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Thank you for your input Octopus! Wise words!

Nouveau message de Mark Reid reçu ce matin par mail car je suis inscrit à la newsletter du site Broker Arbitrage.
Cela concerne une nouvelle mise à jour de l'EA.

Je cite :

'I've got a special update for you for Broker Arbitrage today.
A new version 1.6. If you are receiving this e-mail and are
not a member yet... you can sign up here.

This is not mandatory.

To download the new update simply log in to members
area and click the Download link and you will just be installing
the new version into MT4.

It will be called Broker Arbitrage 16 instead of 15.

Click Here for Members Area.

Okay, let's get to the important stuff, here are the changes
(all settings are described in the manual):

Hedge feature: You can turn on hedging if you would like.
Max Trade Attempts: You don't really need to change this,
but if you have trade issues for opening / closing, this will control
attempts made.
Stop Loss / Take Profit Control: This is the most important
part of this update. You can control take profit and stop loss.
This is important because some broker and vps combinations
require some changes. The take profit is very low, it does have
ability to trail, but depending on variables can close at 1 pip take
profit. Which can be bad for commission accounts and slippage.
So you can increase the take profit if you need to, which can
help significantly. Vice versa you can control stop loss as well.

Sincerely,

Mark Reid'

Raytonic posted:

shirazgulkhan posted:

Raytonic posted:
I switched from a 2003 Server, 2 Core, 1.5 GB RAM, 30 SSD to a 2012 R2 Server, 4 Core, 2 GB RAM, 30 SSD. I still have the same provider CNS. My bad luck on Friday was on the old server setup. Let's see how things are going next week. I notice a substancial speed increase just by using the new server through RDP.

what they are charging/month for this configuration?

The setup costs me USD85/month.

Please check your inbox and reply. i sent 2 email. thankyou

Did you check your order execution speed by the way? It's worth doing, it will tell you if they flagged your account or not.
Best regards Steve

how test that steve?

parlavink posted:
how test that steve?

use this EA:
https://www.abundancetradinggroup.com/trade-execution-speed-tester/

but ideally, the arbitrage EA itself should monitor the execution speed. as a real trading activity may be different compared to a test.
like million dollars pips EA provides this type of information.

the test EA did not do buy or sell orders, just place order away from the signal, this gives some indication, and should be faster than a buy order...

It's pointless sending limit orders. They're handled completely differently by the broker.

Latency from your server to the broker's server is another thing entirely, that's not what you're trying to measure here.

You need to raise actual market orders and then monitor the speed of execution from the MT4 journal.

So simply create an order for your smallest lot size and then close it straight away and check what the execution speed was.

Best regards Steve

okay thanks all........

At most I had 31ms doing the test. Good or bad?

31ms is awesome. compared to the 400ms I can see using a demo account with pepperstone...
so in fact 31ms is too good to be true :)

I did a new test for you to see.

Can anyone see if this was a EA problem or a broker problem?

01:30:09.464 '500018': order was opened : #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973
01:30:09.464 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:09.729 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:09.808 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:09.808 Notifications: 'order opened #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973' sent to '86A4729F'
01:30:09.854 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:09.933 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:10.354 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:10.433 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:10.776 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:10.854 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:11.229 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:11.308 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:11.886 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:11.979 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:12.558 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD closing at 0.00000 failed [Off quotes]
01:30:12.636 '500018': close order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 at price 0.00000
01:30:13.183 '500018': order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 sl: 1.68572 tp: 1.68973 closed at price 1.68747
01:30:13.511 Notifications: 'order #118827 buy 0.52 GBPUSD at 1.68920 closed at price 1.68747, profit: -89.96 USD' sent to '86A4729F'

As I said you're wasting your time placing pending orders and using the tool Wilgart suggested. Pending orders are treated completely different to market orders. If Pepperstone have flagged you account your will only see it by placing market orders.

Best regards Steve

Steve, do you see if my above log could be the effect of a flagged account?

If I'm reading that correctly then that's the GbpUsd from the time of this morning's Services PMI news release at 9.30am. As far as my chart is concerned, GbpUsd reached a high of 1.68816 at 9.30, which means you were filled around 10 pips above the highest price that bar reached. I don't have the tick data to know how that bar traced to tell you anything about the exit. Nor do I have the spread data, although I can probably get hold of it, but I'd be surprised if it was 10 pips. However if I got a fill 10 pips above the high of a bar I'd be pretty unhappy.

What I'd be more interested in is seeing exactly what time your order was sent to the server, so the lines before these ones. An arbitrage opportunity on a news spike would be more likely to be seen at the start of the move, not towards the end, which makes your fill 10 pips above the high of the bar even more appalling.

If this were my account, I'd be closing it.

Best thing you can do at the moment is put a market order in for 0.01 lots and then close it and then check the execution times on that.

Might be that they've flagged you as a news spike trader rather than an arbitrage trader. The two often get mixed up by brokers as they often get trades at the same times.

Best regards Steve

Stebe B,
You are right. see what pepperstone replied today.
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Thank you for your patience while we investigate this further, we are still speaking to our IT team to identify the underlying reason why this issue occurred.

It does appear at this stage that there was a delay in execution, which may have been related to the auto processing queue which was overloaded during non-farm payrolls.

However, we do notice that your EA was attempting to request stale prices, that is, prices that no longer are available in the market, so we suspect that this may be part of the reason why you received trade rejections.

An analysis of the data at the time reveals that your EA was requesting a price that was some distance above the market price at the time the trades were rejected, and there was no way that we could fill such an order as the price did not exist.

I hope we better understand why this hapend and how we safe in future trading with this EA.

Raytonic, did you receive any mail from pepperstone?

Pepperstone will say..
Blah blah blah news release blah blah liquidity in the market blah blah spreads blah blah blah endeavour to give best fills blah blah blah nothing we can do. Sorry.
Best regards Steve

Raytonic , you should try exness they won the best order execution in 2013 https://www.exness.com/about_us/awards