A new beta version was uploaded, with the new Oanda plugin. Oanda offers some interesting features, for instance trading with minimum volume.

http://manual.zorro-project.com/oanda.htm

The link to http://www.oanda.com goes to www.fxcm.com/uk/ there.

Seems someone from FXCM hacked the manual...

Is an Assets file from an Oanda demo account good for backtesting? Does it have values comparable to what a real account would have?

As to my knowledge, the Oanda demo account uses the same asset parameters as the real account.

Thanks jcl.

When the IB plugin arrived, I recall the many qualifications & the statement that it wasn't really suited for the Z systems.

There is none of that for Oanda! Is it therefore safe to assume that our strategies based on the manual's ideas, and possibly the Z systems themselves, will work as well on Oanda as on FXCM?

Thanks.

P.S. - Are you also an IB for Oanda as you once were for FXCM?

Not jcl but you should probably back test with an Oanda assets file before you get too excited. It's significantly more expensive than FXCM so unless you're trading seriously low volume FXCM will probably be a better choice.

FXCM and Oanda are in fact not very different in costs. You must consider the commission, which adds about 0.7 pips to the FXCM spread. - We're no IB for Oanda.

A new version was uploaded, 1.43.2. It now contains the framework for trading with R machine learning functions.

I downloaded v1.43.2 but get the following error when I try to run the application:

'The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000020c). Click OK to close the application.'

I tried downloading a second time and got the same result.

Anyone else can confirm this?