It's in the manual now. The page "Income with Z1 & Z2" has been updated. You have to go through the Zorro home page, the manual through the "help" tab doesn't get the updated version yet....or late least mine doesn't.

Ah. Okay. Thank you

Just a short reply. The Z2 running on the Amazon VPS is doing better. Made some good trades now and has now done more positive then negative pips :-)

It is good to hear that the VPS works for you. I was curious about it.

I think it will be handy for testing scripts, when I get the skills to write them....

Amazon VPS is working for me too.

Z2 was doing well for me too, but I closed it down and closed out the trades to install and run Z12 yesterday. Not doing so good so far.


I'm concerned that all this chopping and changing is ruining the test, Zorro needs to run constantly and consistently.

Wish I had an option to test more strategies simultaneously, as I'm kind of committed to testing on the spreadbetting platforms, and Amazon gets expensive with more than one VPS instance.

You are right. I will let Z2 now run for the next view weeks. Since yesterday it had some positiv trades. I have no direct solution to the problem of testing more than one strategy. I have another VPS which i bought for a monthly fee of 4,50€. It has 20GB HDD and 1GB RAM. Enough for another MT4 instance...

Do you need the VPS for the computing power to run more instances at the same time for testing different strategies? Would a more powerful & faster computer solve the problem or would you also need a better internet connection?

I remember the manual saying a fancier computer is necessary for testing a number of strategies at the same time.

Here's one that looks powerful & fast to me for cheap ( I don't know a lot about computers)

Anyway it has an 8 core processor and is under $400. The 6 core one is about $250. Maybe that would be better than the VPS?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8148341&CatId=7718

I think the Intel i7 is only a 4 core.

That seems like a fair price for a small Win VPS. Would you care to share where you have ordered that VPS?



Unless you're backtesting rather complex strategies on lower timeframes (<1h) Zorro is plenty fast and shouldn't require anything better than cheap commodity hardware. Also it can't use multiple cores from what I know (it's not internally multithreaded), so the only way to fully utilize today's multicore machines like the one you mention is to run multiple instances of Zorro, and backtest different strategies at the same time.

I believe Sundance is just looking for a cheap way to demo trade multiple strategies at once, which currently can be done only if you have multiple VPS/machines. Otherwise you get 'broker interface busy' errors. IIRC, that limit is lifted in the Sponsor edition.

Stopped Z1fx trading, closed all trades, balance $50222.

Installed 1.12.0beta, started demoing Z12 FXonly, Margin 100, Risk 50.

I thought Z12 was just available for Zorro S. I didn't realize it's available for demo now. It seems Z3 and Z5 are too.

So, how does the VPS work?
I set a VPS up and use a separate one for each FXCM demo?

I tried to set up an Amazon one for free, but it required a CC# and I didn't feel comfortable giving one. So, I found vps.me/ that has free ones too. No CC# required, but "something" didn't work during registration. It's getting late, I'll try again in the morning.

Z3 looks interesting. I'd like to try it and Z12 after getting the VPS going.