MT4 dde feed problem

[Dima]

hi

my mt4 is set to send the data via dde to excel. excel workbooks i recalculated every 5 seconds. now for soem strange reason dde stops aftre each horu and mt4 stops to update the prices - I am on a demo account  is this a known bug??? after i restart mt4 and excel all starts to work fine and the stops AGAIN!

[Sergey Golubev]

If it is the broker's issue (you are on demo account with some broker, right?) so change the broker (there are a lot of the brokers proposing the demo accounts).

Please find the general information about -

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies

Usefull links/threads/tools

Sergey Golubev, 2011.11.23 07:17

Excel

Systems and tools

1. Working with Excel (tools, indicators, conversion ...) - the thread 
2. Forex data converters thread 
3. MULTI FIBO CALCULATOR with DDE off course - the thread 
4. FX risk calculator with DDE - the thread 
5. Excel Spreadsheet to simulate cost averaging strategies objectively - the thread 

Articles

1. MQL5 Cookbook: Writing the History of Deals to a File and Creating Balance Charts for Each Symbol in Excel - the article
2. How to Prepare MetaTrader 5 Quotes for Other Applications - the article

CodeBase

1. Export Indicator's Values - MT5 tool 
2. Export Calculated Prices & Indicator Buffers - script for MetaTrader 5
3. Export Summary Grouped by Symbols - script for MetaTrader 5
4. Export Summary Grouped by Trading Days - script for MetaTrader 5
5. VR Orders History MT5 Lite - script for MetaTrader 5
6. DDE - Server - MT5 tool
7. History Dump CSV with heat map for Excel analysis - MT4 tool 
8. MS Excel: Data Exchange and Management - MT4 tool 
9. Export to Excel in Real Time - MT4 tool 
10. MetaCOT 2 CFTC ToolBox (Set of Indicators) MT4 - COT in Excel 
11. Export Trades to excel - MT4 script 
12. Converting hst-files into csv files - MT4 tool

[Dima]

This is a common issue? have you met teh same problem? has anyone here? DOES DDE LINK STOP ON ITS OWN SOMETIMES?