in my opinion is to start testing different ways of making things (of course with demo money, or using OOS) and see what works for you. Also I recommend to make some study if you are green in this area. There are some great books etc. :  https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Systems- … ni+trading, https://www.amazon.com/Building-Winning … GKTBSFYFWR, http://www.priceactionlab.com/Blog/the-book/ . Also you can listen some interesting interviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdnzT5 … TOiDsPhqcg, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXtFh3 … ORL1tZxKrQ.
By studying this stuff you will find variety of different ways how people make automated trading work.

Try to answer these random questions:
How much data/bars is right?
How much indicators/variables is OK?
How to optimize strategies?
How much trades is OK?
How much return/risk expect from strategies?
What is turning off point of single strategy or portfolio?
What is data mining bias / curve fitting?
Is generated or manual created strategies better?
Does out of sample testing makes things better?
What is walk forward analysis and does it make better systems?
What is System Parameter Permutation ?
What shortfall from a backtested results I can expect when I go live?
... and in the process you will find this list endless with more questions what needs to be answered. And probably in the way you will find out what really matters and works Also by asking some questions you are forced to make experiments, and some great finding awaits you.

For me, automated generated strategies on short time period did not worked out like you. But I found some successes using more data, and using OOS check. Also I got some success with some manually created strategies.

thanks for the tips.Very much appreciated..