WARNING: This test EA will open positions with market order. During testing will generate losses. The losses could be substantial when during testing the volatility suddenly increase. Therefore use it carefully and for your own responsibility. Recommended to use the test during low volatile, calm market period and by an expert trader.   

On the retail currency market, the majority of the overall latency is usually the execution latency. The “Broker Latency Tester with Market Order v3” will send the market order and calculate the time between sending the order and receiving the confirmation. After confirmation the LONG position will be closed. This market open and close circle will be repeated 25 times and the EA will calculate the average of the last 20 results. The calculation will start after the first five circles. The position size has been set for the minimum lot size (MODE_MINLOT).

In the picture below we have tested LMAX Exchange with MT4. LMAX Exchange executing aggressive orders 99.88 % time at less than 5 ms. Connectivity (cross connect) is extremely fast. The 0.21ms at the bottom right corner is actually the MT4 Server response time for the ping message. Our router latency and the distance latency is on a microsecond level (not even measurable with these tools). Overall the measured 43 ms on average showing the MT4 infrastructure (MT4 gateway, MT4 server, bridge) latency.

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