I'm new to MT4, so forgive my ignorance. I've been playing with a demo account with FXCM, and notice that execution times are EXTREMELY slow compared to execution times I experience with a live account on my normal trading platform. I thought this was really odd since this is a demo account. Specifically, I've been playing with scripts that close current orders on a chart, and a script that closes all open orders in the account. Whenever I drag one of these (or any other) on to the chart, it can take up to 10 seconds to execute. Is this normal?
- buy script with spread targeting
- not enough money to trade my demo account
- Close all trades and take profit
mpr:
I'm new to MT4, so forgive my ignorance. I've been playing with a demo account with FXCM, and notice that execution times are EXTREMELY slow compared to execution times I experience with a live account on my normal trading platform. I thought this was really odd since this is a demo account. Specifically, I've been playing with scripts that close current orders on a chart, and a script that closes all open orders in the account. Whenever I drag one of these (or any other) on to the chart, it can take up to 10 seconds to execute. Is this normal?
How many open orders do you have ? are there any delays built into the script ? what did your Broker say when you asked them about slow execution ?
I'm new to MT4, so forgive my ignorance. I've been playing with a demo account with FXCM, and notice that execution times are EXTREMELY slow compared to execution times I experience with a live account on my normal trading platform. I thought this was really odd since this is a demo account. Specifically, I've been playing with scripts that close current orders on a chart, and a script that closes all open orders in the account. Whenever I drag one of these (or any other) on to the chart, it can take up to 10 seconds to execute. Is this normal?
How many open orders do you have ? I've played around with up to four orders opened at once with each on a different pair.
are there any delays built into the script ? Script was provided by the broker, and I have no visibility into it.
what did your Broker say when you asked them about slow execution ? haven't asked.
Thanks for the response. It just seemed odd that I could close the orders manually faster than the script could - but there will be other times when I drag the script on to the chart and it starts working immediately.

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