Acidburn, unfortunately I turned on Z1fx strategy only when I'm at my desk. Pls take into account what Jcl as already explained above: of course it is not so relevant but I also do not have at the moment open positions on Z1fx. I think it's all a result of market conditions.
As a confirmation of this you may consider that on my 2 other accounts running Z2 & Z2fx, 24/24, Zorro is not opening new positions since last week, just continuing to manage them.
At the beginning I had your same feeling, then with a little patience I verified that at the right time Zorro opens and closes positions independently. Trust me, have faith.

OK, I'll be patient. Thanks for a nice words.

You're Welcome.

I spent last week watching my nails grow, while I was waiting for the first trade on Z1fx to happen. Had to cut the nails by the end of the week without a trade.

This morning I installed brand new 1.06, unzipped history files just in case, and started the bloody thing again, and voila! Had the first trade in a matter of hours. And a valid one if I may add, shorting EURUSD. Yay! I might get rich after all.

Great news, Acidburn: unfortunately I probably had my test pc off at that time and so no trade for me on Z1Fx...

As Z1fx happily trades, I'm less and less confused. So this thread will die soon, and I'll open another one with more appropriate name.

So, just one more question before it dies (AFAIC), currently the textbox labeled Server says 'Out of sync'. Does it have anything to do with switch to daylight saving time that happened this weekend? Is that something to worry about?

I'm using fxcm.co.uk (UTC aka GMT), and Zorro is in CEST time zone (UTC + 2 currently). The FXCM server reports 16:46, the machine that is running Zorro 18:46, so everything seems OK. Why out of sync?

The only thing I tried is stopping and restarting Zorro, but it didn't change a thing.

Out of sync means that the Windows API UTC time on your PC is different to the server UTC time. If the server time is correct, maybe it's something with your PC? Can you check if the local time zone is set up correctly?

I turned on 'Automatically adjust clock for DST' and fixed one hour offset that happened as a result and it seems good now, no more "Out of sync" message.

The thing is, this is a virtual machine and the host is already adjusting the clock per DST rules, so I had that checkbox turned off. But, it confused Zorro, although the time was OK, but some calculation that depends on the timezone and/or DST status failed, obviously.

I'll see what I can do with the configuration on the host, although I somehow liked it this way (guest machine doesn't deal with time, just uses what the host provides, and host is prefectly synchronized).

Thanks for the info. Zorro uses the Windows API function "GetGmtTm" for getting the UTC time. This API function seems to be confused by the PC setting. We can't do much about it, but it's good to know. This problem should affect other programs on your PC too when they use the UTC time, not only Zorro.

Yeah, I guess it's not worth (nor fun) chasing timezone issues. Time is better spent working on algorithms and other more important stuff (like charting, to name one).

Thank you for holding my hand while I was taking baby steps with Zorro!