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Strategy test result is difference to Real Account

Hello Experts, What will be the reasons if an EA was running different in Real account and Strategy test? After running one week I noticed the filed positions in real account. By comparing once in Strategy tester , the result was different (understood the deal may be slightly different). I am

MT5 speed on PC

Hello Experts, If you are not using VPS to trade. What is your PC configuration? Is it enough if PC is still running Windows 7 (64 bit), internet speed is acceptable. Thanks

Is MT5 working if program is closed.

Hello Experts, Assume an EA loaded to a chart, Algo trading is on. And if the PC is shutdown (that means the program is not running), is auto trading still running? thanks

Print() function

Hello Experts, Any idea how many maximum characters allowed in Print()? I want to print something in Journal but it miss something. Thanks

Trade Class or Trade functions, what is the difference, which one is better

Hi Expert, MQL5 reference has a standard library and contain a trade class, one of them is ctrade. However, Under same MQL5 reference, there are trade functions also. I found both can perform trade operation, but when programming, what is the difference, and which one is better? Can share your