If a .jfx file is present, then I'd like a standalone API
feature to launch a Remote Strategy Run at Dukascopy's
Remote servers, and to provide startup parameters for each
run instance. This would be within the security context of
an account sign in, of course, and would work for
both Demo and Live accounts.

Thanks,
HyperScalper

I guess it should also be able to stop Remote Strategies,
so the question would be what parameters would be
needed to enumerate running Remote Strategies, and
to identify the correct Strategy to stop.

HyperScalper

Please let me know when Remote Launch from standalone API
will be available.

In the meantime, is there any way to implement the feature
in the interim ?

HyperScalper

We are working on it right now.

I am ready to deploy my Remote Strategies Live, and have a few design questions.

My current plan is simply to "clone" the BOT instance as follows:

Firstly, compile BOT.java -> BOT.jfx (associated with BOT.xml for its configuration).

Then "clone" BOT.jfx through copy/rename to BOT2.jfx, BOT3.jfx, etc.

Also, BOT.xml "cloned" through copy/rename to BOT2.xml, BOT3.xml, etc.

Each BOTx is then launched using Remote Run and its specific params are configured
manually at initial launch, but I will be able to change those parameters at runtime
through a "remote console" facility which I have custom programmed.

At runtime, the Console is able to communicate with all of the running BOTs. Initially,
no BOT will trade until it has been enabled by my custom Remote Console, after
is has been started, for safety.

This Console uses the IEngine.broadcast(topic, message) mechanism through a custom CommsManager
facility, so that I am able to control each individual BOT's runtime parameters as it continues
to run, and receive information from any/all of the BOTs to the Console. (The CommsManager
automatically "paces" the IEngine.broadcast messages to conform with minimum delays.)

I WILL ALSO BE USING THE API FOR REMOTE RUN WHEN IT IS READY.

But somehow I have the feeling that "copy cloning" the BOT.jfx may not be the right
approach. So far, I don't know of any way to uniquely identify BOTx.jfx instances,
or to have a unique BOTx.xml configuration file. Is there another/better way ?

I'd like some advice whether this approach is OK, and also, please...

WHAT WILL THE REMOTE LAUNCH API SUPPORT? I assume I will need to use
the Standalone API to use this facility when it's available.

Thanks for any information or tips,
HyperScalper

It is implemented in a next API version.

https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#JForex_S ... strategies

Thank you so much, but methods to discover or iterate through running
Strategies, and to manage them, is also needed. Please look into functionality
more than simply the IClient.startRemoteStrategy and please ensure that
we can both start and IClient.stopRemoteStrategy(...) as a minimum. That
would require the ability to discover running instances, I think.

The JForex platform has great difficulty dealing with situations in which
the Strategy Remote launch times out or fails. It then becomes very
confusing as to what is actually running, and whether the initialization
of Parameters is correct for each instance, as I have reported elsewhere.
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Thank you very very much for this,
HyperScalper

The started strategies will be available with the current functionality IClient.getStartedStrategies, which will include the local and remote strategies started by the current process. Likewise one will be able to stop a remote strategy by using the IClient.stopStrategy method. In order to manage remote strategies started from other processes, one will need to use the platform.

Thank you. Please in a future release allow for management of all Remote Strategies for the Account,
and not just those launched from the standalone API client process. In other words, the same
functionality that the JForex platform implements with respect to Remote Run.

Again, thanks for providing Remote Management functions in the API 2.9.4

HyperScalper

I'm waiting to upgrade until this is available in the API.
What version, and when is it likely to release?

HyperScalper