The Drawdown Stop (Draw-down %) in Smart Grid, once hits the % threshold, not only causes the cbot to cease trading and closes the open positions (which, of course, is designed to do), but also switches off the cbot altogether and will not let it resume trading in the following trading sessions, days, etc. My understanding is that this parameter is designed to prevent catastrophic scenarios and/or limit risk to a certain percentage in any given period, not stopping the cbot completely and not trading at all afterwards.
I have compared this parameter with the one in Switchback (same parameter with identical settings) and it works just fine in Switchback; Once Draw-down % is hit, it carries on trading in the following session - which is not the case in Smart Grid; once draw-down % is hit, the cbot shuts down itself completely. This, if turned on, makes backtesting impossible as it is.
