MT4 Platform and Internet Connection Outages?

Hi Guys,

Ok so been working on a indicator with my friend for some time now and we have hit a little bit of a brick wall. The idea is the indicator we have created runs and records the pips moving back and forth on the creation of any given candle that is the basis for most of its data.

Now the question i had was, ive noticed sometimes the MT4 platform or my internet connection albeit very rarely goes down. And during this down period for example 1 hour as i remember once the indicator is unable to collect any of the data i have mentioned above. So therefore the indicator misaligns and becomes inaccurate and integrity suffers it eventually does realaign itself after 2 full hours!

The question is what are the ways of making sure the integrity of the data is correct when this happens? The ideas me and my friend had was to run it on multiple platforms at the same time. This would help in the issues involving the internet connection going down but it might still be a issue if MT4 goes down as that would go down on all platforms.

I hope that all makes sense if anyones got any idea/suggestions would love to hear them! :-)

It has been my experience that the problem is with the broker server and not on the client side. For instance, when I run two platforms side by side, one will go down and other keeps chugging along. When the connection is re-established, the missing chart data is updated, but of course the tick data which you want is lost forever. VPS hosting will do nothing to help this situation. Using two different broker feeds will present some of its own challenges as the prices will vary and the tick interval will be inconsistent.

If I think of something else I will post later.

Thanks for that, although it doesnt help me it does give me some structure on the other plan i had to run multiple platforms! As i said i think running on multiple instances on VPS would only really help as far as internet connection going down is concerned but not if there are broker issues as you have mentioned. But yeah your right once the connection is established the pip data is lost forever and thats the very data which forms part of the function on the data that i perform.

Yeah there will be a obvious problem of pip data being different from broker to broker, this presents the main issue here.

Keep the suggestions coming guys, some of you must have found workarounds for this issue...

Metatrader has just been exposed, there are some videos on youtube which show how they spike prices to hunt stops, create delayed executions and can actually change the price that an order has already been executed at in the platform.