Forex Latency - Lesson 5

Ever wonder why your forex broker takes so long to accept your order? Not getting the best fills in your trades? Re-quotes or Off quotes?

The most important factor in getting the best execution available is how fast your brokers Metatrader 4 server is. There are many reasons why traders have issues with getting orders executed. If your broker is using a cheap hosting provider who does not provide good bandwidth or is very far from their liquidity provider, this can cause major issues with execution. ThinkForex has partnered with the best hosting providers to provide the fastest execution and connection with our platform. The latency on the ThinkForex platform and Metatrader 4 server is almost next to nothing, less than 2 milliseconds from the server side and on average less than 30ms from the client side.

Latency is a measure of time delay experienced in a system, the precise definition of which depends on the system and the time being measured. Most brokers have high latency and most of the times this is due to their Metatrader 4 server location and internet line. Our technology and infrastructure is one of the best in the industry. This allows our clients to receive low latency trading and the fastest execution available in the forex market.