"clear" script

The efficiency of a trader directly depends on the functionality of the trading platform through which the trading process is carried out.

Of course, the abundance of various tools such as indicators and the like are important, but no less important is the performance of the program, which, unfortunately, rapidly drops if you use it for a long time.

Many traders constantly see the broker as an enemy, blaming him for the fact that it is because of his interference that the platform simply begins to slow down.

Such complaints become especially relevant if the speed of order execution is very important to your trading strategy, for example, if you are using a scalping or pipsing strategy.

The long opening of the transaction window, glitching and braking is by no means a scam of the broker, but a natural glitch of your program, which is literally overloaded with various files.

Reasons for braking

As strange as it may sound, the cause of terminal slowdown is the result of our constant work with it. In it, like in any browser, various history is saved, for example, constantly downloaded historical quotes for testing advisors, constant use of various alerts and manipulations with indicators that leave messages in the log and much more, which leads to the accumulation of information in logs and history.

Thus, as a result of our constant interaction, the program begins to become clogged with unnecessary garbage, which over time simply begins to interfere with trading. Of course, we don’t see this visually, but it has a great impact on the functionality and performance of the program.

How to solve a braking problem

Solving the problem with the MT4 trading terminal slowing down is very simple; there is a very useful “clear” script for this. What do we do with unnecessary garbage in life? Well, of course we throw it away. The clear script allows us to clear all unnecessary garbage with just a simple click of the mouse, since after its activation it will immediately delete all clogging files.

However, in order for it to do this, it must be installed. The installation process is practically no different from installing experts or indicators. To do this, you need to place the file downloaded at the end of the article in the root folder of the trading terminal.

To do this, go to the file menu and through the data directory of your terminal, place the file in the root folder. Next, double-click on the file and voila, all unnecessary files will disappear.

How to avoid clogging your MT4 trading terminal

To a large extent, clogging occurs due to constant testing of various advisors or strategies in the strategy tester. In order to carry out the tests we are interested in, we constantly load the history of quotes and overload the trading platform with various optimizations and work related to historical data.

Thus, in order to avoid problems in the future on a real account, I recommend downloading and installing a separate trading terminal for such purposes. Many traders who regularly carry out such tests have long come to this conclusion and use a separate terminal, so I recommend doing the same.

Remember, when you activate this script on your main trading terminal, all historical files will be erased. Therefore, if you spent hours downloading the history for testing advisors , I recommend saving it in a separate folder, since after activation you may be faced with the same torment.