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  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 2, 2015 10:59am Jul 2, 2015 10:59am
Hey how is everyone doing on this fine Thursday Evening!
I always find myself creeping the Platform Technical threads, good amounts of knowledge to be found here.

Anyways, I'm here to gain some insight on the following (as always your opinions and advice are greatly appreciated!)

I have made an observation in regards to Server Selection in MT4. Long story short MT4 selects a slower Server automatically, after I after manually select a Server with lower delay.
It's a little bit irritating why would they allow manual selection of your preferred server... only to override it and choose a slower one after several minutes. Below I've attached a screenshot, you can see that it chooses 5.73ms over the 0.74ms Server...this is insanity
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So ladies and gents is there any way to work around this? Any sort of script/EA that could be made to automatically keep selecting the faster server... is it even possible to program such a thing even if it's external to MT4 such as a macro... anyone know any programmer capable of such work?
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  • #2
  • Jul 2, 2015 5:21pm Jul 2, 2015 5:21pm
I think you might want to email metaquotes/broker live chat about this, might not necessarily be better on lower ping time server. Maybe the server that is auto selected for you has best latency? I don't really know, but interesting.
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  • #3
  • Jul 2, 2015 5:44pm Jul 2, 2015 5:44pm
Quoting Rparm
Hey how is everyone doing on this fine Thursday Evening! I always find myself creeping the Platform Technical threads, good amounts of knowledge to be found here. Anyways, I'm here to gain some insight on the following (as always your opinions and advice are greatly appreciated!) I have made an observation in regards to Server Selection in MT4. Long story short MT4 selects a slower Server automatically, after I after manually select a Server with lower delay. It's a little bit irritating why would they allow manual selection of your preferred server......
You need to bear in mind that the servers aren't all necessarily doing the same job. For example, your 0.74ms server follows a totally different naming convention to the other trading ones (Live DCx...), which may lead us to surmise that it is not the proper server for your account to connect to. Much like demo servers versus live servers.

MT4 documentation on how the server auto detect runs is scant... well, actually it is non-existent.
Again, using our friend Mr. Supposition, we may conclude that MetaQuotes is applying the same criteria to MetaTrader 4 as it does for MetaTrader 5. Conveniently, MetaTrader 5 does have some documentation on the topic (emphasis added):
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The connection of the client terminal to a trade server is performed through special access servers, that are the part of the trading platform. When connecting the best access point is chosen (the least server load and the best quality of connection). The automatic checking of best access point is performed every three hours of working.
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In order to switch to one of access points you should click on its name. It is necessary to mention that at the next network scanning the best server will be chosen automatically.
  • #4
  • Jul 2, 2015 6:29pm Jul 2, 2015 6:29pm
Thanks for the clarification guys!

Much appreciated I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to Network Systems
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  • #5
  • Last Post: Jul 7, 2015 4:07pm Jul 7, 2015 4:07pm
Quoting Rparm
Thanks for the clarification guys! Much appreciated I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to Network Systems

Too naive to think this "stupid" issue may occur in well-established and thoroughly tested MT4 software.
Before I was playing with the servers too, yielded no improvement. Then I gave up in playing techy guy
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