barry wrote:I only started mine, the 2nd one, on 18 Sep, after the original looked so good, so that explains some or all of the difference. It's a demo account with Global Prime.

Of course I compared both with data sub-sets starting 19 Sep, but I still couldn't explain the difference. They might have different trades at the start, which effected subsequent trades.
But I also tried really hard to compare individual trades in the history. To me it appears that they behave differently.
For example look at the status at this moment:
- one has no open trades, nor open orders. Equity = Balance and it appears it does so most days.
- the other one has 24 open trades and 5 open orders, and it appears to leave most days in DD with open positions.
I forgot; are you both running the same Awesome version? That also might be a difference.
No right or wrong here, but IF there is a difference it may help to find ways toward a decreased DD behaviour.
If you can both put the MQ4 EA files and Set-file here, I'll gladly compare both with a Beyond Compare to find if they are truly identical.
Edit:
I could not find any Awesome 1g MQ4 that 1Direction refers to. Going through the thread 1g was put in post 1 on August 20. Unfortunately one can't compare or read compiled ex files. So if anyone still has a 1g please send it to me.
I really wished the older versions would remain in the thread so you could compare in detail how the code was improved in time. If I find the different version in time, I always love to load them in Beyond Compare and study the differences (which BC will flag in red).
1Direction H4PeakHiLo started Sept 9 with version 1g.
Barry started Sept 19.
I found that by Sept 13 Awesome was already at version 1m, with quite some changes according to information in the thread.