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Z8 Questions #462022
09/04/16 10:10
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Hi altogether, i am testing the Z8 system after having read about it in Financial Hacker about it. With the second month i have two questions und would be happy to receive answers from the community:
1. After running the system on the first trading day of the month, a box opens with the new dispositions. If i don't see last months positions, does this mean they remain open until a new message occurs?
2. While running the system there is a line in the protocol which says "Error 062: Can't open Z8.par (rt:2)" What does this mean? I can't find this file in the system.

Best, Tele

Re: Z8 Questions [Re: Telegucker] #462048
09/05/16 16:54
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You must see the current open positions, as well as the new positions on the box. The occasional "Z8.par" message is a leftover from a test and can be ignored.

Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: Telegucker] #462106
09/09/16 21:22
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Is there a way to use the Z8 system without having an IB account? The system relies on daily bar data from the yahoo finance website. Isn't this historical data all it needs to determine the contract size of the selected assets, so one would be able to place an order with a preferred broker and without the need for a data subscription? That would be helpful and reduce the threshold for using this risk conservative and hence attractive system.

Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: hatten] #462111
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I noticed that my previous message in this thread has been partially addressed elsewhere. There, jcl pointed out that it is possible to have a demo account with IB without having a real account. I can confirm that. I tested whether zorro would connect to the demo account and it does (do not forget to install the IB gateway and to change the TWS API settings under edit/global configuration/API settings by changing the socket port to 4002 and enabling ActiveX and Socket clients - the error messages in zorro point to these two possible problems). Unfortunately, markets are closed and I can't be sure if actually z8 would be able to spit out the contract size for each of the assets as I get two errors: <asset> unavailable at this time and !Requested market data is not subscribed. We will see on monday. I am mainly concerned about the second warning as with just a demo account a data subscription is of course not possible.

Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: hatten] #462167
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Unfortunately with just the demo account it seems not possible to get the Z8 system running.

Here are the tyical error messages:
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
Error 053: XLV unavailable at this time
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
Error 053: XLY unavailable at this time
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
Error 053: XRT unavailable at this time
NY time 12:45
No bars generated
Logout.. ok

Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: hatten] #462169
09/12/16 17:39
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Apparently ETFs are not available in the demo account. So you need indeed a real account. Alternatively, you could use the code from Financial Hacker that needs no broker connection at all.

Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: jcl] #462296
09/19/16 18:09
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Even with a real account Z8 reports the Error 053. Maybe the yahoo source page is not available?

Edit: Seems to work with 1.50.5, at least the bars were read.

Last edited by PadMalcom; 09/20/16 04:54.
Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: PadMalcom] #462304
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You can not trade and get no prices from IB when the market is closed. This is indicated with error 053. Yahoo is open all day, but the NY stock exchange is not.

Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: jcl] #462310
09/20/16 13:50
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But now (15:48 Germany, 09:48 NY) it is and I'm still getting error 053.

Error 053: XLB unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLF unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLI unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLK unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLP unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLU unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLV unavailable at this time
Error 053: XLY unavailable at this time
Error 053: XRT unavailable at this time
NY time 09:48
No bars generated
Logout.. ok

Re: Z8 Questions: need for IB account [Re: PadMalcom] #462330
09/21/16 14:40
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