Hi,

Happy new year to all :-)

I'm running the Z1 system, on an Oanda paper account, in preparation to go live with real money. It all runs smooth apart from one thing. I get several "skipped trades" and can't figure out what I do wrong.

Below is one example with XAU. During the last two months, I had the same issue with NAS100, US30, US500, GER30.

[Mon 22-12-19 00:21] 3980 -19.96 0/3 (1.21661)
(XAU/USD:HU:L) Skipped (Margin 105 Min 358)

As i understand the documentation, this means that zorro skipped the trade, because the margin requirements for one lot is 358, and zorro wants to buy 105 margin only.

But if i open my account at Oanda, I see margin requirements of 91 for one lot XAU, and not the 358 reported by zorro. With the current price around 1820, zorro assumes margin of 20%(358/1820) while the account has margin of 5%(91/1820).

This margin requirements should come from the broker API if available, or from parameters in the asset csv file.
XAU has the following parameters in the assetFix.csv:
Multiplier = 1
MarginCost = -1

With correct multiplier and 1% margin in asset csv file, I don't understand where Zorro gets the 20% margin requirements from?

Hopefully you can help me sort it out, thanks a lot...

regards
Anders