Does MT5 mobile have slowdown issues?
Hi,
some days ago I decided to try MT5 mobile in my Samsung M22 phone and I noticed it had some considerable slowdown issues, in particular when I open the screen to send a new order and that small chart with recent trades appears. It's pretty common for the entire app to slowdown to the point of completely stopping for a coulpe of seconds, in particular in high volatility moments.
I thought it could be my phone (even though M22 is supposed to be a more then enough decent phone to handle such basic graphs) or the 4G connection, so I didn't give too much attention and decided to try in a tablet.
Well, problem is, in the tablet the same problem occurs!
So my question is: is MT5 for mobile not so well developed that it shows these slowdowns for everyone or is trully a hardware limitation in my phone and tablet? Even though I suppose such basic graphs shouldn't be a problem for octa-core processors!
During high volatile moments, MT5 is receiving thousands of orders a second, the slowdown you are experiencing is it trying to update the
superdom, generating events and calculate the last executed price, it happens on the desktop version too, since metatrader has to update the
UI on each order and there's no easy way to parallelize this logic, it'll either freeze until it finishes or the chart will lag and not show the
correct last price.
A solution is to not trade during volatile moments, this issue affects other platforms as well.
During high volatile moments, MT5 is receiving thousands of orders a second, the slowdown you are experiencing is it trying to update the
superdom, generating events and calculate the last executed price, it happens on the desktop version too, since metatrader has to update the
UI on each order and there's no easy way to parallelize this logic, it'll either freeze until it finishes or the chart will lag and not show the
correct last price.
A solution is to not trade during volatile moments, this issue affects other platforms as well.
Sad :/ But comprehensible. The difference is that in my computer, the freezes are very rare while in mobile even a minor increase in volatility seems enough for it to lag :( I mean, it's like one lag moment for each candle at least ^^
Open the superdom (metatrader calls it depth of the market) and make it show the times & sales, the amount of orders that come during volatile movements
is absurd as it is a mix of people executing at the market and others' stop loss being hit.
It's pretty rare to have this issue on stocks, they are just too slow compared to futures.
Sad :/ But comprehensible. The difference is that in my computer, the freezes are very rare while in mobile even a minor increase in volatility seems enough for it to lag :( I mean, it's like one lag moment for each candle at least ^^
Your pc is faster so the threshold is a bit higher but even today's fastest CPU would lag during those volatile movements,
it's more of a programming issue, you have a sequence of events and you can't process them in parallel, at least not in
metatrader as it try to update the EAs/indicators on every tick and some of them even rely on events from the book.
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Your pc is faster so the threshold is a bit higher but even today's fastest CPU would lag during those volatile movements,
it's more of a programming issue, you have a sequence of events and you can't process them in parallel, at least not in
metatrader as it try to update the EAs/indicators on every tick and some of them even rely on events from the book.
Sad :/
Well thanks guys for the replies =)
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Hi,
some days ago I decided to try MT5 mobile in my Samsung M22 phone and I noticed it had some considerable slowdown issues, in particular when I open the screen to send a new order and that small chart with recent trades appears. It's pretty common for the entire app to slowdown to the point of completely stopping for a coulpe of seconds, in particular in high volatility moments.
I thought it could be my phone (even though M22 is supposed to be a more then enough decent phone to handle such basic graphs) or the 4G connection, so I didn't give too much attention and decided to try in a tablet.
Well, problem is, in the tablet the same problem occurs!
So my question is: is MT5 for mobile not so well developed that it shows these slowdowns for everyone or is trully a hardware limitation in my phone and tablet? Even though I suppose such basic graphs shouldn't be a problem for octa-core processors!