Sloowww Mt4..a Cure?

Any ideas on how to speed up my MT4 trading platform? It loads and performs very slowly. MT Support said to reload it but that didn't help. Thanks.

remove any custom indicators or EAs... poorly written ones can cause sluggish behaviour (although they are far and few between - poorly written sluggish ones, not poorly written ones - those abound

Try ycomp's suggestion first, a badly written indicator can really trash performance. If that doesn't help, the only other thing I can think of is to reduce max bars in chart. I actually doubt that will help though, since it shouldn't affect load time.

If you use historical data and offline charts for backtesting, this could be slowing things down as well as MT4 throws this data into memory cache. I use a seperate install for backtesting to avoid slowdowns in my live trading account.

If you do find out it is an ea or and indicator but want to keep it, then you can probably rewrite it for good performance. Just some people write things without thinking about impact on performance.

...for all of your suggestions. I am going to download a separate version w/o EAs or custom indicators and see if I can isolate the culprit!

All great ideas and I will work with this. But.....

I have a Fozzy set-up and have added a few Indicators I really like and performance gets really bad after about the 7-8th chart.

It may be poorly written Indicators, but if I want to keep them, is it more RAM or faster processor that should help this?

I am only at 950 mhz and 1 gig RAM, so I can improve either...

Thanks, Wayne