In a historical test using the JForex API, calling the setMarginCutLevel method only sets a new value in the ITesterClient object, not in the strategy object where it's actually used.

The following is the relevant code I used to test.
In the tester class:

final ITesterClient client = TesterFactory.getDefaultInstance();

client.setLeverage(leverage);
client.setMarginCutLevel(50);
LOGGER.info("In ITesterClient: Leverage = " + client.getLeverage() + ", MarginCutLevel = " + client.getMarginCutLevel());

In the straetgy class:

console.getOut().println("In IStrategy: Leverage = " + context.getAccount().getLeverage() + ", MarginCutLevel = " + context.getAccount().getMarginCutLevel());

Here is the output:

2011-02-16 22:40:04.865 INFO  TestMarginCallMain - In ITesterClient: Leverage = 300, MarginCutLevel = 50
2011-02-16 22:40:04.874 INFO  TestMarginCallMain - 1 strategies started.
In IStrategy: Leverage = 300.0, MarginCutLevel = 200

You can see above that setLeverage is working fine, but the MarginCutLevel in the strategy object should be 50 but remains at the default value of 200. This is incorrect so please fix this. Thank you.

I'd like to add that even though the default value of margin cut level is 200, From my tests I believe that it is actually executing margin cut at 100, i.e. 100% of maximum allowed leverage. You should also check this and fix it.

Hi,
The getMarginCutLevel() will be fixed in the next release