Hello,
this is my first post.
I startet real about 1 week ago (18.7.2013) with 2000 € on FXCM.
Now the message of Zorro reads: 3040 +0 +1010 !!/////\
It is working pretty good, but what does the !! mean?
I see 7 winning and 1 loosing trade, but why !!

Regards
Wolfgang

If you go to the manual here: http://www.zorro-trader.com/manual/
and then click on "Trading" at left, it explains these codes

The ! means the trailing stop is in profit. From 2000 € to 3040 € in one week? Which margin / risk settings do you use? I think your risk is much too high for a 2000 € balance.

copy that.

Wolfgang do you use the out of the box margin? Do a test and look at the needed capital info Zorro shows you. It should be less than you have on your account...

This is plain Z12s with Margin 100 and Risk 10.
I know, in the test is a drawdown of about 7000 €, but the equity is increased in the time from start to begin of the drawdown from 2000 € to 60000 €

I have to agree to the others. You have been lucky with the EUR 1000 win, but a margin of 100 is too high for a EUR 2000 account. I would set the margin to 10 or 20. At 100, even a minor drawdown can wipe the account, and minor drawdowns happen all the time.

With Z12s strategy i set my margin to 4 with a 1000€ account and will set it higher when the account grows...

WolfgangS (& others if correction is needed),

I'm a newbie too, but my understanding is different than what you described. The Tested equity growth is just what that simulation produced. The actual equity growth in Trading can be very different. The DD and capital required that are presented are meant to be adequate with a high confidence level, but even they are not absolutely certain to be OK.

In short, use the capital Tested for your Margin & Risk settings (or the other way 'round ), but keep watching in case you're the one 2+ (or whatever) standard deviations out.

HTH (& is more or less correct ).