Old tick problem solved

 

Hello,

Sometimes my terminal suffers from old tick problem.  So far I haven't found any solutions to this other than restarting the terminal.  Problem is if I leave my computer alone for several hours and old tick happens I won't notice it until I return to it.  So I've written a console application to monitor a log file created by an EA and restart the terminal if the log file becomes too old (which indicates old tick occured).

If you'd like to use it here is a download link.

Source code available at GitHub.

GitHub - VikMorroHun/TaskKillChecker: Counteract old tick problem in MetaTrader 5.
GitHub - VikMorroHun/TaskKillChecker: Counteract old tick problem in MetaTrader 5.
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Counteract old tick problem in MetaTrader 5. TaskKillChecker is a console application designed to counteract the infamous "old tick" problem by monitoring a log file placed in the "Files" folder of the terminal. You have to add some kind of logging into your EA for TaskKillChecker to work. If no new data appears in the log file for a certain...