New Oanda support

So far Zorro has supported FXCM as main broker. But FXCM is not available in the US anymore and has anyway raised their deposit limits for API accounts. So we're now supporting Oanda as affiliate broker. Oanda is a 'market maker' broker with a large selection of index and commodity CFDs, free historical price data, a free API, no commission, no minimum monthly investment, and no minimum lot size.

Zorro has plugins for the Oanda REST V1 and the new V2.0 API. For V2.0 you'll need the new Oanda plugin from the Zorro beta version at http://opserver.de/down/ZorroBeta.zip.

We also support Oanda with a free Zorro S subscription in some countries. If you open an Oanda live account with $1000 deposit, you'll get a free 3-months Zorro S subscription, with $4000 deposit you'll get a 12-months subscription. For claiming the subscription, open your account here:

https://register.oanda.com/?div=4&cc=GB#/sign-up?ib=980913

and contact Zorro support after the first trade. This offer is only available for users that do not have yet an Oanda live account and are not from the USA, Canada, Australia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Japan.

Thanks for doing this. I downloaded the beta and set up an Oanda demo account in the US. The beta had no Z strategies - so to test one - I copied the Oanda plugin to a Zorro 154 plugin folder. It worked well - it connected to my account - showed the correct demo account balance and appeared to wait for a signal like normal. However when it came time to trade it generated an exception :

{USD/JPY:VO:l6205} Long 7@111.0000 Risk 0$ ts at 16:08:30
!Order: {"errorMessage":"af::exceptions::Exception* Unsupported ContentType: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
(USD/JPY:VO:L) Can't open 14 @ 111.00 at 16:08

I let run for a couple days but same every time. Just wanted to post in case it helps. If I can do more to test let me know.

J

I got the same Oanda error messages too, setup is the newest Zorro 1.54 version as well with demo account in Germany.

Oanda v20 API seems only to accept "Content-Type: application/json" so maybe there is still used "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" somewhere in the Zorro Oanda Plugin?

I've now been running Oanda in demo for a few weeks and it seems to run fine with version 158. The only thing I have noticed is that at the weekend instead of producing a nice msg it prints a variety of errors. This might be demo only I don't know. I don't have the msgs saved from last week but I can print them here next Friday if it happens again.

With my strategy I prefer to set Weekend = 7 with Oanda. Ciao

Thanks will try !