Starting Zorro

Hi,
first of all, thanks for sharing this software.
So I just installed, and I complete new with zorro but not with soft and market, and it seems it doesn't work. (I'm sure it works, but I don't know how).
If I try to do a test or a training, I have err 055 history missing.
I understand I don't have history, i agree, but Please
how can I have history? and wihich format?
Can I copy some history file? if yes which directory?
Market must be open or not for use it?

Thanks in advance.

Hi dpt,

In order for strategies to run, you must download historical data from your broker or a data provider like Stooq for example.

Here in http://zorro-project.com/download.php at the end, you can find and download free data from Oanda for several assets. Copy the content in your History folder.

If you want to download/update your historical files you must use the function assetHistory:

http://zorro-project.com/manual/en/loadhistory.htm

Those are the basics.

Thanks so much for your answer,
my english is not so good and I'm not sure to understand all the explanations.
So I understood the data are or in dayli name.t6 or in m1 nameyear.t6 or in ticks, but if I have hour data?? How can I do? I can't?

Thanks again!!

I am not an expert but from my knowledge I am pretty sure that Zorro use data in this form: tick,1 minute, daily

I never have used the ticks so I do not know well...
But if you want a TradingSystem that "think" in Hours, you must have the data in 1 minute and then use the command "Barperiod=60"

I hope this explanation helps you

Bye

hey dpt, welcome to zorro

SO first of all, training and testing is sth very different. then im curious about which script and asset combination did u ty?

downloading history is very easy. log in with broker data and use the download script. it copys the files to \ZorroHistory

if u select the download script and press test u can chose between tick(t1),1min(t6) or stooq data f.e. even if tickdata is only available in zorro S - for the beginning 1min data is absolutly fine.

the second script about data u must know is "CSVExport" which creates a CSV file as u wish to have it. u can modified it as u please to get alternative formats like yyy.mm.dd hh:MM



and u can download the history from the zorro main page.

greetings

Hi and thanks for all,
That I wanted to do, it's to use some datas I already have, and they are in data frame 60.
But now it's ok, I downloaded the 1 min data from home zorro page, and I will add the datas miss from my broker or from tickstory.

Thanks again for your help.