What traffic does MT4 take?
Web-traffic size that MT4 takes is formed of several factors:
1. The number of received ticks. Every tick takes 14 bytes of information. A great number of ticks received at the same time can be squeezed and thereby take smaller web-traffic size. Above all ticks are packed in TCP package which takes about 128 bytes. The more ticks? intensity is the less odd packages you need, and this also reduces the web-traffic size. Thus the more financial instruments you keep in the Market Watch window and the more traffic size is in each financial instrument the more traffic is taken. But the traffic doesn?t grow in direct ratio to the instruments? intensity but runs a level by traffic squashing.
2. The volume of uploaded data in open instruments or in time frames. Once the chart is open or time frame is changed History data is automatically uploaded from the moment of the previous data session and it takes 44 bytes for each uploaded bar.
3. News data feed.
4. History requests, 224 bytes for each record.
5. Trading requests.
6. Inside information (crash logs).
Basic rule: If you want to reduce traffic consumption first of all you should close all unnecessary charts and delete all unused financial instruments from Market Watch window.
