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Are there speed issues when using a foreign broker?

I am a US trader and I want to use a foreign broker but I am concerned about latency issues. Is there a delay in quote data, open/close times if the brokerage is in a foreign country

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OrderSend not executing at the correct time

I want to execute an OrderSend at exactly 12:30 and 00 seconds, but when I look in the journal, it says the trade was bought at 12:30:05. Why is there a delay? How can I execute a trade much quicker than a 5 second delay? extern string time = "2013.10.03 12:30:00" ; //in ea int start() { if (

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What is the padlock in Metaeditor?

I'm trying to delete an EA in my experts folder so I can backtest it, but when I delete it and replace it with a revised version, MetaTrader somehow has a copy of the old version of my EA, as if it's storing it in memory? Also, I was wondering what this lockpad on the icon is for. Would this be

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How do websites obtain the time of fundamental announcements?

I am wondering how and where many forex sites like forexfactory.com get the date/times of news releases . I'm assuming it's all automated, and the forex calender isn't updated manually. Is it also possible to retrieve the time and news releases to my own server

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Moving average only displays 4 decimal places with a fractional broker

I am using the iMA() function , but the values of the data obtaining by the function only produce a price up to 4 decimal places when it should be displaying pipettes (fractions of a pip). For example, if aud/usd is at 0.91236, iMA only uses 0.9124. I want the EA to display all 5 digits