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I guess you can't have it all without a big price tag. I found some posts, an older one talking about vultr previously providing 3.4GHz cores, then down to 2.4Ghz and a newer 2018 post states 2.6GHz...

I don't know if you're using more than 1 CPU (1 core, VPS providers make it confusing) but this site talks about the issues with MT4 being an older 32 bit program and not being efficient on multiple cores. I also don't know how the back end of fxdreema works but it may be of use to you if you're using an MT4 compiler...

https://www.mt4copier.com/improve-mt4-trade-copier-speed/

Much better

Indeed, so it comes back to who can you trust, my main concern in this thread. Out of interest how come you don't use Linux?

I think what Miro is suggesting is possibly more suitable if you can trust them, that's some pretty amazing specs for the price from Contabo. As I say my experience is more down the tiny personal cheap VPS route. I agree that amazon isn't cheap when you climb the scales but I think it's fairly priced for a well known trustworthy company, especially if you can keep to the small options.

Wow that is really low, slower than a cheap old USB 2 memory stick I have. The numbers look so similar on the new VPS that to me it seems throttled, something can't be right.

You could give the free trial of AWS a try:
https://aws.amazon.com/free/
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

It only applies to the t2.micro which has 1GB ram but you could do some tests with it at no cost. For 2GB you need the t2.small instance. Even then it might not be right for you, watch for bandwidth allowance because I think you only get 15GB a month included, anything more you're billed for. There's amazon lightsail as well which I believe is a simplified version of EC2 but again, it's getting confusing so I understand you avoiding them.

I'm sure there are many reputable providers but while I have used others I don't know any real details about them. For example, I've used vultr.com/pricing but I know nothing about them as a company so I can't blindly recommend them based off 1 experience. They do use SSD's though and the prices aren't bad. There's also digitalocean.com/pricing who use SSD's as well but now I'm just listing providers without any knowledge if they're reliable and trustworthy.

I agree amazon doesn't make it easy to understand, there are so many choices with non-descriptive names. I'm only familiar with basic private VPS's and have no idea what you require to host a website unfortunately. (outside of the simple online creators)

I think customer support would be the best point of contact, or perhaps do some testing with services that don't require a contract until you find one that works comfortably and at a good price. That said, maybe InterServer will improve and you can stick with them. Good to have choices though.

Yes it can be difficult finding trustworthy providers but I think amazon's service, AWS, is quite fairly priced and a company of that size shouldn't be involved in unscrupulous activities. At least if they were there should be enough users to call them out. I also think security and privacy are vital for a VPS, something I'm always unsure of with smaller providers.

Single Candle Template

Interesting, so each trade must have the magic number attached to the order number somehow but we can't see this. Useful to know.

My assumption was that if you ran the same EA on 2 charts with different magic numbers, but used the "no trade" exists block, then the EA would check your account and see there was a trade already in existence despite it being produced by the EA with a different magic number because the account is a singular entity. I may be wrong on this.

If I'm right then you could get round this by having each EA keep track of what's going on with the chart rather than the account. When the "buy now" block is executed it could add 1 to a variable so you know a trade exists, subtract 1 when closed. More complicated with SL and TP because a block isn't passed when these occur, perhaps look at current objects on the chart...

This is probably just the difference between a demo and live account and nothing to do with the EA. You don't say how your EA works, with regard to time frames but if it's trying to operate on tick data and scalping then I'm not surprised there's a big difference. With a demo there's no real money involved, orders can be executed whenever required and at any lot size. With a real account your order has to be filled with another party. If you wish to buy, someone else needs to sell. Slippage becomes a significant factor. Could be other reasons as well but without more details I can only speculate.

Sorry I don't, I gave up with MT5 because I had strange issues with it. Shame because it is much faster back testing with multi thread support but pointless if the results are unreliable.

First make sure you have created your project in fxdreema as an MT5 project and not MT4. Project, new project, select MT5.

If you didn't do this then there is a converter. https://fxdreema.com/converter

Open metatrader and click file, open data folder.

For MT4 open the folder MQL4, Experts
For MT5 open the folder MQL5, Experts, advisors

This is where you save your files.

If you save a new expert advisor while metatrader is open you either need to refresh the list in the program or restart metatrader.

To view the code, right click the expert advisor in metatrader and click modify.

@josecortesllobat

They don't make it as easy to download history in MT5 as it is in MT4.

Press Ctrl+u
Click on bars or ticks at the top (depending on the accuracy you require)
Select currency
Enter the date range
Click request

It may say that the results are limited, if so also check, "Tools", "Options" and increase the max bars in chart number. If you make this number too large with many charts you may find your computer slows down.

It may be something I just posted about in another thread, turn off adblocker.

Just wanted to share a simple fix for a problem I had.

If you use an adblocker you may need to disable it for fxdreema as the website now loads another tab to download the project.

Also if you are able to download the .mq4 but the file is broken when you go to test it in Metatrader 4 try downloading the .ex4 file instead. If you've made a mistake somewhere in your project an error message will show helping you to find the problem. This error message doesn't show when you download the .mq4

Same issue here, it does still seem to work if you give it time but it's very slow and sometimes won't load at all. The admin is usually pretty quick to fix issues (<24 hours) but due to different time zones they might not yet be aware of the problem.

All fixed now, many thanks

same, judging by other forum posts it's been about 24 hours so far.

When using the formula block I can right click and add a constant or variable to be added or multiplied etc but when right clicking on the 'result' parameter the variable/constant window does not appear. This works for the online version but not desktop. Build 100

I have managed to make it partially function by typing in a variable name manually that isn't in use but then this doesn't work with other blocks as it doesn't exist according to them.