Originally Posted by hast29
@AndrewAMD - Hi Andrew, are you an expert to IB API ? I would prefere, that the API does not read the open trades from the Broker, but rather from the .trd file. Because strategies (like f.e.Z9) close my trades from other strategies, because they do not fit the rebalance. Can you advise ?
You can connect to your IB account with Phantom trading mode (Real=3). Then manually place the trades.
https://manual.zorro-project.com/account.htm

Otherwise, you can write your own Z9 variant from scratch.