Need help with the MT5 VPS please
MQL5 VPS is your "second Metatrader in cloud".
Synchronization/migration is the send everything (open charts with EAs attached or the signal subscription) to your "second Metatrader in cloud".
All the information (about how it works, works or not, error or not and so on) is written on VPS logs (VPS journal).
As this VPS is per trading account so you can see open trades on your first home Metatrader for example.
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Sergey Golubev, 2020.07.27 19:13
MQL5 VPS is having pros and cons.
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- to make in shorter: post #19
- quick questions on MQL5 VPS (Syncing and Activations) https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/337526
- all the information (I hope it is all information) which I collected in one post: #872
When you use MQL5 VPS you do not need to keep your computer on.
You must synchronize properly your EAs and/or indicators in order to work on the virtual server.
Your MQL5 VPS's journal log will begin recording after your first synchronization.
In order to synchronize an Expert Advisor with your MQL5 VPS server, you need to attach your EA on a chart, click the Auto Trading button and then right click on your VPS server >> Synchronize experts, indicators.
After the synchronization you check the VPS (right click) >> Journals, that you are getting the following message: 1 (or whatever) chart, 1 (or whatever) EA, 0 (or whatever) custom indicators, signal disabled.
After the synchronization with your MQL5 VPS you DO NOT keep the Auto Trading button ON.
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SYNCHRONIZATION OF SIGNAL SUBSCRIPTION
1. When you are subscribed to a signal, you should check frequently that your signal subscription is active and you are copying the trades perfectly. Please go to your MT4 Navigator window and right click on the VPS number, under your account. Click on the >> Journals, option.
2. On the Journals log file that opens, you should locate a: signal enabled, message along with details of your signal subscription, like the copying ratio etc.
3. If you see a: signal disabled, message then something is wrong, you should go over your MT4 or MT5 >> Tools >> Options >> Signals, tab settings again and then re-synchronize with your MQL5 VPS.
4. You should check for this: signal enabled, message regularly (once a day I would say), in order to ensure that you are copying the signal perfectly.
WARNING: After you finished with the synchronization of the signal subscription to the MQL5 VPS, you don’t need to tick the: Enable realtime signal subscription, option again in your local computer’s MT4/5 platform, because that way you will copy the signal twice and this is extremely dangerous !!!
When you use MQL5 VPS you do not need to keep your computer on.
You must synchronize properly your EAs and/or indicators in order to work on the virtual server.
Your MQL5 VPS's journal log will begin recording after your first synchronization.
In order to synchronize an Expert Advisor with your MQL5 VPS server, you need to attach your EA on a chart, click the Auto Trading button and then right click on your VPS server >> Synchronize experts, indicators.
After the synchronization you check the VPS (right click) >> Journals, that you are getting the following message: 1 (or whatever) chart, 1 (or whatever) EA, 0 (or whatever) custom indicators, signal disabled.
After the synchronization with your MQL5 VPS you DO NOT keep the Auto Trading button ON
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Thanks very much for the information, makes it a lot clearer,
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Hi all.
I have just started the 24 hr trial of the VPS. With a previous VPS I tried I had to login to the server via a remote desk client on my laptop to be able to see the charts etc on the VPS server.
With MT5 this doesn't seem to be the case. I 'think' that having registered and migrated my charts, signals etc, and selecting the server from the navigator window that I am now connected to the server in NY, is that correct? if it is, then does it mean that what I am looking at on my laptop is duplicated on the server, so that I can place trades, modify existing orders, place trailing stops etc, then if I want can turn the laptop off, and the settings and the trade are still running on the VPS?
OR am I missing something obvious?
TIA
Douglas