Another alternative is to wait the for raspberry pi to come out. $35 computer (version B with networking) and needs something like 3 watts.

Lets discuss Making a homemade "VPS"

Not sure of the prices in the UK, but thin clients can be bought on Ebay for <$150. As for netbooks, they are questionable at best. I never liked using them.

Lets discuss Making a homemade "VPS"

that's not really difficult per-se. If both EAs are connected to the broker, it's expected they'll send the orders to the broker at the same time. You'd just need to give the backup EA a slight delay in sending the order to the broker, checking for ...

Run EA at different VPS?

I should note that I have my own little private datacenter (closet). I would do this at the router level, not at the computer level. Look for network loadbalancers. I have MT4 using a heartbeat to a monitoring server. Simply put, if the monitoring ...

Lets discuss Making a homemade "VPS"

Kudos to martypatty for taking the time to figure it out!

Generic EAs

I put MT4 as being around another 2-5 yrs. MT5 is starting to look more like Vista did to XP.

Future EAs Code Language?

One goes farther than the other...

How do you distinguish a retracement from a trend reversal?

Perhaps it's time to start looking at your EA itself. Because that's about as fast--hardware wise--that you can go. Frankly, I'm just fine with my Dell T110 server (Intel Xeon x3440 W/16GB RAM). Any iCustom indicator calls that are made? Any looping ...

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

Translates to 'makes me cynical'. That was in response to stevegee58 MT5 was built for brokers. Simple as that. Traders are secondary and understandably enough--they're not paying for the platform. If you don't like it, build your own. I did. Took ...

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

I suppose trading through two financial crises on different continents, dealing with a fund blowing up, and getting on that road to recovering capital that someone else lost gets to you. xD

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

See, this is where you are misguided. You are not the customer of Metatrader. Metatrader sells their platform to the broker, so they align themselves with the broker's interests.

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

You weren't really clear about this in your PM, but are you running a backtest? or an optimization? MT4's optimizer is a brute-force backtester. It just runs the backtest once for every permutation, so optimization time = backtest time * # ...

MT4 Strategy Tester Computer Hardware Bottleneck

Time[highest_bar + x]

MQ4 - How to draw vline x to right of highest bar

static datetime LastBuySignal; if(iBarShift(NULL, 0, LastBuySignal, False) > 0) { //Send new buy signal LastBuySignal = TimeCurrent(); }

Adding Manual Confirm to Expert Advisor

Limit the EA to send a buy/sell signal once per bar.

Adding Manual Confirm to Expert Advisor

I kinda like that lapdesk.

Show us your workstation!

Maybe I should reiterate. I can program in MQL. That said, what are you looking to get done?

Recommend a EA Programming Service

Page doesnt exist... What are you trying to get done?

Recommend a EA Programming Service

Amazon S3 Rackspace

What is the Best Dedicated Server for Hosting EA?

You would need to get them to communicate with each other.

Set EA Priority