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the critisms of one outage for approx 3 hours are a bit harsh to be honest if it occurred frequently then I could understand it. We have had instances where the entire LSE has gone down on at least 2 occaisions in the past couple of years. That is with a huge amount of redundancy in their...

technical problems happen links going down is pretty rare but it does happen it only takes an optic link and most of those are shared because of the capacity available. It's possible it affected a number of businesses not just SLM.

the spike that never was, what nonsense it was plain to see and it was on SB Demo and Live. Some people got it some didn't but when it actually stops out a live trade it isn't really a laughing matter, just because it wasn't on your account doesn't mean it didn't happen. Why defend these...

to add to the mystery I had a system short on GBPUSD that in fairness got stopped just before the spike but I'm wondering did they have too many positions on one side and they targetted some customers but not others. Does beg the question.

I missed the debate on the smartlive spike but checked their demo, and live as I run them all on VMs and TadawulFX live each platform is saving the data to file. Smartlive went to 1.62695 at the same high on TadawulFX it went to 1.6205 it's a bit weird how some Smartlive users can't see it but...

If you use an EA or Script to automatically place a trade on MT4 it does show up on their system I can see mine being mentioned on the right hand side of working orders on my statements. No mention of it at any other point so when the order comes in to their server sees it's an EA or script...

lol I actually asked about their links with the Smartlivecasino they gave a pretty detailed response as it's obviously a concern by a few others. So if anybody sees a ridiculous spread on the majors I'm sure we'll hear about it here.

The EURUSD spread is pretty good value at 1.5 pips, the problem is the spread is open ended meaning there is no limit whatsoever on what level they set. Somebody a few posts away witnessed Smartlive quoting a spread of 10 pips of GBPUSD now that is unacceptable. Having spreads going that far...

VMs are memory intensive so you allocate a fixed size for each instance. I use VMs in a Dev environment so know ways to get max performance without affecting the performance of the host they're running on. They're not CPU intensive if you're running an instance of MT4 on each VM allocate say...

One thing I have found out playing around with MT4 is that it runs without any issues on a Virtual Machine, I've managed to get 3 platforms running on one XP box by running them on VMs. One XP box with loadsa RAM then three XP (or Server 2003 or server 2008) VMs each with an different brooker...

sounds like your platform is screwed on your client as I haven't had a requote all week. Might be worth trashing the Smartlive install and re-installing. Perhaps try installing it on another client box if you're saying other brokers are OK on your machine. Might even be a conflict with the...

Instant execution problems usually occur during, just before or just after news from my experience. You are better off determining price entries in advance and using pending orders that will allow you to get the entry you want regardless of news. Problem is it depends on the system if it...

Thank you for the confirmation it shows that it happens across multiple platforms at the same time. There are times when it occurs before important news then you get very large spikes up or down then a reversal all on a 1 min bar it's as if they turn off feeds then turn them back on again...

apparently this bug is a 'feature' on MT4 on all feeds: http://articles.mql4.com/136 I can't say the feature is very useful because if you log each bar as OHLC you miss blocks of data rather than getting unchanged data with each 1 min interval like you would on other charting packages e.g. Esignal.

we're talking a lot of feeds here some are primarily FX brokers that don't do SB, Smartlive being the only one on MT4. The common denominator is the MT4 platform. Is it a bug with MT4 or is it something else that's why it would be useful to compare the AUDUSD quote above to see if it shows up...