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Yep I realize all that.
Had Pro for a couple of weeks, backtested several systems I'm already familiar with. Customized some. Downloaded a few BLOX from the marketplace, combined a few etc.
As I stated previously I found that the existing ADX system wasn't filtering trades as I wanted it to and that ...

Basically your suppositions at the beginning of the reply are correct.
With the exception of the long only. For discussion yes long only but
once I understand the logic and code required it can easily be converted to short also.

However what I'd like to do to determine the trend is to test the ADX ...

I am a newbie to programming. I have backtested the ADX system that is supplied. However the system takes a long trade when the ADX is above a certain level and the DMI+ is above the DMI-.
However many of the largest loosers are when the ADX is above the desired level because the issue was in a long ...