MT4 DDE feed problem

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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!

 

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 -

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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

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

Just in case anyone comes here searching for a fix when the DDE is broken, read below for my fix, hope it helps someone with similar problem.

Had a problem re-emerge in late 2025 with DDE from MT4 being broken with Excel, have spent ages trying to fix it with countless uninstalls and re-installs - finally discovered that it was the latest Microsoft Office365 Build that has broke DD - Version 2512 Build 19525.20000.

I rolled back to version 2510 Build 19328.20244 and all is working fine again.

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