First of all, I have been following for some time and my thanks to all who have created this tool are well overdue - thank you! As I see it, this is performing brilliantly and doesn't need more and more tweaks. The fundamental question for the EA is can we identify when to turn it off and can we automate that? Until then, the low risk option is to manage regularly manually and follow the news calendar. I feel it out performs my ability to trade manually and really it is not possible to ask for more than that from an EA.
Two thoughts - I experienced the sudden reversal a couple of weeks ago but was away from my platform so didn't see it happen or how the dashboard behaved. I am not sure whether there is any way to simulate with back testing. Was there a moment where a certain number of currencies had flipped from strong to weak or visa versa which would have signalled a "black swan" event and could have closed all positions, preventing larger losses, and switched off until the dashboard had completed a re-balancing?
My other thought is more out of the box and might be too complex although experience tells me that if it is a good idea, with work a simple way will evolve. MAD is handling a mass of data - can we go one step further and simulate how the future should look? As soon as there is a deviation from that future, something has happened - this could be used as an automatic signal and it would be up to the trader to decide what level of deviation triggers close and shut down. Alternatively, it can be a manual signal and then possible to review, identify the cause, take action and trade accordingly - close, hedge etc.
Hope these comments are helpful - if not please file accordingly
