MetaTrader 5 (MT5) — Tanzania

Measured order execution — Standard

How orders actually filled when real market orders were placed on Exness’s MT5 feed — fill time, slippage and rejects by order size:

Small sample (a few round-trips per size); indicative. The same pricing engine feeds every platform the broker offers.

MetaTrader 5 (MT5) at Exness

• A price written 1,234.56 on one machine and 1.234,56 on another is the same price: the separator follows the region settings of the system.
• The interface language is a terminal setting and applies after a restart; it renames labels and never touches prices, volumes or open orders.
• Columns in Trade and History can be dragged, hidden and re-sorted, so two screenshots of one account can show the same values in a different order.
• Dates in the History tab can be written day-first or month-first depending on the system, while the record underneath is unchanged.
• Sorting a date column that arrived as text sorts it character by character, which puts the wrong month at the top of a report.
• Volume is written in lots with two decimals, so 0.10 is a tenth of a lot rather than ten of anything.
• Profit and swap columns are stated in the currency of the account and the symbol is not repeated in every cell, so a bare column of figures is easy to read as the wrong money.
• An exported statement inherits the same separators: a file that opens in neat columns on one computer collapses into a single column on another.
• In a volume or price box the terminal expects the separator the system uses, and typing the other one is a common reason a value is refused.

Which Exness platform should you use?

Exness offers several platforms — choose by pricing model, what you trade and your device. All connect to the same account.

Where a report gets read wrong

The place it happens most often is a history export opened in a spreadsheet. If the file was written with one decimal separator and the spreadsheet expects the other, the figures arrive as text: they line up against the left edge of the cell, they are skipped by a sum, and a total typed underneath them quietly comes out as zero while every value is plainly visible.

The second place is sorting. A date column that arrived as text is ordered character by character, so an ordering that looks chronological can group every line that begins with the same digit. Setting the type of the column before sorting fixes it; exporting the file again does not.

What the terminal takes from the machine and what it does not

From the system come the number formatting, the written form of dates and the default font size. From the terminal itself come the interface language, the visible columns and their order, and the number of decimals drawn on a chart. From the broker come the price, the volume and the record of what was executed, and none of the settings above can move those.

The division is worth holding on to before writing to support. A question about how a figure is written belongs to the machine; a question about what the figure is belongs to the account, and only the second one is worth a ticket.

Two people, one account, two screens

When two people look at one account on two computers and read different things, the difference is almost always in the view: a hidden column on one side, a different label language on the other, one machine writing a comma where the other writes a dot. Comparing the exported file instead of the screen removes the ambiguity in a single step.

The same applies to a screenshot sent to someone else. A screenshot carries the settings of whoever took it, so a figure that is obvious to the sender can be unreadable to the reader without a single value being wrong.

Setting the terminal to match the report you need

1. Decide which format the report has to be readable in before exporting anything: the choice is easier to make once than to undo in a spreadsheet.
2. Set the region of the system first, because the number and date formatting is read from it when the terminal starts.
3. Restart the terminal after changing the language or the region, otherwise the labels and the formatting disagree with each other.
4. Arrange the columns in Trade and History in the order the report is read in, then hide the ones that are never used.
5. Export once and open the file on a quiet day, so a separator problem shows up before the report is actually needed.

None of these steps touch the account or the orders. They change only how the same records are written out.

Same record, two machines

The first four rows differ from computer to computer. The last one does not.

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