Connection Status - page 2

[Bryan van]

Fernando Carreiro #:

1. Spread is the difference between the Ask and Bid price. It has nothing to do with the connection speed or even to do with MetaTrader. It is set by the broker and the liquidity and volatility of the Market and the underlying liquidity providers.
2. Slippage is dependant on many factors, including volatility and liquidity of the market, speed of execution by brokers, latency in the communications, efficiency of your EA, and CPU/RAM resources available for the MetaTrader terminal, as well as overhead of the operating system and hard-drive speeds.
   
3. "kb" is the number Kilobytes of data transferred. It has nothing to do with speed. Being more or less is not an indication of anything special. It grows with time, the more charts you open, and the more orders you process.
   

Thank you very much!