* Why mt4 so laggy

> why mt4 so laggy when i cut profit, :crazy::scratch_one-s_head:

  * > If what you mean is that your trade was not closed on time when you hit close on the terminal or that your profit closed lower than your expected profit then it means that you have a slow or bad internet connection which is delaying your orders from communicating quickly with the server, so try to get a better internet connection.

  * > I think slow internet connection is the main cause of such problems. I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow. Specially at the pick hour in country this types of slow connection are found here. When internet connection becomes faster after a while then the problem is solved.

  * > well I think when internet is slow so its mean the main cause of such problem, so I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow , so same here that you have a slow or bad internet connection which is delaying your orders from communication quickly with the server so must try to get a better internet connection now.

  * > If I understand what you mean,are you saying that when you try to execute an order it takes time,well this experience can be defined by your internet speed,if your internet speed is slow expect that your order execution would be slow too,let me give you an example let's say you try to open a page on your browser but it takes time,this is due to your internet speed and also most likely if the sever you are trying to access is experiencing lots of traffic,I guess this same traffic issue might also affect order execution,that's why your broker has multiple servers to overcome heavy traffic on a particular sever,but I can assure you that 80 percent of the time you experience slow execution its mainly due to the poor internet service your internet provider offers,so if its unbearable switch network.

  * > i don't know what exactly do you mean by laggy ,but when it comes to closing trades on profit or loss there are other factors than can affect this matter and metatrader has nothing to do with them,for example your internet speed and computer speed in addition toy your brokers execution speed abilities you should consider all that.

  * > There must be some problems that may cause your MT4 laggy when you are trying to cut your position. I think you have problem in internet connection. Kindly check your connection or try to disconnect and connect it again. This method always works for me. Otherwise, you have problem with your PC/ laptop that you use for trading. Maybe your PC/ laptop infected by malware so all the system works slower than before.

  * > There must be some problems that may cause your MT4 laggy when you are trying to cut your position. I think you have problem in internet connection. Kindly check your connection or try to disconnect and connect it again. This method always works for me. Otherwise, you have problem with your PC/ laptop that you use for trading. Maybe your PC/ laptop infected by malware so all the system works slower than before.
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> that could be the problem although metatrader platform is designed to work with the slowest internet connection,sometimes my internet connection is so slow that almost all application don't work but the only application that works is metatrader,and it loads charts and quotes with minimum connection also.

  * > I think If broker is ECN it is logical it is slower. In most casses he have to close deal on market. There are several indicators that sometimes interfere with the smoothness of MT4 because they take data from outside sources. But i dont have problem with opening and closing orders

  * > that could be the problem although metatrader platform is designed to work with the slowest internet connection,sometimes my internet connection is so slow that almost all application don't work but the only application that works is metatrader,and it loads charts and quotes with minimum connection also.
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> It is true and I admit it that our trading platform works very well even if we have slow internet connection and can not open any websites. But if we have serious bad internet connection, then it can make our trading platform act so laggy not as usual. If there is no problem with my laptop, I will check my modem or its network signal.

  * > It is true and I admit it that our trading platform works very well even if we have slow internet connection and can not open any websites. But if we have serious bad internet connection, then it can make our trading platform act so laggy not as usual. If there is no problem with my laptop, I will check my modem or its network signal.
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> that is why a trader should try to get the best internet connection he can and also if his trading size is large enough he should try to get a backup internet connection,because in some days you want to close a certain position and suddenly the internet connection goes down and you don't know what to do,and lose a lot.

  * > that is why a trader should try to get the best internet connection he can and also if his trading size is large enough he should try to get a backup internet connection,because in some days you want to close a certain position and suddenly the internet connection goes down and you don't know what to do,and lose a lot.
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> Yes, every body deserve a good internet connection but sometime accident happen and things getting worst caused by bad connection. Maybe there is no problem with the networking signal but we must pay attention to the weather and climate. Bad weather may interrupt our signal and disturb our internet connection. I think that's all the problem that may happen if our MT4 so laggy.

  * > Yes, every body deserve a good internet connection but sometime accident happen and things getting worst caused by bad connection. Maybe there is no problem with the networking signal but we must pay attention to the weather and climate. Bad weather may interrupt our signal and disturb our internet connection. I think that's all the problem that may happen if our MT4 so laggy.
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> it is funny because it happened for me yesterday and i rememberd that we have been discussing this matter here,yesterday when the GBPUSD surged and the up trend went very high i thought it might be a time for a correction and when i came to click sell my internet connection went of and when it came back again the correction already happened and i lost a lot of pips that i could have made. :).

  * > I think slow internet connection is the main cause of such problems. I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow. Specially at the pick hour in country this types of slow connection are found here. When internet connection becomes faster after a while then the problem is solved. so same here that you have a slow or bad internet connection which is delaying your orders from communication quickly with the server so must try to get a better internet connection now.

  * > I think slow internet connection is the main cause of such problems. I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow. Specially at the pick hour in country this types of slow connection are found here. When internet connection becomes faster after a while then the problem is solved. so same here that you have a slow or bad internet connection which is delaying your orders from communication quickly with the server so must try to get a better internet connection now.
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> as trader business is entirely online and we depend on the internet 100% to carry on our forex business then as you said we should try to get the faster and the most stable and reliable internet connection we can get our hands on because this is a very vital and critical matter for a currency trader,if internet stops all your business stops.

  * > I think slow internet connection is the main cause of such problems. I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow. Specially at the pick hour in country this types of slow connection are found here. When internet connection becomes faster after a while then the problem is solved. so I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow , so same here that you have a slow or bad internet connection which is delaying your orders from communication quickly with the server so must try to get a better internet connection now.

  * > Yes i also faced that kind of problems many times,i do not know too much about that,but it's true that in my country internet connection speed never remains same,that basically cause more problems to our trading software because good internet speed is best for trading platform to do good trading..

  * > Yes i also faced that kind of problems many times,i do not know too much about that,but it's true that in my country internet connection speed never remains same,that basically cause more problems to our trading software because good internet speed is best for trading platform to do good trading..
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> Dear sir, kindly take some time to see the various reason that cause our trading platform laggy in the previous page in this thread. Some of traders here said that it is because of bad internet connection and some said that the problem is in the trading platform but not MT4 provided by RoboForex but other brokers. If the problem is the connection, then we can check our modem or wifi to find if there any error that may occur sometime.

  * > I think you mean lag not laggy but if you mean it I think because when you make the order is it loss or profit you have a delay with the connection to real market and you have to take few time but you can solve this if you make stop loss or take a profit and it is more effective for you

  * > Do not think that it is the fault of the mt4 trading platform, it might be the fault of the broker that you are using or the internet service that you are using personally. As i have being using the mt4 trdaing platform for over 9 years now, and it has been the best that i have ever used. But there are some slight difference among brokers, but that is not the fault of the trading platform.

  * > I think slow internet connection is the main cause of such problems. I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow. Specially at the pick hour in country this types of slow connection are found here. When internet connection becomes faster after a while then the problem is solved. so I also faced same problem when my internet connection goes slow , so same here that you have a slow or bad internet connection which is delaying your orders from communication quickly with the server so must try to get a better internet connection now.

  * > well, i don't face this kind of problem in my meta trader. i don't know how and why you are getting this kind of problem. you might have a slow internet connection or may be the market was so volatile that the server gets busy or stuck. this problem is common for 1 or 2 times but you will not going to face this is problem frequently.

  * > well, i don't face this kind of problem in my meta trader. i don't know how and why you are getting this kind of problem. you might have a slow internet connection or may be the market was so volatile that the server gets busy or stuck. this problem is common for 1 or 2 times but you will not going to face this is problem frequently.
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> Some may trade without lagging with their trading platform but some others face it. Maybe you have good internet connection or you have well-protected laptop from virus so that your trading platform not laggy and face such common problem. Though the platform laggy but I never get mine disconnected. Maybe there is a problem with the connection but the price keep moving even slow.

  * > I think it's not only happen when you want to close the order with profit but usually it will occurs for all of your trading activity. If it really happen to you then just reinstall your mt4 trading platform and it will solve this problem. Sometime I also reinstall my trading platform for each 2-3 months.

  * > I think it's not only happen when you want to close the order with profit but usually it will occurs for all of your trading activity. If it really happen to you then just reinstall your mt4 trading platform and it will solve this problem. Sometime I also reinstall my trading platform for each 2-3 months.
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> if the delay only occurs when you want to close an order then maybe you tried to close the order during a very volatile and busy market time,during such a time the price goes ups and downs so fast that you the broker can not execute your order at the same price you orders so reqoutes and delay occur.

  * > I think it's not only happen when you want to close the order with profit but usually it will occurs for all of your trading activity. If it really happen to you then just reinstall your mt4 trading platform and it will solve this problem. Sometime I also reinstall my trading platform for each 2-3 months.
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> I think we don't have to uninstall and re-install our trading platform if we experienced such problem like this one. The problem is in our internet connection or market's movement. When we want to cut or close our position in volatile market, the price will move unstable and fast. This what makes us feel laggy and this is not about our trading platform. If this not work, try to refresh the server by re-scan it.

  * > What do you mean by cut profit. I think you want to so about close option. I think mt4 have some serious problem as their interface is friendly but it lag too much and most of the time lose the connection. It take a lot of time to login to your trading account and also have some little option on chart drawing. You can use mt5 for better performance which have better speed and options. Thanks...

  * > its not true, mt4 is not a that big software that can slow your entire computer. i think If you use basic MT4 with minimum indicator, that will be fine. But for them who love to use too much indicator, it will surely impact on their computer performance.my laptop becomes slow but i was thinking it is just my laptop. i think with mt4 software is there have no probmlem

  * > How many charts do you have open, and more importantly, what indicators do you have on the chart and how many of them do you have, When you have certain memory and CPU intensive indicators it can really slow down your computer, bringing it to a halt, no matter how fast your computer is. Therefore, only have essential charts and indicators open in Metatrader as Metatrader seems to use excessive computer resources.

  * > How many charts do you have open, and more importantly, what indicators do you have on the chart and how many of them do you have, When you have certain memory and CPU intensive indicators it can really slow down your computer, bringing it to a halt, no matter how fast your computer is. Therefore, only have essential charts and indicators open in Metatrader as Metatrader seems to use excessive computer resources.
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> I agree with you sir. I think the reason why our computer or laptop become so laggy because we use multiple indicators at one chart. This will slow down our laptop/PC performance since a lot of indicators use more CPU usage. If we still want to use multiple indicators, we better close other opened programs and applications that may reduce the performance such as our internet browser.

  * > I agree with you sir. I think the reason why our computer or laptop become so laggy because we use multiple indicators at one chart. This will slow down our laptop/PC performance since a lot of indicators use more CPU usage. If we still want to use multiple indicators, we better close other opened programs and applications that may reduce the performance such as our internet browser.
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> Yes you are right that's the main reason you mentioned of lagging mt4 platform,because i got experience of this yesterday when i add 5-7 indicators on my charts and after adding,when i try to open it,it looks too much heavy and move slowly ,i do not understand at that time,but now i know the reason for this,that's why i remove indicators on my charts and then it become light again..

  * > I agree with you sir. I think the reason why our computer or laptop become so laggy because we use multiple indicators at one chart. This will slow down our laptop/PC performance since a lot of indicators use more CPU usage. If we still want to use multiple indicators, we better close other opened programs and applications that may reduce the performance such as our internet browser.
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> Yeah using a lot of indicators at the same time can make your mt4 become so laggy however there is a few factors which make your mt4 become too slow, for an example if you opening too many chart, it can make your trading platform laggy too. Also usually I disable the news in mt4 since I don't read it and it can make my computer slow too.

  * > that happened to me too but just after I updated the terminal and then when I have to close the order I click on the x button and it always late the best way to close an order is by using a take profit level as it never lagging at least with me or you can use a script and it works good with me too.

  * > It did not depend on meta trader, Trading operations most of depend on the broker, your system and your internet connection also matter in this. But speed of execution really matter with your broker when you are using a good system and internet connection. With some of broker it's really fast and some are slow in it.  
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>  Before selecting any broker you need to make your own research for that and always consider execution speed because it really matter in volatile market.

  * > I don't think so bro, maybe your internet connections is in low speed so the metatrader become slow too and most of time lost connection. In this matter, you need to change internet connection with the better speed or re-install the MT4 terminal on your computer/laptop.

  * > well this could be cause my several things , one of which is your own internet connection ...its fastness when it comes to connectivity and also its ability to carry heavy loads like the live streaming of the meta trader 4 as well as the market volatility at the time of the trade closure initiation and then te type of forex broker that you are using .

  * > When we're closing order indeed usually MT4 will be slower because we were giving orders that need to be executed by the server, so the server will accept command orders we make from trading so dense that affect the performance of MT4. Actually it is not happen when we close the profit only, but it often happens when we open and close orders.

  * > Yes you are right that's the main reason you mentioned of lagging mt4 platform,because i got experience of this yesterday when i add 5-7 indicators on my charts and after adding,when i try to open it,it looks too much heavy and move slowly ,i do not understand at that time,but now i know the reason for this,that's why i remove indicators on my charts and then it become light again..
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> Yes, same like you too sir, at first I didn't know why my platform became so laggy time after time. Then I remove my indicators one by one and the problem solved, my MT4 response faster than before. And I think, using a lot of indicators in one chart will not increase our trading skills but only make us confuse.  
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> Yeah using a lot of indicators at the same time can make your mt4 become so laggy however there is a few factors which make your mt4 become too slow, for an example if you opening too many chart, it can make your trading platform laggy too. Also usually I disable the news in mt4 since I don't read it and it can make my computer slow too.
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> This will also help us to increase our MT4 performance and not become laggy. We can disable some tools in our MT4 that we don't really use so our trading platform will work faster than before. I agree about your statement that opening too many chart also make our MT4 laggy. More charts opened, more connection needed, and more laggy it would be.

  * > MT4 platform is working like another trading platform i have seen. It may be the market condition that is making the analysis of the trader to be like this. The market is not waiting for any trader. This is the reason why you can not get money with the same position that you have cut the order. It is not the fault of mt4 since market is moving.

  * > Maybe that was just you feeling, in my place is not such as that. Many factors can lead to mt4 you use become lag. The first because the computer you use less of RAM, and other internet connections. You feel lag when you close all orders simultaneously, this can lead to lag. Because obviously, the broker server is also in a state of busy.