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With an 'ECN style' broker - what was the max slippage you experienced and what was the the average?

Anybody that has any experience with 'ECN style' brokers (with a LIVE account ), I'd appreciate if you can share: 1. What was the max slippage you experienced for a market order? (slippage -> I mean the difference in points between requested price and the actual opening price). 2. Roughly, what is

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Security issues when using a VPS to trade?

I'm having internet problems at my current location and have been thinking about getting a VPS to trade. My main concern is security - not from external sources like hackers, etc., but from the stuff at which ever hosting company I get the VPS at. I've been trying to research the subject, but can't

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DataCenter connecting failed [6] error - how to solve this?

I've noticed that very rarely when internet connection falls for a few seconds/minutes, after it is back online MT4 DOES NOT reconnect properly. What happens is that the top triangle at the bottom right of MT4 comes back green, but the bottom one remains red. In the journal tab (log) the following

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Solution to some email related issues recently posted on the forum (SMTP account problems, removing "Expert Adviser", HTML formatted emails)

Following some recent email related posts here is a method I found that enables: Sending emails without a SMTP account. Removing "Expert Adviser" from the 'From' field. Sending HTML formatted emails. The method uses a freeware SMTP relay client I have been using for a few months: mini-Relay v0.9.77d

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OrderSelect() and ticket behavior - ascending/descending?

A few questions regarding ticket numbering and OrderSelect() behavior: 1. Is it guaranteed that orders opened have ascending ticket numbers? So for example - if order x was opened AFTER order y, is it guaranteed that ticket x > ticket y? 2. Regarding 1 – is this a broker specific behavior? Can this

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Memory leak in Tester with MT4 build 224?

I'm running optimizations and the Tester crashes after about an hour. After investigation I've noticed the log file full of memory allocation errors.... I tried running optimization again, this time I left the task manager (windows xp sp3) open on the performance tab. The PF graph is a nice linear

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DataCenter connecting failed [6], unknown command C6?

I've been using the ALPARI UK Demo for a few months now and this is the first time I came across this error. My journal has the following lines (they repeat a few times): DataCenter connecting failed [6] unknown command C6 login The expert that was running during this stopped working, but did not

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MQL4 forum avatar images broken?

Is it just me, or do most avatar images show up as 'broken image links'? I am using Chrome, but it seems to happen in IE as well here

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MT4 server IP address?

I know SRV files in the config folder are supposed to hold a broker's server details. Can I extract the server's IP address from that? What I'd like to do is ping the IP for latency checks . Problem is some of the brokers I'm checking out now don't have this info on their website and I'm getting

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Cannot see experts/scripts in Navigator - build 249

I just re-installed and the example experts and scripts (that are in sub-folders) are not accessible anymore from the Navigator (in Terminal)