Either that, or work.

Getting 4 grand in first place may not be that easy, but it definetly ain't hard. Also, that money isn't going to just stay with you, you'll be spending it. And that's the point were Zorro would be useful.

getting 4 gradn is hard for me, because that would equal to four months of living - what i spend it for.

so in the end, you only make money if you have money. again, this is how the world works. the hard part is it to get the starting money, the rest is easy...

you not only need 4 grands, you need 4 grands you can completely squander without getting a crying fit afterwards.

Hiya.

What would be nice is if there was a "slow, steady and simple" script in Zorro that allowed us "not-so-rich" people to start with, say, $200 or $300. Zorro would be *much* more cautious, for much less gain...but, after, say, a year of running it, there would be a good chance of having $1k or more. Then, if the person wanted, they could 'up the risk' in Zorro a bit; using that $1k to possibly make that $4k in another year. Rinse, repeat. Each time someone felt more confident or had more money, they could 'up the risk'.

Me waiting 2 years to get $4k? Sure thing! I mean, that cash would just be sitting there and I could go about my normal "real work and family" life. I'd MUCH rather have a nice, slow and steady income than risk $4k in the virtual blink of an eye. If I lost it over that two year span it wouldn't hurt nearly as much.

Zorro is already about slow and steady income. You won't be going from $200 to $1000 in just a few months.
If it would hurt you to lose that money, don't invest it. Basically it's gambling nonetheless.


And I still don't really get why it should be free in the end.

At the current time, you can not trade with a capital of less than about $2000-$5000, dependent on your strategy script. This is not a restriction of Zorro, it is a requirement of the broker who demands a minimum margin of about $100 per trade. Due to the return fluctuations you'll then need several 1000 $ for trading safely. You can read details about that in the Zorro documentation.

Future Zorro versions will support special accounts with micro-lots. Then you can indeed trade with a few 100 $. This is intended for families in poor countries that can not afford a normal broker account.

With the beta version you better don't trade anyway - so this is only a theoretical restriction at the moment.

will it run on linux?

if it has to run 24h a day it would be nice if it could run on a raspberry pi (which only needs 1 watt and is noiseless).

(edit: i forgot that lite-c would also have to support arm cpus. :))

JCL, are you using Zorro yourself? Future Gamestudio development could benefit from that...

I bet $4k that it will run with Wine