Most efficient way to pass orders to other mt4

I am trying to replicate my orders my EA is placing to an alternate mt4 platform on the same machine. Currently what I am doing is storing a variable in both EA's that are running on each platform. The platform that places the trade increments the variable and writes to a file in the target platform Files directory. On the next tick, the EA on the target platform open the file to check to see if the variable has been modified. If the number was incremented by the source platform, the target platform places the trade. It works but it hardly efficient.

Does anyone else have an idea how I can accomplish this more efficiently?

Thanks!

I think this is probably already the most efficient way. I would simply load the EA onto more charts(prob up to 4) to speed the process up. Or......

You could also use an EA in an endless loop to read the transfer file, rather than waiting for a new tick each time.

Something like :-

While(File_Empty){Sleep(1)}
ReadFile(............);
RefreshRates();
OrderSend(............);
Empty_File();

File_Empty would be a routine that inspects the transfer file, so while there is no trade in it, it will simply continue checking, so it would not operate on a tick basis.

Shared memory by use of a DLL is the best way to accomplish this if you are up to writing with other languages. This article details how to do it. I am sure there are other ways, but this should work. I want to do something similar and will be giving this a try.

http://articles.mql4.com/508

This is how I accomplished this. It took me quite a while to figure it out. I created a c++ shared memory space, then one mt4 platform writes to it via dll (in my case I was passing doubles to an array in the shared space), and the other platform had an EA that constantly checked the shared memory space while being trapped in a while loop with a sleep cycle of about 100 milliseconds.

I posted this sometime ago

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...33#post2196633