Metaquotes.net server DOWN?

I use MT4 and I am unable to get any feed from the Metaquotes.net server to demo trade, this has been going on for about 24~ hours now. Metaquotes.net (the website) is also unreachable.

Are any others having this issue?

Anyone have any news? Was this planned?

I'm completely in the dark here.

Andy

I also cannot get a feed from Metaquotes demo feed. I have been trying to find any other brokers that provide a feed based on the same server time on a MT4 platform but have not been successful yet.

I tried using my system on another server feed but the candles and records were all out significantly so that's no use.

If you have any ideas can you drop me an email with them?

All the best

Mister ED

I've been without a feed from "MetaQuotes-demo" since early Wednesday, I believe. I've reinstalled several times and even tried system restore to roll back some Windows updates. I still cannot connect. I hadn't been trading live for the past couple months but my IBFX live account is not getting a feed, either. I'm going to see what their HD has to say about it and will post in the metaquotes forum as well. I'll update with any information....

-R

TO ra457: It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with your computer, because I can't even get the website Metaquotes.net to load, on any of my computers. You search for "mt4" in google and metaquotes.net is the first website to come up, so its not like its some obscure website. This is pretty weird, that it has gone on this long.

Glad to hear it isn't just me at least. I do hope they get back up and going soon, most other brokers I've tried don't display weekly candles correctly and it messes up my Weekly Pivot Points, something I've griped about on here before.

Hey Andy,

I just got out of the chat with the IBFX rep and am now able to connect to their demo and live servers. I haven't the slightest idea why I was unable to connect previously. It must have been some kind of Help Desk voodoo We changed nothing... just a reinstall as I had done twice already unsuccessfully this evening.

At any rate, I did in fact see that metaquotes.net is currently down. The site itself went down last month but didn't take the servers with it. I did, however, find this post from yesterday on their sister site perhaps giving some degree of insight into the current state of operations there.

- http://forum.mql4.com/19634 -

In the meantime, guys, try IBFX if nothing is working for you. It's the exact same MT4 build. Indicators (weekly pivots) will display just fine.

https://secure.ibfx.com/accounts/opendemo.aspx

Backup your /experts, /templates & /profiles directories -> fill out the form at the above link-> dL & install platform - > drag and drop the backed-up directories into the new IBFX directory and overwrite the existing -> set up your new account.

All of your charts will look exactly as they did in MT4 when it lost the connection.

Solid! I woulda been sweating it much harder had I not pulled down 4% on Monday

Good luck and let me know. IBFX will have more reliable price feeds as well...

I appreciate you pointing me to IBFX, but they plot their weekly candles with data from MONDAY-SUNDAY instead of SUNDAY-FRIDAY. This forces me to MANUALLY calculate and plot my weekly pivot points for every pair I want to trade with data that runs from SUNDAY-FRIDAY. (do you have an indicator to deal with this problem by chance? :-) )

I can't believe how many brokers do this, its a nightmare to find one that plots them right (or how I want it at least). And on top of that I have 2 OTHER instances of MT4 (fx-pro, ODL) running from other demo servers in order to see commodities like OIL, GOLD and markets like the DJ, FTSE, CAC, DAX, etc...

Am I asking for too much? I dunno...

ra457, I do appreciate your help, this is just a situation I've been dealing with for months now, and everything has gone wacko.


Andy

Hey Andy...

I meant to bring a few custom pivot point indies with me to work today to see if I could get tehm to work from S-F for you but I forgot them. I've got a few that might be able to reflect those time constraints.

Sorry for the delayed response and.. actually, if you want to PM me, I'll send you a daily pivots indie I've been using with pretty good success as a qualifying condition. It's great, as a matter of fact

I'll start playing with the weekly pivots this evening but no guarantees!!

-R

It would be great to find a WEEKLY pivot point plotter that looks at daily candles instead of weekly candles, since so many brokers plot their weekly candles differently. But I really have looked around, and to no avail. Perhaps it can't be programmed.

Thing is, I have two different indicators that will let me select the hour I want to base DAILY pivot points on, midnight, Tokyo open, NY close, etc. These are great.

Maybe a lot of traders don't use weekly pivots, but I find price often respects them, not as much as daily ones perhaps. I plot monthly pivots too but rarely see them respected.

BTW -- Metaquotes feed is back up...just in time for the weekend! LOL


andy