I'm using simple money management rules: 1. Fixed risk per trade by using stoploss. 2. Sequence of N loss trades in a row is a signal to stop trading this day. 3. Daily loss X% leads to stop trading this day. 4. Trading lot is % of equity, but ...

I think the best option to make your strategy fully automated, once you've build EA and than you can backtest it, find how profitable it. The main problem with manual strategies is a human factor.

Yes, this is completely possible, but monthly return cannot be the same every month. We can talk about monthly return in average. Also such things depends on account leverage, trading instrument and etc.

News trading can involve huge slippages on most brokers, becuase of high volatility and huge spread. So think the problems arise not only on broker, but on their LPs too.

If you place pending orders like Buy Stop/Sell Stop right before the news, the price movement can trigger both orders because of volatility and huge spread. And if you set up Stop Loss fro both trades, than you can have two trades closed by Stop ...