How can I know that EA working over VM

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Hello experts, Today I rented a VPS and remove all currencies pair except one which I would like to run EA. And after sync I can see that EA stopped doing Auto trading on my local machine.

But how do I know that it's actually working over Virtual machine and perform Buy/Sell? Please help me to understand. Thank you.

 

If it is about MQL5 VPS for MT4/MT5 so this VPS is connected to your trading account.
And this MQL5 VPS is "Metatrader in cloud" connected to your trading account.

You can monitor is by looking at MQL5 VPS journal (logs) in case of error or something, and to look at your trading account for trades.

This is the general information about MQL5 VPS:

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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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How to monitor:

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VPS testing and monitoring

Sergey Golubev, 2017.03.31 09:53

Yes, you can monitor it.

Just watch the following videos here, and the article here:  Working with the Virtual Terminal 

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how to check if vps is running - the thread

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Sergey Golubev:

If it is about MQL5 VPS for MT4/MT5 so this VPS is connected to your trading account.
And this MQL5 VPS is "Metatrader in cloud" connected to your trading account.

You can monitor is by looking at MQL5 VPS journal (logs) in case of error or something, and to look at your trading account for trades.

This is the general information about MQL5 VPS:

How to monitor:


Thanks for the reply. I'm using mql5 VPS for my mt4 and I would like to check trading details.

So if EA doing auto trading over VM then Am I able to see my trading history over mobile device or mt4 history?

So that's the way I can understand that its working. I saw journal and I couldn't found any errors. Thank you.

 
noob4x:

Thanks for the reply. I'm using mql5 VPS for my mt4 and I would like to check trading details.

So if EA doing auto trading over VM then Am I able to see my trading history over mobile device or mt4 history?

So that's the way I can understand that its working. I saw journal and I couldn't found any errors. Thank you.

Yes.

 
Sergey Golubev:

Yes.

And after migrate I can see that smiley face is gone from my local machine. So that means auto trading going to Enable over VM. Am I right Sir?

 
noob4x:

And after migrate I can see that smiley face is gone from my local machine. So that means auto trading going to Enable over VM. Am I right Sir?

Autotrading is always ON in MQL5 VPS (and dll is always prohibited for any EA).
Because of that the smiley face should be gone in your local machine (otherwise the trades will be doubled).
 
Sergey Golubev:
Autotrading is always ON in MQL5 VPS (and dll is always prohibited for any EA).
Because of that the smiley face should be gone in your local machine (otherwise the trades will be doubled).

Oh Ok. That's means EA/Auto both are active over VM and I can see trade results if that happened. I'm sorry to asked you too many question. Cause as new hard to get this thing. Hope you understand my concern :)

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