EAs do not connect to any server. The terminal has connected to the server and requests data for all open charts. After the initial update, only changes (ticks) are sent.
There are no unnecessary data from the server. You are over thinking it.
EAs do not connect to any server. The terminal has connected to the server and requests data for all open charts. After the initial update, only changes (ticks) are sent.
There are no unnecessary data from the server. You are over thinking it.
Sorry William , I think I didnt Explained the Question in a better way
What I meant was :
The Ea is connecting to a remote Socket server , and the server Is sending some values which is necessary to open trade , these values are the result of calculation which the server is performing and then the client EA execute trades based on those values.
Now let say EA is attached to EURUSD , its receiving the values for all the pairs and then saving it into a text file in the Files directory , which means if the EA Is attached to other pairs , it is not necessary to connect to the socket server again , it can just read the previously received values
so if there EA from one chart is already connected to the socket server , then what will be the best approach to avoid EAs on other charts to not connect to the socket server ?
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I am seeking some advice from more experienced members of this community
Basically I am working on a Socket client EA which connects to a remote Socket server and get some calculated values from the server , after receiving those values I am saving these values into a text file and processing the values further. Server is sending the data for all currency pairs , so even if client is running only on one chart its still receiving the data for all pairs.
but the problem is let say user opens 24 charts and attaches the EA to all of the charts now EA will try and connect to the server from all charts , and also will try and save the data to the text file, which isn't really necessary since only one instance can connect and receive all the necessary information from the server
What will be the best approach to let the other instances of the EA know that one instance is already connected to the server and is retrieving the necessary data from the server ?
I am not looking for the code , just need some theoretical information.
Any and all help will be highly appreciated
thank you