Free Zorro 1.5x functional at all?

Apologies if I sound like a broken record, I could not connect free Zorro to anything some months ago, and still cannot connect to anything. I see in another post that indeed FXCM real API is not an option, but I could not connect the demos either. I did not try the MT4 bridge which is not free, I guess it works, but then the other question comes up, again: anyone making money with the Z strategies, or even without? Especially with the MT4 bridge, it should not be an issue to have MyFXbook verification and such, but I do not see any. The user "sphin" had some Z tests but deleted them, probably did not go well. I agree, as some other thread says, that the idea is more to have a programming platform than a free winning strategy, but anything OBVIOUSLY working would be nice . User "liftoff" left his Z-test when loss was at 91%l

Aha, reading around I saw that jcl is more or less proud there is no MyFXbook and such, perhaps the info belongs to the FAQ, if not to the main pages. But still, what can we make of the absence of any other verification!

My Z strategies did well until 01/15 of 2015 when Z4 and Z5 expired and their expirations made my other accounts at the same broker unavailable for a longer time. At least politically correct ...

Are you looking for verification that the Z strategies "work" or you looking for verification of the efficacy of Zorro as a tool for developing and simulating trading strategies? If the latter, you can test Zorro's accuracy by comparing simulated and real results using the same history and the same broker settings.