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  • #7,321
  • May 9, 2011 6:59am May 9, 2011 6:59am
Quoting powerlexus
Today I miss a data on all pairs beginning from end of Friday on MBT Desktop Pro. On MT4 demo all is correct. Does anybody experiencing the same problem?
Sreenshot from demo acc, but on real all the same.
I also have the same problem. Very annoying. Hope they'll fix it quickly.
  • #7,322
  • May 9, 2011 7:08am May 9, 2011 7:08am
By the way, during the big moves on the EUR last week, some of my market orders didnt get filled immediately, resulting in some slippage.

I was using market orders vs. limit ones to avoid this issue. Is this normal in times of high volatility?

My understanting was that with an ECN broker, their access to liquidity (especially in the EUR) would not expose me to this problem...
  • #7,323
  • May 9, 2011 8:32am May 9, 2011 8:32am
jleblang,
why the Chinese customer can not get the $1.95 for the limited orders?It is an unfair item.
  • #7,324
  • May 9, 2011 10:40am May 9, 2011 10:40am
Quoting angus
Lets try this one more time!
Any news? Anyone at MBT care?
Angus,

I think that this might be a case of miscommunication. For example, we obviously provide our own data feed as a compilation of the banks and ECN.

Please hit me up in private message and I will have someone in the company contact you directly.
  • #7,325
  • May 9, 2011 11:47am May 9, 2011 11:47am
Quoting blueJ
No they aren't. Buy at market, or limit above ask. Be prepared to pay if you want to catch something that is moving away from you.
I think (at least with regards to the EURUSD) the high volatility we haven't seen in six or seven months combined with this being such a strong correction / reversal / whatever you want to call it is throwing off a lot of newer or younger traders. I've been seeing quite a few more posters complain that their brokers are intentionally slipping them or trading against them, and I'm pretty sure that's just not the case in most examples; it's just a function of a manic market
  • #7,326
  • May 9, 2011 2:14pm May 9, 2011 2:14pm
I am trying to enter a trade via DEMO and LIVE environment using MT4, but I keep getting Offquotes since this morning. Is anyone else having the same problem?
  • #7,327
  • May 9, 2011 8:04pm May 9, 2011 8:04pm
The gap that existed in the Historical tick data from Sunday to Monday Morning has been filled in and is available on the server.

If you are using NinjaTrader, you can force the patch to download using

Tools>>>Historical DataManager>>>Download>>>

Highlight the instrument on the left and enter Start Date 5/8/2011 to 5/9/2011. Check the boxes tick and Last.

Then Click Download Button.

I tried opening a new tick chart, charting only for 5/8 to 5/9, which should as far as I know, have downloaded the data with the settings I had set, but doing it that way kept the gap between 5PM Sunday and 10:12 AM Monday.

Doing the manual download as outlined above filled in the gap.
  • #7,328
  • May 10, 2011 4:25am May 10, 2011 4:25am
Quoting powerlexus
Today I miss a data on all pairs beginning from end of Friday on MBT Desktop Pro. On MT4 demo all is correct. Does anybody experiencing the same problem?
Sreenshot from demo acc, but on real all the same.
There is no real gap in price, its just a perceived gap due to software/feed bugs. It often happens when I switch between instruments, then all of a sudden i see gaps... then eventually, if i keep switching instruments, or i log out or something, (not sure what triggers it really), the data fills in.

I have never seen a gap happen in realtime as I am watching a chart, its always when I am flipping thru.
  • #7,329
  • May 10, 2011 8:39am May 10, 2011 8:39am
I have posted some problems here previously and then to not cause too much of a stir in the forum, have come back and told everyone how good the MBT support staff was in trying to resolve everything. But this morning shows the continuing problem with MT4. Since I wasn't ready to place a trade, I have been sitting here watching the price feed between MT4 and Desktop. MT4 freezes and price continues to move on the Desktop. It's that simple. MT4 has issues! It doesn't matter where one is located in the world or whether one is using the MBT VPS. It is still the same issue. It's certainly not a morning that has had a lot of news, so things can't be blamed on that.

What goes here?

Steve
  • #7,330
  • May 10, 2011 4:15pm May 10, 2011 4:15pm
Quoting jleblang
Angus,

I think that this might be a case of miscommunication. For example, we obviously provide our own data feed as a compilation of the banks and ECN.

Please hit me up in private message and I will have someone in the company contact you directly.
Thanks for the reply, but not to worry, I've decided to move on.
  • #7,331
  • May 10, 2011 7:09pm May 10, 2011 7:09pm
Quoting blueJ
There is no real gap in price, its just a perceived gap due to software/feed bugs. It often happens when I switch between instruments, then all of a sudden i see gaps... then eventually, if i keep switching instruments, or i log out or something, (not sure what triggers it really), the data fills in.

I have never seen a gap happen in realtime as I am watching a chart, its always when I am flipping thru.
You are right, there are no gaps in forex. So what is this? It is not a glich or computer problem, the gaps are not on any other pairs.
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  • #7,332
  • May 10, 2011 7:17pm May 10, 2011 7:17pm
Here is another.
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  • #7,333
  • May 10, 2011 11:37pm May 10, 2011 11:37pm
Another 8 pip gap that shows clearly on the m5. How you supposed to trade this mess when you never know when it is going to gap.
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  • #7,334
  • May 10, 2011 11:59pm May 10, 2011 11:59pm
you encounter the no quotes on the platform mt4 or desktop pro?Can you recomment the 2 other brokers platforms ?

Quoting mdiz2
What the hell has happened to MB trading? I trade euro/dollar and for the last week it is gapping all over the place, even in the middle of the day when there is no news. I have 2 other brokers platforms and they show none of the gaps and I checked with some friends and they have no gaps either. It only happens on eu on my platform.

A couple of days ago I got screwed out of 17 pips by a gap over my stop and then when I tried to close it I get a no quotes message. A couple of days earlier I tried to close a trade in profit and got the no quotes...
  • #7,335
  • May 11, 2011 12:52am May 11, 2011 12:52am
Quoting kendi
is there anyone used the nav platform encounter the similar condition :quote delays,or off quoted ,or disconnected as to mt4?
I don't think it is as rampant on Nav as it is with MT4. They make Nav better, b/c if they don't, who would they pass the blame too? With MT4 it is always Metaquotes fault, according to them.
Also, don't you know that this is a cheerleading thread? You are only suppose to post positive comments. If you are having a problem, they want you to PM them, and not make it public by posting. That way, prospective clients cannot make an intelligent decision as to wheter to use them or not
  • #7,336
  • May 11, 2011 2:26am May 11, 2011 2:26am
Quoting blueJ
There is no real gap in price, its just a perceived gap due to software/feed bugs. It often happens when I switch between instruments, then all of a sudden i see gaps... then eventually, if i keep switching instruments, or i log out or something, (not sure what triggers it really), the data fills in.

I have never seen a gap happen in realtime as I am watching a chart, its always when I am flipping thru.
There was a technical problem Sunday on the historical data server that was fixed sometime Monday morning. It was for historical data only not live feeds. A call to Technical service Sunday night let me know they were aware of the problem and working on a fix.

Although it was fixed ASAP, and was working for me at 10:12 AM Monday, it took me a while to figure out how to fill in the gap as NinjaTrader was acting in an unexpected way, not downloading from the sever to the local historical database for the hours covered by the outage. I just posted my little bit to help out anyone else trying to get NinjaTrader to work.

The gaps other people are complaining about I am not seeing, but I'm using a different platform I suspect... I never see gaps in live data in NinjaTrader. But getting NinjaTrader to play nice with historical data can sometimes be a real bitch.
  • #7,337
  • May 11, 2011 7:52am May 11, 2011 7:52am
The ability to deposit and withdraw with credit card is really great,
I never saw that coming, it make it so much easyer,
it's nice to see improvements at MBT,
Bulls are stupid Animals!especially when Im short!
  • #7,338
  • May 11, 2011 10:30am May 11, 2011 10:30am
The delay,disconnection ,no quotes of excution is for mt4 or nav(desktop)?


Quoting roughtrader
somehow I knew you was going to say that.
the slow execution of MBT is widely known
so having a look at my acount won't solve the problem
I can understand that you don't want to admit this in public,
the 5 secs was an extrem, but it has happend more than once
the question is, what are you going to do about it on your side?
if you don't have a liquidity problem then it must be badly
configured servers, software,
or something I don't have a clue about.
  • #7,339
  • May 11, 2011 10:33am May 11, 2011 10:33am
Do you means that you use the market oreder,but the MB take 5 secs to excute?The suck sticked order?


Quoting roughtrader
yes I am a scalper, that is why fast executions are so important to me, I need to get in and out very fast. I use both limit, stop limit and market orders, generally I find limit orders are too slow for me in fast mooving markets, it depends how fast I want to get in if I use them or not, I know I will get a price less good but market orders get filled faster, and that will be worth more in the end, but ofcource not if the executions are up to 5 secs :/ I can see what you mean with limit orders but I think that will only work with a trend since...
  • #7,340
  • May 11, 2011 11:12am May 11, 2011 11:12am
Quoting mdiz2
Another 8 pip gap that shows clearly on the m5. How you supposed to trade this mess when you never know when it is going to gap.
mdiz2, I don't use MT4 so I can't specifically comment on that platform, but I know that when I hit a deadzone / lose my connection briefly, there will be small gaps on Desktop Pro. Is it possible you are losing your connection intermittently and it's causing these gaps?

Quoting wwwin
I don't think it is as rampant on Nav as it is with MT4. They make Nav better, b/c if they don't, who would they pass the blame too? With MT4 it is always Metaquotes fault, according to them.
Oh yes, I'm sure they are intentionally making MT4 have issues. Pissing off your clients is after all a great way to get them to invest more money with you, am I right?
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