~~~ What is RangerZ? ~~~

Ranger™  is not a mere trading strategy, but a highly configurable strategy-building framework. It was created in 2018 by Pardo & Company, and became an immediate success. Its developer, Robert Pardo, is widely known as a pioneer of automated trading and the inventor of Walk-Forward Analysis, a methodology that has become the gold standard of optimizing trading strategies.

Over the course of his career, Pardo developed long-term profitable trading systems for major institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Daiwa, and DUNN Capital. Ranger builds on that experience and can be seen as the final successor to those systems. It is the culmination of Pardo’s decades of research, testing, and practical trading expertise.

The name 'Ranger' is derived from Donchian's classic 'range breakout' approach. Ranger starts with this and goes far beyond it with proprietary trend filters, volatility filters, entry filters, different order types, and a versatile set of exit and position-management rules. In this way, combining its different entry methods, indicators and filters in various ways, Ranger can build thousands of different types of uncorrelated trading strategies with the "big categories" being no filtration, counter trend, trend neutral and with trend. Pardo has used Ranger to create strategies in futures, crypto and stocks on intraday and daily time frames.

 RangerZ is the Ranger implementation in the C programming language, developed by oP group Germany based on Pardo's  original Ranger code. While the original Ranger ran on the TradeStation™ platform, RangerZ runs on the Zorro platform. It combines the best of both worlds: the proven long-term performance of Ranger and the speed and analysis functions of Zorro. Trading logic, strategy components, proprietary indicators, and variables are  identical in both versions. But a lot else is different:

- RangerZ was written in C. Backtests and optimizations run multiple times faster.
- RangerZ trades simultaneously with a portfolio of strategies, markets, and time frames.
- RangerZ supports all brokers, exchanges, and price sources for which an API plugin is available.
- RangerZ includes a comprehensive evaluation and analysis system with improved metrics.
- RangerZ comes with a basic portfolio of 10 top strategies, and can be immediately traded.

        RangerZ basic portfolio equity curve, trading DJI, S&P500, DAX, Gold, and Bitcoin with a 100:1 CFD account and $800 capital.

Ranger strategy portfolios have been traded since 2018, and have been consistently profitable. For details and past performance, please see Robert Pardo's Ranger page and the Ranger Alpha page.

RangerZ comes with an example asset list and a basic strategy portfolio for indexes, commodities, and bitcoin. Any asset can be simultaneously traded on 60 minutes, 4 hours, and daily time frames. Asset lists with other markets can be freely added by the user.

Please note: RangerZ is maintained by oP group Germany. It  includes technical support and lifetime updates with system improvements, new asset lists, and new strategy portfolios. It does not include technical support, improvements, or consulting sessions by Robert Pardo. It does also not include Robert Pardo's RangerMaker™ software with the strategy evaluation method formerly named "The Pardo Proprietary Development Process" and now named "Excalibur Development Process", which was the process that created the strategies Pardo & Company offer. Instead it includes Zorro's Evaluation Shell. The Evaluation Shell has been independently developed by oP group Germany for succeeding RangerMaker™, and is in no way endorsed, reviewed, or approved by Robert Pardo or Pardo & Company.

Zorro Disclaimer - The Zorro software and the Evaluation Shell are copyrighted by oP group Germany GmbH. We take great pains to make certain that the software is free of errors, malware, spyware, and adware. However it is distributed "AS IS" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. For verifying file integrity, check the hash (f.i. CertUtil -hashfile C:\path\to\file SHA256). We grant permission for personal use of the Zorro software without fee. Parts or derivative works based on the software require our express permission for being distributed or included in trading software, educational material, or other products, This website provides general information only and may be subject to change at any time without notice. We are no financial advisor and cannot be held responsible for any trading losses or other damages incurred as a result of using the software or using any information gathered through this website.

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