MT4 and trading platform scaling issues

Hi.

Everyone.

I would like to discuss the trading plattforms scaling issues.
Some years ago i was searching the net for indicators and i came across this guy talking about how dangerous mt4 was to trade with mechanical trading due to its scaling issues.
Well i see many other plattforms have this issues aswell and i wonder what they are based on or what the root causes is.
In many instances when you add indicators may it be in subwindows or not the indicators redraw and repaint themselfs when checking past history or zoom levels.
Becouse of this i need to readjust the zoom level to have indicators fith the movments of the price movments.
Now iam not a programer to understand the problem i do understand that repainting scaling would exist at different timeframes but not on zoom levels of the chart.
This brings me to a pretty problematic situation also when i adjust the charts when they are full open window standalone then when splitting them up and the windows shrink iam back at a repainting scale level and makes it abit confusing if you wanna keep an eye on several charts manually..
I Doubt iam the only one noticing this and have a problem with this and i wonder if there is any plattforms that do not have this issue or if there is a simple way to explain this effect for a noob on mql infrastructure or overall plattforms ?

Yes there are many "guys" talking a lot when it comes to trading. As with the 95% rule you can safely assume that 95% of the public talk is bullshit. Retail traders have a very general problem: Too little access to good information, and too large exposure to bad information.

If you specifically ask for platform scaling issues I can assure you that MetaTrader is one of the available retail platforms with the least scaling issues (means it scales well). That is talking about how resources are managed and handled. Every other known retail platform - say NinjaTrader, NeoTicker, MutiCharts, TradeStation, ESignal, ThinkOrSwim, SierraCharts, AmiBroker - are worse than MetaTrader (with NinjaTrader being the worst and the latest 3 being the best).

But from your question I assume that your concern is not really resource scaling but screen scaling. And what the "guy" told you here is just utter nonsense. Screen scaling has nothing to do with the platform and the quality of indicators used on it. Quality of indicators (repainting or not) is not platform specific but a matter of developer knowledge/experience.

It would be similar to saying: JavaScript is a dangerous language because every scriptkiddy can write JavaScript and thus the quality of publicly available JavaScript examples is bad on average.

Hi emmzett.

Yes i noticed the issue on other plattforms aswell lastly was on tradingview when i tried to run a correlation strategy with the compare tool and zooming in and out.
And as you say also that some indicators dont repaint at all.
Is the issue then a matter of quality coding?
Yes the issue is screen scaling as you say when you zoom in and out or the chart is shrinked.
Only way i found to compensate it is by learning to read price action to some level.

One can say a lot of bad/sad things about MT4, and justifiably so. But chart quality is an exception and is extra-ordinary compared to other platforms. I mean it in the literal sense as "not as average but above the average". With MT4 I don't need VWAP analysis to spot high or low volume nodes, a close look at the candles is enough. That's really something where MT4 is better than the competition. But different people look for different things ... and that may be just me.

I Really like this mt4 plattform its expetionally easy to use.
Its almost like a relationship lol.
True about people there .