Hi jcl & all,
First, thanks to jcl for all the help so far!
For the benefit of others who may come upon this thread, this issue has been escalated to FXCM's developers as a possible bug on their side. They have given no ETA for resolution.
At today's end, it will be 2 WEEKS without API=Zorro access to the account! Initially expecting a quick resolution I just occasionally monitored the open trades through TS, prepared to cancel them if they went too bad. So far they haven't, but of course anything could have happened at a time I wasn't looking. So, this wasn't really an ideal course of action.
jcl, how should a situation of API failure like this be handled? Would the recommended way be to set Stops in TS? At any particular value? In the case of the Z systems, we don't know what stops are in the strategy - only the catastrophic one. When the API began working again, would Zorro automatically update/remove any manually added Stops?
Thanks.