Consolidating Metatrader feeds?

There is one particularly annoying problem with being in a university: They severely limit the bandwith allotted per week.

Is there any way I can have one metatrader terminal piggy back off of another terminal's feed?

Example: There is one collector terminal for all the demo accounts, and one collector terminal for all the live accounts.

The demo collector then distributes the data in real time to the remaining demo accounts.

mt4 uses ridiculously little bandwidth -- you can probably get a monthful of tickdata for a gazillion symbols for the same bandwidth it takes to browse youtube for 5 minutes.

I suggest you dont browse youtube or other video sites

The term 'little bandwidth' can mean different things to different people. For those of us with cable broadband the 2 gig per month I use on MT4 is almost nothing compared to total use. But I agree a few videos or downloaded files add up quickly.

I have a number of terminals that average over 90mb a month each. The one shown below is running EAs on 10 out of 20 open charts and runs continuously 6 days a week.


Below is daily use this month for the same terminal.

If I'm understanding that little number in the bottom right corner of the terminal, It's the download/upload total.

If that's the case, I'm pulling in and putting out 50MB/terminal across 20 terminals = 1GB/week.

Youtube and other video sites are blocked here, (I know, it really sucks). So that can't be the problem.

I'm not sure what else eats through my bandwidth. But can either of you recommend some sort of bandwidth monitor which can trace bandwidth by application? Google shows me plenty of shiny (and probably over-hyped) commercial ones.

My screen shots are from this program. I don't know how accurate it is. I use the freeware one.

Ronald, 50MB per terminal does sound like a lot unless you have all of them on M1.

If you have duplicate feeds, set your max bars in history down to the minimum your stradegies can afford, then delete the excess.

Can any of you explain in more detail opening charts in "offline mode"?

I have one terminal right now collecting pips and putting them in a file. I'm wondering if I can internally stream the tick data to the remaining terminals.

And for the record, most terminals have more than 20 pairs and EAs on each. I generally trade a pair with less than 10 pips spread (except for GJ) and ATR > 100 pips.

So, figure 30 pairs at any one moment =D Overkill, I think, but I don't know how else to milk more pips.