flopps posted: tradingshed.... Sorry i should have made myself clearer regarding Demo. I used this EA in a Demo for the 2 week trial. What I meant by my statement is that for a long term evaluation of a EA "Robot", I believe it needs a live account. The only reason I chose a starting balance of 10K, was because I wanted to use the same settings/pairs etc as the developers account. The problem with Demo is that there is no slippage, no re-quotes and no spread variation. Now with this particular EA that probably doesn't matter so much, however I'm just looking...