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EA to catch strong momentum to open "insurance" hedge trade

What is the most effective way to have an EA catch a sudden strong momentum in one driection? I'm currently using a trading strategy where I have large trades open over a long time. Always only buy trades (to avoid swap rates). I was thinking that I could sort of "buy insurance" against a sudden

Does information in the chart of an EA slow down Strategy Tester performance?

I had an EA built which has lots of information displayed in the chart. The EA performs extremely slow on strategy tester . Would it run faster if the EA did not have to display all the information. Or is it irrelevant. Thanks for some insight