First of all, thank you for writing such a nice product like Zorro, and especially for providing it for free!

As a new user, I'm slightly confused. The manual says not to have more than $7000 in trading account. It also says to open demo account with FXCM to test the app. But opening a practice account with FXCM automatically opens $50000 account, without any chance to change the starting capital?!

So, now that I've started the app for the first time to see how it works, and still waiting for the first trade, I'm not sure if trading is blocked because the account is over $7000, or if I just need to wait a little bit more for the strategy to pick up?

My suggestions:

- if the $7000 limit relates only to real accounts, I suggest that fact clearly stated in the manual
- if even the demo accounts must be below $7000, then you should instruct how to accomplish that with FXCM practice accounts, because it's not obvious at all

Once again, thanks for the very nice application and great tutorial, I enjoyed reading it and see a lot of potential in Zorro!

While at first impressions, I also see some errors. I don't know if they're fatal or not.

Z1fx (oP group) .
Undefined function: SATR.

and

Error 046: EUR/USD price gap at bar 154

But the strategy is running, although it hasn't traded yet. If the error above is not fatal, maybe it could spell "Warning" instead of "Error"?

Thank you for your post. Yes, of course the 7K limit is for real accounts only. I thought this were mentioned in the manual, but you're right - it's missing and will be added.

The errors can be safely ignored. The SATR error was due to compiling the fx versions with a slightly different version. Both error messages will be gone in the next update.

Hello everyone, I'm new here.
Please let me first thank the staf for the wonderful work they are doing, Congrats!
I firmly believe Zorro is a great project and also lite-c programming is very interesting and powerful tool: although unfortunately I've got no programming experience, I decided to follow your workshops so I can try to encode an interesting strategy I found.

In the meantime I activated Zorro on an existing demo account as well on a micro real account: same warnings as above also in my real account but Jcl has already provided an answer.

I will keep you informed about developments/results.
Thank a lot.

Regards

Thank you for clarification, jcl!

Oh well, as the Z1fx strategy trades on H4 bars, I guess weeks could pass before the first trade. So instead of waiting for it to happen, I guess I rather spend time investigating Zorro's other capabilites. This, of course, generates more newbie questions...

I run backtest on the Z1fx and looked at the generated graph, which is rather confusing. I've attached it so that we look at the same graph. What I don't understand is how in the period between approximately Feb 12 and Jun 12 there are only winning trades (and one big at that!), but the equity curve is falling?

The equity curve is the total equity. The price curve and trades shown are only for the asset that you selected before clicking [Result], in this case EUR/USD.

Showing all trades of all assets would make the chart somewhat hard to look at.

Ah, I see. And I was wondering what is that asset selector for if I'm trading asset portfolio?! So you managed to answer two questions at once. Thanks!

Still, if possible, I would suggest to implement per asset equity curve, and show together with the appropriate asset trades on charts. Then add 'Portfolio' or 'Total' option to graph the total equity. In some future version, time allowed, of course.

The chart as it is is mighty confusing.

You have a point here. We'll probably show the per-asset equity curve also in the chart.

Hello everyone,

while trading on a real micro account with about $200 capital, sometimes the program gives me messages like

[EUR/USD:BB:S] Skipped: Total Margin 3.

Or recently

[USD/CAD:AT:S] Skipped - Margin 1 Min 3

In accordance with the information I found on this site I have reduced the margin to 5, leaving the risk at 10. With these parameters, in test the capital required il less than $100. Actually there is only 1 position open so it seems to me a little strange thing.

As a niewbie could someone help me to interpret the msg, please?

Thanks.

PS: Sorry, missing info, the scrip is Z2fx