According to the manual when setting up EntryDelay and an entry limit the trade opens either after the given delay time (default: 0 - no entry delay), or when the entry limit is met.

Doing following:

set(TICKS);
BarPeriod = 1440;

LifeTime = 10;
Entry = -1*PIP;
EntryDelay = 20000;

enterLong();

This should open a long trade a soon as the price decreases by 1 pip or if that does not happen open the trade after 20000 seconds.

I could not figure out how this works.

When I set up both the Entry is just ignored and I get the same result as if I only used EntryDelay on its own.

As an example some trades open just 1 minute after the bar opens when setting up Entry only. If I set up EntryDelay too this very same trade opens after 20000 seconds.
Shouldn't the trade open after 1 minute already as the entry limit was fulfilled first?

Attached the script I used.

Cheers

Could it be because EntryDelay is larger than EntryTime, causing the pending order to be canceled?
http://zorro-project.com/manual/en/timewait.htm

Thanks for your reply Dalla.

EntryDelay is in seconds whereas EntryTime is in bars (by default 1, in my case that's one day). 20000 sec is about 5.5 hrs so that's smaller than EntryTime. I also tried different numbers but the effect of EntryDelay overriding Entry is always the same.

Have you got any other guess what could cause this?

I would also expect that the Entry limit is hit before the Entry delay. At least, so I understand the manual. Otherwise it would be a bug. I'll forward this to the developers for looking into it.

I got confirmation that it was indeed a bug. Entry and EntryDelay are currently mutually exclusive, but it was not intended this way. This will be fixed in the next update.

Okay thx a lot for your confirmation jcl!