Thanks jcl.
Are you sure about the plotting schedule? I've experienced the chart being first plotted in much less than 1 day. And also updated in much <1 day.
What's the definition of "day" in this case? 24 hours from Trade start? Or midnight UTC after Trade start?
With BarPeriod=1 in this strategy, there are quite a few completed bars since starting over 9 hours ago...

There is also a completed trade as well as a new trade entered since restart... Still no plot. (But, yes, still <1 day by either definition above.)
Re. connection: Although my account is with FXCM UK, I'm running on a VPS in NYC. The beta API sounds like an improvement, but I'm wary of adding more variables. Plus, this is so far only happening in Demo on my test machine. But I'm happy to run the beta API on my test machine if it will help to have someone else trying it, though. Does it fix the Equity bug?!

Re. Stop, No, No, that's what I've been doing per above with the unexpected results noted above.
Thanks.