Hello,


sometimes I stop the system without closing the trades and, after starting it again, the system loads the history and resumes with the trades of the last run, as expected.

One annoying thing is that when I start the system, it ALWAYS requests the history from the broker and this means almost 7 months of minute data per asset.

I tried creating a Z12.ini file with the content below and I deleted the z.ini file from the Strategy directory.
In the Z12.ini I set the Preload flag to 1. So, it is supposed, the script will load the available quotes from the already downloaded history files and only request from the broker what is missing.

This did not work.

Has somebody a hint what I could do to avoid these unnecessary requests to the broker?


Thanks in advance.

EC

Hello,

one reason could be that the two accounts have different leverage. My broker lets me define the leverage independently for each account.


Best regards,

EC

One thing that always interested me is how other Traders are progressing. I'd like to know how your *Roadmap* so far looked like, what big Challenges did you overcome and which Realisations paved your way?
How did you get where you are today?
My Roadmap so far looks kinda like this:

- Trading is easy. Buy low sell high. Duh. Imma build a trading bot.
- My bot doesn't bot
- *Searching for the magic indicator*
- Getting swayed by Trading Gurus
- Actually Researching the Gurus. Turns out they're broke.

- After much search, realising that there's no Magic indicator. But shurely there must be a working combination of them?
- TA Systems don't work. I'll try discretionary Trading.
- Running with my head against a wall for half a year trying to get at least an edge in discretionary trading.
- Realising that what I'm doing is completely stupid.

- Actually thinking, what it would take to make money in the financial Markets.
- Kinda get together, what a system should look like, what you would exploit, how different approaches to the market work etc.
- Testing my ideas (No strategies, just asumptions on how to build strategies, etc.)
- Finally realising the existence of Inefficienies in the markets

- Starting to build strategies in TradingView, cause I don't want to program my own engine
- Realising the importance of Simplicity
- Realising the importance of exits
- Realising the importance of filters

- After many difficulties with Tradingview (well. what would you expect) researching for better, easily programmable Backtesting engines
- Finding Zorro (great btw.)
- Reading through all the stuff
- Confirming some of my findings, getting introduced to new ones
- Finally a profitable (heavily inspired but selfbuild) strategy

- Learning how to find new ideas for strategies (by not copying others from the web but actually getting own ideas)
- Creating strategies (mostly unprofitable) with the occasional winner
- Building a portfolio of profitable strategies

Well, that's how I got where I am. Still struggling with finding filters. And beeing amazed at JCl's findings.
So how looked your journey? Where are you still struggling. Would love to kow.