Well, the year has finished on my live trading in the middle experiment. December started with yet more losses, but finished nicely. All trades are closed for 2017.
December finished with a net profit of $ 25.69.
Added to my losses from November, I finished the August-December live test down $ 31.90. I've learned a lot, and the changes I made that were implemented for December came out with a profitable month. I let the EA run hands off for the month except for one trade I closed accidentally for a $ 1.31 profit.
I've attached the modded version of the EA that Steve changed, which allows using the Sixths lines as markers for setting a trailing stop, along with the 1 hour .set file I am using in case anyone wants to play around with it and try different things. I've also attached the Sixths as bands modded indi (see earlier post for explanation), and an indi that provides the daily ATR for a pair in pips, which I now use as a TP.
I will leave this live going forward. Hopefully, with everything I've learned, I will avoid anything close the disastrous November the EA experienced. Time will tell if this will work out or prove profitable, but I plan on leaving it hands off as much as possible. From the start, the goal of this test has been to find an EA that someone could use with an account of as little as $ 1,000 (or $100 if you could find a broker that supported $100 minimum lot sizes instead of $1,000.
Brief summary of my settings moving into 2018:
Max Trades=1
Trading only in the middle
SL=200
TP=Daily ATR (365 periods, 1.0 multiplier) , so my TP is different for every pair.
Close on opposite FB, but only when SS agrees
Sixths - set to 240 bars
UseCozybookTrailingStop=true
CloseTradesAtOppositePeakLine=true
The Cozybooks trailing stop gets triggered if price breaks the outside sixths line on a profitable trade, with the trailing stop set to the trading line (yellow line on the sixthsasmodded indi). As the yellow line moves further into profit, the trailing stop moves with it, which works nicely on a big move.
Closing at the opposite peak line means that if I have a buy trade, it will close if price breaks the lower sixths line and vice versa. So big losing trades will either close due to hitting the outside sixths line, or a 200 pip SL, whichever is less.
Once a trade is opened, it gets closed only by one of these events:
Price hits TP (Daily ATR365 1.0)
Price breaks outside upper sixths line on buy, or lower sixths line on sell, and then comes back to the yellow line
Price hits opposite outside sixths line
Price hits 200 pip SL
Superslope changes color and an opposite FB signal comes up.
Steve, TJF, and everyone else who helped along the way, thanks for all of your contributions!
I've made enough changes along the way that I will reset my counter for 2018, starting at zero. My goal is still 20% return per year, which would be $200 in the first year on my $1,000 investment.
Looking forward to 2018!
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Apparently I was giving in and sending you the PM while you were writing out your reply. The last attempt I made resulted in the EA bringing back the dreaded 130 error continuously after it had disappeared from the EA for two months. That was all it took. I give in. 
Winnings are all gone, and I now have a loss of $ 57.59 (or about 5.8%) on the account. Over 85% of the losses were confined to EURGBP, EURJPY and GBPAUD, so running less pairs isn't necessarily a guarantee of limiting losses.