Sooo hi all,
Thankyou in advance for answering my question...

I've attached an image for discussion about the log error messages.


Zorro 2.5.1
Mt5 bridge s/w

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the log error messages, indicate Zorro has lost control of MT5, thats the issue...:-)

From my perspective, it looks like Zorro tries to close a trade which has been already closed manually - as I don't see any open trades on the chart.

And it fails to do so.

Or what message do you mean in particular?

Have you seen the trade was open before?

If this is the actual case and Sunbuddy is running a single(!) asset strategy, then it's best to remove all related *.trd, *.bak & *.dbl files from the zorro/data directory and restart Zorro. Make sure you make a backup before doing so.

Hi Thanks for trying to help. My response to your assumptions is below.

"Zorro tries to close a trade which has been already closed manually".... MT5 appears to be closing the trade first as the stop has been transmitted to the MT5 terminal and its faster than Zorro....

"If this is the actual case and Sunbuddy is running a single(!) asset strategy,"...mmm, I didn't make up the problem for my own enjoyment I can assure you.... It is the martingale strategy straight out of the box so nothing fancy except I changed the bars to 1 minute to see if this software was still full of bugs like it was many years ago when I last tried it. This time I'm persisting....for a while....

sounds legit, well, if it's trying to close already closed by SL trade that's sounds like a bug

I've also started to connect it with MT4 and had quite a lot of issues - but managed to fix them https://opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=486526

You could try with MT4 or wait from someone else's answers.

I know that current last version of Zorro is not considered stable, but I'm not sure how to download the latest stable anyway.

Also you're using this one right?



I'm a new to Zorro as well but it looks like it only sets up SL and TP and should delegate this to broker - don't manage the trade itself.

Maybe there is some flag needed to set this up explicitly?

One of the things with MT5 to try is to add `set(PLOTNOW + NFA)` since MT5 works with positions not individual trades AFAIK

https://zorro-project.com/manual/

So as I read in the Zorro manual it manages its own Stop and TakeProfit, yet in this case it passes the stop to MT5 but not the TakeProfit. (BTW please will someone try it on their own machine and confirm they have the same issue using the martingale strategy on 1 minute BarPeriod?)

Also I didn't mention but this:
if(NumOpenTotal == 0) {
if(random() < 0)
enterShort();
else
enterLong();
Also seems to wait till the next bar.... That's also a bug in my opinion as you ought to have to program the wait till the next bar and normally checking for (NumOpenTotal == 0) ought to be on the next tick.....

STILL NO ANSWER on this issue yet just conjecture....