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".
