After a one week beta test, Zorro version 1.14 was now released! It can be downloaded here:

http://server.conitec.net/down/Zorro_setup.exe


The following new features have been implemented:

- Improved troubleshooting and better stability of external broker interfaces.

- While trading, a click on [Result] prints a list of open trades with entry, current, and stop prices.

- The login function can be used for temporarily logging out from the broker.

- The memory function can be used for determining the current memory footprint of the script, and for finding memory leaks.

- The reverse functions are convenient for limiting the number of trades. Their use is explained in workshop 5.

- The msg function can now be used for modeless message boxes, useful for trade alerts without interrupting the script.

- The stop loss distance is now displayed in the daily profit/loss reports with Verbose >= 2.

- OptimalF factors are now also calculated for long and short trades together. This gives a more precise result than averaging the long and short OptimalF factors.

- A "seconds" function was added for evaluating intrabar time.

- The EntryDelay variable can be used for improving profits by entering trades at the optimal moment.

- A step by step description of adding new assets and downloading price data was added to the manual.

- The Capital variable allows to set up an initial capital and calculate the CAGR.

- The "advise" function can now generate trading rules for multiple assets and algos.

- The BarPeriod variable can now be set from an optimize call, except for WFO.

- TimeFrame can now generate individual time frames that are aligned to external events.

- loadHistory can now be used for updating or adding new assets without downloading historic price data.

- The state of the input sliders are now stored together with the open trades, and restored when trading is resumed.

- The state of the Account scrollbox is now preserved when Zorro is restarted.

- The Weekend variable can now be set to 2 for preventing that bars end during the weekend.

- The Verbose variable can now be used to set up message verbosity and diagnostics mode via script. It is also added to the Z.ini file for the included systems.

- The diag.txt file is now separately stored for every strategy.

- The Z3 and Z5 strategies were improved. All Z strategies have been recompiled and got new data sets.


All bugs reported for Zorro 1.12 have been fixed, with exception of the wrong FXCM results and equity display, which can only be fixed by FXCM.

Many of the new features come from suggestions on the forum. A detailed description can be found at http://manual.zorro-trader.com/new.htm. For updating from Zorro 1.12, please read the section "Updating from previous versions".

Thanks, thats great.

By the way, do you still recommend setting weekend = 4?

No, you can leave it at 2. The weekend = 4 setting of the previous version did not really help prevent the crashes, but apparently the workarounds inside the DLL did help.

I just installed the new 1.14 and tried the [Result] button.
It reports wrong profits by factor 10 and 100 in the Zorro-Window for the following:
USOil shown = 1$ real = 105$
SPX500 shown = -12$ real = -120$

correct results for
US30, USD/CHF and GBP/USD

Regards
Wolfgang

Yes - see above. This is long known, but we can not help it at the moment. It does not affect trading.

Nice work! Good to see the stability improvements.

I started running Z12 on Zorro 1.14 last week with all default settings. I ran it on an Amazon VPS and didn't touch it either before or during the weekend. After the markets opened, I went to check on it and saw the two attached warnings. Any idea what this is or what happened?

Here is what appeared in the Zorru window after I started again:


Z.ini: MMax 100, Weekend 2, Verbose 2

Loading GBP/USD prices.. 2074 h
Loading USD/CHF prices.. 2072 h
Loading XAG/USD prices.. 2100 h
Loading XAU/USD prices.. 2100 h

Trade: Z3 portfolio 19.08.2013
Read Z3.fac Z3.par
[498: Mon 19.08. 05:17] 1379.34
[498: Mon 19.08. 08:00] 1379.34
Copied to Clipboard!

Please download this file:

http://server.conitec.net/down/FXCM.zip

It contains a diagnostics version of the FXCM plugin. Unzip it into your Plugin folder, so that it overwrites the previous FXCM.dll.

Then edit Z.ini and set Verbose to 14. Afterwards start Zorro again, and continue trading with Z3.

If it then happens again, you'll have a Z3diag.txt file in your Log folder. Please post it here and we'll see the reason of the problem.

I am using Zorro 1.14 with the MT4 bridge it crashes when i am restarting Zorro and it has any open trades.

It can be reroduced using the following steps:
1. Open Zorro and start trading
2. Wait for Zorro to open a trade(s)
3. Stop Zorro
4. Start trading
5. The trade with the smallest tradeId is closed
6. Zorro crashes with an exception

Edit: It is related to the BarPeriod that is set. If i set it to a BarPeriod=1 (for testing) it does work. For a BarPeriod=60 it doesnot.
For BarPeriod=60 i get a gap error for BarPeriod=1 i don't so it might be some memory allocation issue?

No, the bar period setting can normally not cause MT4 trades to be closed or Zorro to crash. This has most likely another reason. Can you post your script here, so that we can see what the problem is?