"clear" script

A trader's efficiency directly depends on the functionality of the trading platform through which the trading process is conducted.

While a wealth of different tools like indicators and the like are certainly important, the program's performance remains equally important, and unfortunately, it rapidly declines with prolonged use.

Many traders constantly view their broker as an enemy, blaming them for their interference when the platform starts to slow down.

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

A long opening time for the trading window, glitches, and slowdowns are not a broker's ploy, but a natural glitch in your program, which is literally overloaded with various files.

Reasons for braking

As strange as it may sound, the reason for the terminal's slowdown is the result of our constant use of it. Like any browser, it stores various history data, such as constantly downloading historical quotes for expert advisor testing, constantly using various alerts and manipulating indicators that leave messages in the log, and much more, all of which leads to the accumulation of information in the logs and history.

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

How to solve the braking problem

Solving the MT4 trading terminal's slowdown is very simple; there's a very useful "clear" script for this. What do we do with unnecessary junk in our lives? Well, we throw it away, of course. The clear script allows you to clear out all unnecessary junk with just a click of the mouse, as once activated, it instantly deletes all clogging files.

However, for it to do this, it needs to be installed. The installation process is virtually 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, using your terminal's data directory, place the file in the root folder. Then, double-click the file, and voila, all unnecessary files will disappear.

How to avoid clogging your MT4 trading terminal

Most of the clogging occurs due to constant testing of various advisors or strategies in the strategy tester. To conduct the tests we need, we constantly download historical quotes and overload the trading platform with various optimizations and work related to historical data.

Therefore, to avoid future problems on a live account, I recommend downloading and installing a separate trading terminal for this purpose. Many traders who regularly conduct such tests have long since come to this conclusion and use a separate terminal, so I recommend doing the same.

Please note that activating this script on your main trading terminal will erase all historical files. Therefore, if you spent hours downloading history for testing advisors , I recommend saving it to a separate folder, as you may experience the same pain after activation.