MetaTrader 4 (MT4) — Ghana

Measured order execution — Standard

How orders actually filled when real market orders were placed on Exness’s MT5 feed — fill time, slippage and rejects by order size:

Small sample (a few round-trips per size); indicative. The same pricing engine feeds every platform the broker offers.

MetaTrader 4 (MT4) at Exness

• Every installation lives in its own folder, and everything a copy remembers — profiles, templates, chart layouts, saved indicators — is stored inside that folder rather than in one shared place.
• Two or more copies can be open at once; neither reads the other's settings, and closing one leaves the others exactly as they were.
• A copy is tied to no account until one is logged into it, so a second copy can hold a different account while the first stays where it is.
• The window title carries the account number and the server name, which is what separates two copies that otherwise look identical on screen.
• A shortcut points at a folder rather than at a program, so renaming the shortcut is enough to label a copy by the job it does.
• A second copy is simply a second install into a different destination folder — choosing a new destination does not overwrite the copy already there.
• Nothing crosses between copies on its own: an indicator or template placed in one is not visible in another until it is placed there as well.
• The taskbar shows one entry per running copy, so the number of entries is the honest count of how many are actually open.

How many copies of each can sit on one machine

The desktop terminals are the ones that can be multiplied on a single machine; the browser and the phone hold one session each. All of them read the same account.

Why a second copy is a second folder, not a second program

The reason several installations can coexist is that the terminal treats its own folder as the whole of its memory. Chart layouts, saved templates, profiles and anything added by hand are written inside that folder, so a copy installed somewhere else starts empty and stays independent no matter what happens to the first one.

This is also why pointing a new installation at the destination already in use produces one copy rather than two: the second install lands on top of the first and inherits everything it had. Two copies exist only when two destinations were chosen.

Reasons to keep more than one

The common reason is that one set of settings does not fit two ways of working. A copy arranged for watching a handful of instruments on long charts is a poor place to also keep a dense working layout, and rearranging it every time costs more than keeping a second copy that is already arranged.

The other common reason is accounts. A copy holds one logged-in account at a time, so looking at two accounts at once means two copies open at once. Neither copy needs to know the other exists, and neither is disturbed when the other is closed.

Telling them apart once both are open

On screen the copies are identical, which is the one real cost of running several. Three things separate them in practice: the window title, which carries the account number and the server it is connected to; the shortcut, which can be renamed to whatever the copy is for; and the folder name itself, which is what the shortcut actually points at.

Naming the folders before anything else is the habit that pays here. A copy named for its purpose is recognisable in the launch list a month later, while a copy left with a numbered default name has to be opened to be identified.

Putting a second copy beside the first

1. Decide what the second copy is for before installing it — a different account, or a different working layout. The answer becomes the folder name.
2. Run the installer again and change the destination folder; leaving the destination alone updates the copy already there instead of adding one.
3. Name the folder for its purpose rather than accepting a numbered default, because that name is what every shortcut will point at.
4. Rename the shortcut to match, so the launch list reads as a list of jobs rather than a list of identical entries.
5. Open both copies once, side by side, and check the window titles: the account number and server shown there are what will identify each copy from then on.

Settings arranged in one copy are not inherited by the other — anything wanted in both has to be placed in both.

What a second copy shares with the first

Anything in the first group has to be set up again in each copy; anything in the second is the same wherever it is read.

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