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I have found the answer. To ensure the EA opens stop not limit orders, make sure you select Ask pending buy and Bid for pending sell.

Slippage is a real issue. Not repeating here but a simple Google will explain there are three factors - the time taken for your home MT4/5 to process the EA instruction, the time taken for that instruction to travel to your broker's server, and the time taken for your broker's server to process the instruction.
Moving on to the test I am doing - another observation is that even for the major forex pairs I am seeing minor price differences across leading brokers. This can lead to surprisingly different outcomes with orders and trades opening / closing at different times and at different price points - the exact same EAs on the same VPS but with different brokers. I am hoping to find out over the next 7 trading days which brokers are opening in favour of them and which open equally either way i.e. not disadvantageous to the trader.

Yes. I think the issue was I hadn't ticked allow DLL imports.

Broker 5 is Go Markets. Based on their response to my data, I have decided to cease trading with them.

Trading results today:

We opened sixy five 0.01 lots trades for each broker using the same EA all on Liquidity Connect's VPS. Here are the gross and net profits for each:

Broker 1 2.89 / 2.89
Broker 2 2.08 / -1.32
Broker 3 1.87 / -2.21
Broker 4 -0.46 / -3.14
Broker 5 -2.68 / -2.68

I am not naming brokers just yet as giving the poor-performers a change to up their game. However, I stopped Pepperstone and withdrew my money as it was like a leaking money tap.