how to view trades running on VPS ?

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Hi, I have purchased vps through MT4, but how do you view running trades using EA on vps ? 

This is all i see and details tab is not of much help. 

thanks in advance.

Tommy

 
tomgivens2015:

Hi, I have purchased vps through MT4, but how do you view running trades using EA on vps ? 

This is all i see and details tab is not of much help. 

thanks in advance.

Tommy

Click 'Journals' and you will see what's going on with your rented vps, also all open trades by your adviser shows up in your terminal tab 'Trade' and if you open up the corresponding symbol chart the adviser trades 

 
Thanks Ken. I am able to view Journals but don't know where to look for open trades. I can search by advisor, but only shows me status like when it was started..nothing about trades or chart symbols or where should i look or click to get that ?
 
tomgivens2015:
Thanks Ken. I am able to view Journals but don't know where to look for open trades. I can search by advisor, but only shows me status like when it was started..nothing about trades or chart symbols or where should i look or click to get that ?

The VPS is just that, "Virtual". So you can't see the trades as such, as you can on your PC. It's just a operating copy of your PC MT4/5 after you synchronise it. 

For piece of mind, I would run it on a demo account, you can always swap over later to a live account.

Then, set your EA to run - it will turn off Auto-trade on your terminal whenever you synch, so the VPS assumes control and places the orders.

You could, optionally, turn off your PC and come back to it later, hopefully there will be some trades placed which you can see on your PC copy of MT4. This will depend on your EAs trade strategy of course. If you "stop" the VPS, then trade control comes back to your PC MT4, but you'd need to set autotrade again....

Documentation on MQL5: Constants, Enumerations and Structures / Environment State / Account Properties
Documentation on MQL5: Constants, Enumerations and Structures / Environment State / Account Properties
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, then each symbol positions will be closed in the same order, in which they are opened, starting with the oldest one. In case of an attempt to close positions in a different order, the trader will receive an appropriate error. There are several types of accounts that can be opened on a trade server. The type of account on which an...
 
tomgivens2015:

Hi, I have purchased vps through MT4, but how do you view running trades using EA on vps ? 

This is all i see and details tab is not of much help. 

thanks in advance.

Tommy

MQL5 VPS for MT4/MT5 is per trading account.
So, you can open metatrader and login to your trading acount to see the trades.

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Sergey Golubev, 2018.11.24 18:01

VPS is the copy of your Metatrader in the cloud.
To make this copy of your Metatrader in cloud so you need to open chart (or charts) and attach your EA to the chart (or to the charts) to ready to trade.
After that - you make the migration: you are synchronizing your Metatrader with open charts with EA attached to the charts - with the copy of your Metatrader in the cloud.

Once you synchronized (once you sent everything to VPS) so you can close your pc (in you want): your EA will work on VPS (means: your EA will work on the copy of your Metatrader in cloud).

And all those actions (with possibe errors) are written in your VPS log files (you can check it inside your home Metatrader).

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To make it shorter:

  • Your MQL5 VPS = your "2nd Metatrader in cloud". I mean: there is the cloud (somewhere). And there is "your second Metatrader" there ... this "second Metatrader in cloud" is empty ... you will need to provide migration/synchronize.
  • Migration = sending your EAs/indicators/open charts from your home Metatrader to MQL5 VPS (to "your Metatrader in cloud").
  • You can synchronize the settings/open charts/EAs/settings of your EAs/changing the settings of your EA/opened charts - from your home Metatrader with MQL5 VPS (with "your Metatrader in cloud"). You can synchronize many time (as many as you want).
  • Only open chart(s) with attached EA(s) can be migrated (can be synchronized) from your home Metatrader to MQL5 VPS (to "your Metatrader in cloud").
  • Your EA(s) will work on MQL5 VPS (on "your 2nd Metatrader in cloud"), and you can close your home Metatrader, or use your home Metatrader with the other trading account, or any.
  • Autotrading is always On in MQL5 VPS ("your second Metatrader in cloud" is having autotrading to be always ON irrespective of the settings of your home Metatrader).
  • (limitation) Your EA will not work on MQL5 VPS (on "your 2nd Metatrader in cloud") if EA is using dll irrespective off -  you allowed dll or not in your home Metatrader (irrespective of the settings of your home Metatrader). It is necessary to see the code or to be a coder to know: your EA is using/calling dll or not).
  • (limitation) It must be 64-bit client terminal (MT5) to use virtual hosting - means: your home Metatrader 5 should be 64-bit.
    MT4 does not have this limitation (because MT4 is always on 32-bit).

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