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MT4 Spread Ripper => automatically log Spread values to file?

  • #1
  • First Post: Apr 19, 2019 8:57am Apr 19, 2019 8:57am
Hi everyone,

I'm currently comparing the spread of various MT4 brokers (IG Europe, IC Markets, JFD, etc). Does anyone know if there's a tool/plugin/indicator/set of scripts which will automatically log/save the spread values of MT4 FX pairs which you've specified to some kind of .csv or Excel or .txt file as long as MT4 is running?

It would be ideal if it did that automatically every couple of minutes. If you did this with 3 different MT4 installations, you could gather spread information of various FX pairs over some period of time and then let Excel compare them and calculate averages, median, maximum peaks, etc.

Does anything like that exist?
  • #2
  • Apr 19, 2019 9:22am Apr 19, 2019 9:22am
Quoting bippo
Hi everyone, I'm currently comparing the spread of various MT4 brokers (IG Europe, IC Markets, JFD, etc). Does anyone know if there's a tool/plugin/indicator/set of scripts which will automatically log/save the spread values of MT4 FX pairs which you've specified to some kind of .csv or Excel or .txt file as long as MT4 is running? It would be ideal if it did that automatically every couple of minutes. If you did this with 3 different MT4 installations, you could gather spread information of various FX pairs over some period of time and then let...
I've come across such a thing but I don't remember where it was so keep searching. I'm not sure if it had to option to save in a spreadsheet.
  • #3
  • Apr 19, 2019 1:18pm Apr 19, 2019 1:18pm
Quoting bippo
Hi everyone, I'm currently comparing the spread of various MT4 brokers .....It would be ideal if it did that automatically every couple of minutes. Does anything like that exist?
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hey bip..... I wrote something years ago to simultaneously compare Oanda and Fxcm on various marketinfo metrics, spread was one of those...


When comparing the intra broker relationships between the marketinfo metrics there is no problem.... but when comparing those same metrics between brokers, aligning the data becomes difficult in excel unless your sampling on a known time.... such as on the minute or multiple of minutes.... sampling every tick is an excel aligning nightmare...

if i can locate that code will upload it......h
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
  • #4
  • Edited 2:17pm Apr 19, 2019 1:58pm | Edited 2:17pm
While hayseed looks for that code, there is this you can look at: https://www.myfxbook.com/en/forex-broker-spreads
This one separates FIXED from variable spreads: https://www.100forexbrokers.com/comp...okers-spreads/
One more: https://www.gurutrade.com/forex-spreads/


You may be able to copy and paste the data into Excel to crunch numbers further.
  • #5
  • Last Post: Apr 19, 2019 11:09pm Apr 19, 2019 11:09pm
You find some on the MQL5 forum, one of it.

https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10102
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