Is there a reason why Z9 uses leverage = 2 instead of e.g. = 10 ? Is the amount of leverage predetermined by broker / etf or is it really a variable one can set?

@Hredot I guess that leverage=10 in a long-term strategy would be more-or-less suicidal There is a very interesting paper ("Leverage for the long run", https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2741701) that talks about that, 1.5x or 2x is ok, but even using 3x seems very dangerous in drawdowns.

(Anyway, indeed would be interesting to be able to set the leverage in Z9, the only Z strategy that I'm confident to run with real money..)

IB has leverage 4 but I know no broker with leverage 10 for etfs

Interesting! Actually, the leverage flag is set in AssetsZ9.csv, so one can at least back-test Z9 with any amount of leveraging. I tried x6 and the shape of the equity curve just got multiplied (got congruently higher), which suggests that higher leverage is fine with it!

With IB, does one set the AssetsZ9.csv flag to 4 and that automatically performs all trades leveraged 4 times, or does one have to set this property somehow on the broker platform?

In the test log, all strategies with daily bars submit all trades at midnight 00:00:00. Is it possible to somehow shift this time to e.g. 10am in Zorro?

hos to i install the beta version as i'm keen to fix the step wise issue ?

do Simply copy beta files into existing zero folders ?

@matty019:

I'm suspecting that it is futile to ask, since the devs and mods here only tend to help people who bought a Zorro S license.

Sensible people however only invest in something that actually works in their hands. So helping them figure out their issues would directly increase Zorro S sales as a result. Alas, the mods and devs do not seem to realize that. Or they just don't care about selling more Zorro S licenses, since Zorro is sponsored anyways.

I always copy the beta version in a new folder, not the existing Zorro folder, so I have still the old version if the beta version does not work.

Hi
Is there no command help in the Notepad script editor?
If not, is it possible to continue using SED with Zorro1.66?

Take a look at http://zorro-project.com/manual/en/npp.htm concerning notepad++. SED works on if I copied SED.exe, cKeywords.db, dagocmd.db, Keywords.db from a previous version to the root directory of Zorro and changed zorro.ini accordingly. The downside of course: the keyword database won't be adjusted to new commands and represents only the status of the version were copied from.