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Old Tick - MT4

  • #1
  • First Post: Feb 22, 2010 6:07am Feb 22, 2010 6:07am
Hi Guys, relatively new to the forum in terms of posts... just wondering if others have been getting the 'Old Tick' message on MT4?

Any idea what it means and if it is causing a problem?
  • #2
  • Feb 22, 2010 6:52am Feb 22, 2010 6:52am
I have seen it from time to time. I think it happens when market activity picks up and the ticks coming from the server get out of order for one reason or another. So tick #3 is sent to the client before tick #2 is sent. Then when tick #2 is received, the client rejects it with the "old tick" message you are seeing. One tick more or less isn't going to cause a problem. Strangely enough, I can't remember seeing it in the past month or so.
  • #3
  • Feb 22, 2010 8:49am Feb 22, 2010 8:49am
  •  onu
  • | Joined Feb 2006 | Status: superior senior member | 746 Posts
I see this on Gomarkets live acc. every single day....


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  • #4
  • Feb 23, 2010 1:57am Feb 23, 2010 1:57am
Quoting CodeMeister
I have seen it from time to time. I think it happens when market activity picks up and the ticks coming from the server get out of order for one reason or another. So tick #3 is sent to the client before tick #2 is sent. Then when tick #2 is received, the client rejects it with the "old tick" message you are seeing. One tick more or less isn't going to cause a problem. Strangely enough, I can't remember seeing it in the past month or so.

Thats been my understanding but it is not easy to get exact details. It seems that it has no damage to my trading, but always like to know what is going on! I was also told that it could be the EA not reacting fast enough? I use Megadroid which seems to hit spikes?
  • #5
  • Feb 23, 2010 4:30am Feb 23, 2010 4:30am
Quoting Steph
Thats been my understanding but it is not easy to get exact details. It seems that it has no damage to my trading, but always like to know what is going on! I was also told that it could be the EA not reacting fast enough? I use Megadroid which seems to hit spikes?

It is not the EA causing the problem. But some people have reported that the EA is negatively affected by the error. There are numerous errors that can happen such as disconnects and requotes as well as old ticks. If the EA handles them inappropriately or not at all, then the EA may not function properly. For instance, orders aren't closed, stops aren't adjusted. But the cause of the problem is out of control of the EA and all it can do is react.

I wouldn't do anything unless I suspected problems with the charts or the EA's functioning. The ultimate solution may well be changing brokers and that is not something you want to do unless absolutely necessary. By the way, my broker is FXDD.
  • #6
  • Feb 23, 2010 6:07am Feb 23, 2010 6:07am
Thanks CodeMeister. It doesnt seem to be having any impact on my trading, so I will just leave it!
  • #7
  • Jun 16, 2010 10:58am Jun 16, 2010 10:58am
I received "old tick" message once every few minutes on FXCM UK. Is this problem caused by the MT4 client, network or the MT4 server(i.e broker)?

If it's caused by MT4 server, is there any resolution other than switching broker?

Thanks.
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  • #8
  • Jun 16, 2010 12:35pm Jun 16, 2010 12:35pm
FXCM is notorious for this problem in my opinion. As I noted above, my experience with FXDD was much better. I also use FXPro demo and have noticed almost daily occurrences but its not at the point where I am concerned. As I stated earlier, one tick more or less hardly matters.

If you judge your problem to be more severe, then the most effective option would be switching brokers. My bigger concern with FXCM was the number and lengths of disconnects for no apparent reason. Again other brokers don't have the problem to the same degree.
  • #9
  • Oct 27, 2010 1:07pm Oct 27, 2010 1:07pm
  •  zigizum
  • | Joined Aug 2010 | Status: Not in a hurry too blow my account | 52 Posts
Quoting matthiasoy
I received "old tick" message once every few minutes on FXCM UK. Is this problem caused by the MT4 client, network or the MT4 server(i.e broker)?

If it's caused by MT4 server, is there any resolution other than switching broker?

Thanks.

Did you found some other broker mate?

I use multiple EA on demo to get the results, but couldn't found a good broker with good server....the best till now is alpari, but doesn't have currency pairs i need...like cadjpy and others...

any new experience about that?
  • #10
  • Last Post: Oct 27, 2010 1:10pm Oct 27, 2010 1:10pm
Open up the root directory for MT4...go to history...sort by .hst files. DELETE ALL of these.

Restart MT4...problem solved...I do this every Friday before the Close and haven't seen a single Old Tick error in a few months.
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