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New article How to Prepare a Trading Account for Migration to Virtual Hosting has been published: MetaTrader client terminal is perfect for automating trading strategies. It has all tools necessary for trading robot developers powerful C++ based MQL4/MQL5 programming language, convenient MetaEditor development environment and multi-threaded strategy tester that supports distributed computing in MQL5 Cloud Network. In this article, you will find out how to move your client terminal to the virtual environment with all custom elements. How to Provide the Reliable Round-the-Clock Operation of the Terminal? A trader may need a terminal running 24 hours a day in the following three cases: a trader has a trading robot developed by his or her efforts or ordered from programmers ; a trader has an Expert Advisor purchased in the Market ; a trader has subscribed to a Signal . All these cases require constant connection to a trade server and uninterrupted power supply. Using a home PC is not always possible and convenient. Until recently, the most popular solution has been renting allocated computing capacities as VDS or VPS from specialized companies. MetaTrader platform offers much more convenient and quick solution you can rent a virtual server for your trading account right from the client terminal. What Is a Virtual Terminal Virtual terminal is a special lite version of MetaTrader client terminal which has only the components critical for the round-the-clock operation not requiring trader's visual control. This allows the virtual terminal to consume the minimum PC resources while autotrading feature remains intact. We have obtained experience in making such terminals since arranging Automated Trading Championship . During the competition, dozens of lite versions of MetaTrader worked simultaneously on a single rented server located on the hosting company's site. Each MetaTrader lite platform contained a trading robot of one of the participants with all necessary indicators. The current MetaTrader virtual terminal has been developed specifically for working in Virtual Hosting Cloud network offering rental services. Any trader may rent a ready-made virtual server with already arranged trading environment in a few mouse clicks right from the client terminal. Author: MetaQuotes Software Corp.

[Deleted] 2014.10.30 02:47 #61

komposter:

There will be no guidelines, because then there will be claims like "I used as much as you allowed in this message".

Do you have a specific task (is the EA really heavy), or are you just curious?

It will not work to make the hosting a calculating machine for digging through a large amount of data, but for any other task the resources will be enough.

Just wondering. I'm more than enough processor 500 MHz, operativ 100 mb, on the disc -100 mb. You can't digest volumes here - there is no point in doing it because there is no feedback to pull out the results of "digestion".

And even the tick history cannot be collected - the files are not synchronised.

Discussion on the implementation Selling the Philosopher's Stone The market is a

[Deleted] 2014.10.30 02:48 #62

I still have some unanswered questions -

1. Can the "light" copy create files on its hosting and work with them?

1.2 Is FILE_COMMON disabled, or is it possible to "make friends" with all hosting terminals through it?

2. What is the backup node and where does it sit? (i.e. EA is loaded simultaneously on the hosting server and on a special methaquot server, and if the hosting server goes down, a copy of EA is launched from the methaquot server, or is it a backup function from the hosting server itself to ensure reliable uninterrupted operation?)

Questions about choosing a tariff.

3. If the checkbox "automatically renew the subscription when there are funds and terminal activity" is enabled, does it mean that if there was a subscription for a year, it will automatically renew for a year, or the renewal will be for a month, or for as long as there is enough money on the account?

Auto-renewal cannot be switched on/off at any time? There is no cashback. You have to wait for the paid period to expire? This is not very convenient.

Small suggestions -

1. The first thing that caught my eye -

10 USD rent for 1 month, payment from MQL5.community account

28 USD rent for 3 months, 7% discount, best choice!

etc.

"Payment from MQL5.community account" should be moved somewhere separately above the list of tariffs. Or "payment from MQL5.community account" refers only to the monthly tariff? It looks ugly.

2 After 24 hours of paid subscription expires, the "cancel hosting" button simply MUST become inactive (provided that automatic subscription renewal can be enabled/disabled at any time).

And so, everything works "on a hurrah" so far. I haven't found any faults. I will try a paid subscription soon. First - for a month.

Automatic renewal questions Register a Server - Discussion of article "Payments

Renat Fatkhullin 2014.10.30 08:16 #63

1. All functionality is available

2. the backup server is ours, not yet implemented

3. Renewal is valid for the selected tariff

4. The cancellation button cannot be disabled, as there are different cases and you will have to cancel.

How do i cancel Errors, bugs, questions Weekend evening

Heiner Diephaus 2014.10.30 21:05 #64

Thanks for the link, now after a few days the server stops. I rent it for 3 month and I cant start them. The synchronise was accepted but the sever is stopped.

Where can I get the service for problems?

Hidden VPS Discussion of article "Why Registered a Virtual Server

Alain Verleyen 2014.10.31 02:11 #65

vivatrader:

Thanks for the link, now after a few days the server stops. I rent it for 3 month and I cant start them. The synchronise was accepted but the sever is stopped.

Where can I get the service for problems?

Write to ServiceDesk.

[Deleted] 2014.10.31 03:41 #66

I'm angry.

Error on hosting

2014.10.31 02:48:38.782 Access violation read to 0x1372C6E0 in 'C:\MetaTraderHosting\instances\65A60EB1E7C0609B3AA515F3C78379CB\MQL4\Experts\HT.ex4'.

The error is critical - the Expert Advisor crashed after some time of work

What does it mean?

All symbols, indicators and charts are loaded.

On the computer the Expert Advisor works without errors, dlls are forbidden.

I can't understand this error. Probably some problem with iTime(). ...

Access violation read - muti-use VPS Issue with running EX4

[Deleted] 2014.10.31 06:59 #67

Changed the logic using iTime() to TimeCurrent() - the hosting terminal no longer generates errors.

Renat Fatkhullin 2014.10.31 09:45 #68

Please send the old version of the file to servicedesk. We will look into it.

[Deleted] 2014.10.31 11:34 #69

The old one was also corrupted. I will try to restore it, to extract all unnecessary things as much as possible, to leave only the Expert Advisor with minimal code, which the hosting terminal "swears" at, but the "home" terminal accepts it without errors. - then I will post it here in the comments.

Virtual Hosting - Expert Errors, bugs, questions MT5 : ticks data

[Deleted] 2014.11.02 05:33 #70

forex is closed today. Checked on VTS

after a while (M1, but not sure) the EA on hosting crashes with an error

2014.11.02 04:33:08.049 Access violation read to 0x1542D484 in 'C:\MetaTraderHosting\instances\484905935FFF9FB49F8A740F170D17DC\MQL4\Experts\Experts.ex4'.

this code works without errors on the computer.

extern int sleep =350;
int OnInit()
  {
   EventSetMillisecondTimer(sleep);
   return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
  }
void OnDeinit(const int reason)
  {
 EventKillTimer();
}
void OnTimer()
{
static datetime ttt=0;
if(iTime(NULL,PERIOD_M1,0)!=ttt){ttt=iTime(NULL,PERIOD_M1,0);
}
}

MT4 Strategy Tester Access Any rookie question, so Access violation read -

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