[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":860},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps":3,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps-related":224},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":209,"date":210,"description":211,"draft":212,"extension":213,"meta":214,"navigation":212,"path":215,"related":216,"seo":220,"stem":221,"term":222,"updated":210,"__hash__":223},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps.md","What Is a VPS in Trading? Why Uptime Decides Results",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":201},"minimark",[9,19,24,27,38,41,44,52,56,64,67,71,87,90,94,140,154,162,166,194],[10,11,12,13,18],"p",{},"A VPS, or virtual private server, is a slice of a physical machine in a datacentre that you rent and use like a remote computer. In trading it has one job: run your ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-metatrader","MetaTrader"," terminal continuously, on a connection that does not drop, in a building close to your broker's trade server. For an automated strategy it is not an optimisation — it is the environment the strategy actually lives in.",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"how-it-works","How it works",[10,25,26],{},"You connect to the VPS over remote desktop, install the terminal there, log in and leave it running. Your own laptop can then be closed, updated or thrown away without the strategy noticing. The two things you are buying are uptime and physical proximity to the trade server, and the second one is measurable as round-trip latency.",[28,29,34],"pre",{"className":30,"code":32,"language":33},[31],"language-text","Ping = terminal → trade server → terminal, round trip\n","text",[35,36,32],"code",{"__ignoreMap":37},"",[10,39,40],{},"There is no official threshold for a good number, and the one that matters is relative: the same figure that is unremarkable for a strategy holding positions for days is disqualifying for one working the spread. What is not arguable is the direction — as the round trip grows, fills arrive further from the price the strategy asked for.",[10,42,43],{},"What happens when the terminal goes down mid-position is the part people get wrong. In MetaTrader, a stop loss or take profit attached to an open position is held by the broker's server, so it still triggers with the terminal off. Everything else is client-side and stops dead: new entries, trailing stops, partial closes, break-even moves, virtual stops the Expert Advisor keeps in memory, grid and recovery logic. A martingale system that loses its terminal halfway through a sequence does not pause — it holds an unmanaged basket until the terminal comes back, and the position it would have opened to balance the book never exists.",[10,45,46,47,51],{},"Latency and packet loss matter for a separate reason: they widen the gap between the price your EA decided on and the price it received. That gap is ",[14,48,50],{"href":49},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-slippage","slippage",", and no amount of strategy tuning trades around it.",[20,53,55],{"id":54},"why-it-matters","Why it matters",[10,57,58,59,63],{},"An automated strategy's live result is the strategy plus its execution environment. Two accounts running identical code on different machines produce different curves, and the difference belongs to ping, uptime and fill quality rather than to logic. This is one of the reasons ",[14,60,62],{"href":61},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-backtesting","backtest"," results overstate live performance: a backtest never disconnects, never misses a bar, and always fills at the modelled price.",[10,65,66],{},"It also matters for anyone reading someone else's record. A track record produced on a 40 ms VPS is not reproducible on a home laptop with 300 ms ping and nightly Windows updates, even with the same EA and the same broker.",[20,68,70],{"id":69},"what-the-data-shows","What the data shows",[10,72,73,74,78,79,82,83,86],{},"Automation is the norm on our platform, not the exception. Across the public accounts on ShowMyTrades with trading history (August 2026), the ",[75,76,77],"strong",{},"median autotrading share is 99%",", and ",[75,80,81],{},"53.9% of accounts are more than 90% automated",". The distribution is barbell-shaped: another ",[75,84,85],{},"42.2% are under 10% automated",", with very little in between. Traders are either fully hands-off or fully manual.",[10,88,89],{},"More than half of the accounts publishing results here therefore depend on a terminal that has to stay up, connected, and permitted to trade — across 703 distinct broker servers and 15,436,464 synchronised trades.",[20,91,93],{"id":92},"where-you-see-it-on-showmytrades","Where you see it on ShowMyTrades",[10,95,96,97,100,101,107,108,111,112,115,116,119,120,123,124,127,128,115,132,135,136,139],{},"The ",[75,98,99],{},"Terminal & Open Charts"," module on the account page reports the live state of the machine the strategy runs on: ",[14,102,104],{"href":103},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-terminal-ping",[75,105,106],{},"Ping"," to the trade server, ",[75,109,110],{},"Retransmission"," (the share of network packets that had to be sent again), ",[75,113,114],{},"Terminal build",", ",[75,117,118],{},"Memory"," of the host machine, and whether ",[75,121,122],{},"Auto trading"," and ",[75,125,126],{},"DLL imports"," are allowed. A connection badge reads ",[129,130,131],"em",{},"Connected",[129,133,134],{},"No trade server"," or ",[129,137,138],{},"Offline",", next to how long ago the terminal last reported, and the header counts how many of your terminals are online.",[10,141,142,143,149,150,153],{},"Below it, the open charts table lists each chart with its symbol, timeframe, ",[14,144,146],{"href":145},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-expert-advisor",[75,147,148],{},"Expert Advisor"," and indicators — so you can see what is actually loaded, not what is claimed. In the account header, a badge shows the automation split read from the trades themselves, for example ",[129,151,152],{},"99% autotrading",".",[10,155,156,157,161],{},"This is also what a ",[14,158,160],{"href":159},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","verified track record"," looks like when it is honest about its own conditions: the numbers and the environment that produced them, on the same page.",[20,163,165],{"id":164},"common-misunderstandings","Common misunderstandings",[167,168,169,176,182,188],"ul",{},[170,171,172,175],"li",{},[75,173,174],{},"A VPS does not make a strategy profitable."," It removes missed executions and downtime. If the edge is not there, a faster machine loses money more reliably.",[170,177,178,181],{},[75,179,180],{},"Ping to a website is not ping to the trade server."," The number that matters is the round trip to your broker's server, which is what the terminal reports — a VPS in the wrong city can be slower than your desk.",[170,183,184,187],{},[75,185,186],{},"Low latency does not eliminate slippage."," Spread, liquidity and the broker's execution model still apply. A VPS removes your share of the delay, not theirs.",[170,189,190,193],{},[75,191,192],{},"\"My PC never crashes\" is not the claim being made."," Windows updates, sleep settings, ISP outages and power cuts all disconnect a terminal, and each one happens at a random moment relative to your open positions.",[10,195,196,197,153],{},"To read the rest of an account page with the same scepticism: ",[14,198,200],{"href":199},"\u002Fguides\u002Freading-a-trading-account-dashboard","how to read a trading account dashboard",{"title":37,"searchDepth":202,"depth":202,"links":203},2,[204,205,206,207,208],{"id":22,"depth":202,"text":23},{"id":54,"depth":202,"text":55},{"id":69,"depth":202,"text":70},{"id":92,"depth":202,"text":93},{"id":164,"depth":202,"text":165},"Platforms","2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z","A VPS is an always-on rented server that keeps your trading terminal running and connected when your own computer sleeps, reboots or loses its connection.",true,"md",{},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps",[217,218,219],"what-is-a-verified-track-record","what-is-slippage","what-is-backtesting",{"title":5,"description":211},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps","VPS","I4TIf563St5m6tF3Pb_5h1pPDQHp1v7OdG4YiQx2XLQ",[225,417,644],{"id":226,"title":227,"body":228,"category":405,"date":210,"description":406,"draft":407,"extension":213,"meta":408,"navigation":212,"path":159,"related":409,"seo":413,"stem":414,"term":415,"updated":210,"__hash__":416},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record.md","What Is a Verified Track Record? Definition and Checks",{"type":7,"value":229,"toc":398},[230,233,235,257,263,266,273,278,280,293,296,298,308,324,326,347,358,360,391],[10,231,232],{},"A verified track record is a record of trading results that arrives directly from the broker through a read-only connection, continuously, with no step in the chain where the publisher can edit, delete or re-order anything. It is the difference between a claim and evidence. Two separate questions hide inside the phrase, and most arguments about verification come from confusing them.",[20,234,23],{"id":22},[10,236,237,238,115,242,246,247,251,252,256],{},"The first question is whether the data is real. That is answered by the connection itself: a channel that can read the account but never write to it, running without interruption, so the record is built continuously rather than exported at a convenient moment. On ShowMyTrades that channel is one of four — an Expert Advisor installed in MetaTrader 4 or 5, a direct connection using the ",[14,239,241],{"href":240},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password","MT4 investor password",[14,243,245],{"href":244},"\u002Fctrader-account-tracking","cTrader OAuth2 authorisation",", or the ",[14,248,250],{"href":249},"\u002Ftradelocker-tracking","TradeLocker REST API",". None of them can place, modify or close an order. Read-only credentials are the industry mechanism for this, and third-party trackers such as ",[14,253,255],{"href":254},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","Myfxbook"," connect MetaTrader accounts the same way.",[28,258,261],{"className":259,"code":260,"language":33},[31],"broker server → read-only connection → ShowMyTrades → public page\n                no editable step anywhere in the chain\n",[35,262,260],{"__ignoreMap":37},[10,264,265],{},"The second question is whether the person publishing the page owns the account. A read-only feed proves the trades exist; it does not prove whose they are, because an investor password can be handed to anyone. Closing that gap requires an action only someone with trading rights can perform: placing a pending order at an unreachable price with the publisher's user ID in the comment field. On cTrader, one OAuth authorisation answers both questions at once.",[10,267,268],{},[269,270],"img",{"alt":271,"src":272},"Track Record Verified answers whether the data arrived from the broker through a channel that cannot place, modify or close an order; Trading Privileges Verified answers whether the publisher controls the account","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Ftwo-badges.svg",[10,274,275],{},[129,276,277],{},"A record can pass one and fail the other, which is why they are counted separately.",[20,279,55],{"id":54},[10,281,282,283,287,288,292],{},"Everything downstream of the connection is arithmetic. If the inputs can be edited, the profit factor, the ",[14,284,286],{"href":285},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown","drawdown"," and the ",[14,289,291],{"href":290},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-equity-curve","equity curve"," are all decoration, no matter how detailed the page looks. A screenshot, a PDF statement and a spreadsheet share the same defect: they are produced by the person asking you to trust them.",[10,294,295],{},"Continuity matters as much as read-only access. A record that can be paused and resumed lets a bad month disappear. When the feed is continuous, an interruption is itself visible on the page — which is information, not an absence of it.",[20,297,70],{"id":69},[10,299,300,301,123,304,307],{},"Verification is opt-in and requires effort, and the numbers reflect that. Across the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades (August 2026), only ",[75,302,303],{},"65 carry Track Record Verified",[75,305,306],{},"264 carry Trading Privileges Verified",". More accounts prove ownership than prove data provenance, because placing one pending order is easier than changing a password at the broker.",[10,309,310,311,315,316,319,320,323],{},"Verified does not mean good. Across the public accounts with trading history, median ",[14,312,314],{"href":313},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-time-weighted-return","time-weighted return"," is ",[75,317,318],{},"+3.2%",", 63.0% are positive, and the median deepest drawdown is ",[75,321,322],{},"9.7%"," — with 17.6% of accounts having lost more than half their peak value at some point. That distribution, built from 15,436,464 synchronised trades, is what an honest record looks like, and it is nothing like the ones used in advertising.",[20,325,93],{"id":92},[10,327,328,329,332,333,123,336,339,340,135,343,346],{},"Both badges sit in the ",[75,330,331],{},"Certifications"," group in the header of every account page, above the numbers: ",[75,334,335],{},"Track Record",[75,337,338],{},"Trading Privileges",", green when granted and grey when not, each with a tooltip explaining what it certifies for that platform. The same group also shows ",[75,341,342],{},"Real Account",[75,344,345],{},"Demo Account",", derived from the broker server rather than self-declared.",[10,348,349,350,353,354,357],{},"Verification is managed in the account settings, where the ",[75,351,352],{},"Investor Password (Optional)"," field lives — clear it and the Track Record badge turns grey on the same save. Both badges are also rendered inside the ",[75,355,356],{},"Complete Dashboard"," widget, which embeds the account header, so an embed on someone else's site carries its own provenance.",[20,359,165],{"id":164},[167,361,362,373,379,385],{},[170,363,364,367,368,372],{},[75,365,366],{},"A link to a tracking site is not verification."," ",[14,369,371],{"href":370},"\u002Fguides\u002Fthird-party-verification-explained","Any platform can host an unverified account",". Look for the badge on the page, not for the domain in the URL.",[170,374,375,378],{},[75,376,377],{},"Track Record Verified does not prove ownership."," It proves the trades are real. Someone reselling another trader's investor password can produce a genuine feed of trades that are not theirs.",[170,380,381,384],{},[75,382,383],{},"Verified is not the same as profitable."," The badge certifies provenance and nothing else. Read gain and drawdown together afterwards.",[170,386,387,390],{},[75,388,389],{},"A verified demo account is still a demo account."," Demo fills are optimistic in exactly the conditions where live fills hurt.",[10,392,393,394,153],{},"The procedure for both badges, step by step: ",[14,395,397],{"href":396},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-verify-your-account","how to verify your trading account",{"title":37,"searchDepth":202,"depth":202,"links":399},[400,401,402,403,404],{"id":22,"depth":202,"text":23},{"id":54,"depth":202,"text":55},{"id":69,"depth":202,"text":70},{"id":92,"depth":202,"text":93},{"id":164,"depth":202,"text":165},"Verification","A verified track record is performance data pulled straight from the broker through a read-only link, continuously, with nothing the publisher can edit.",false,{},[410,411,412],"what-is-an-mt4-investor-password","what-is-myfxbook","what-is-drawdown",{"title":227,"description":406},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","Verified Track Record","im3JV0qh8wz_ZbgStl23aUhUUL79OEa_VDXyYyMF254",{"id":418,"title":419,"body":420,"category":635,"date":210,"description":636,"draft":407,"extension":213,"meta":637,"navigation":212,"path":61,"related":638,"seo":640,"stem":641,"term":642,"updated":210,"__hash__":643},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-backtesting.md","What Is Backtesting? Definition, Limits and Live Data",{"type":7,"value":421,"toc":628},[422,425,427,430,436,439,468,476,478,481,484,486,497,520,531,537,542,544,552,579,589,591,621],[10,423,424],{},"Backtesting is the simulation of a trading strategy against historical price data to estimate how it would have performed. It produces an equity curve, a profit factor and a drawdown figure without a single order ever reaching a broker. Those outputs are a hypothesis about the strategy, not a record of it.",[20,426,23],{"id":22},[10,428,429],{},"The tester replays historical bars or ticks, applies the strategy's entry and exit rules to each one, and records a simulated fill. Everything that separates the simulation from reality lives in the cost and fill model:",[28,431,434],{"className":432,"code":433,"language":33},[31],"Net result per trade = Gross P&L − spread − commission − swap − slippage\n\nSpread cost  = spread (in price) × contract size × lots\nSwap         = swap rate × lots × nights held\n",[35,435,433],{"__ignoreMap":37},[10,437,438],{},"Three settings decide how honest the output is:",[167,440,441,447,458],{},[170,442,443,446],{},[75,444,445],{},"Modelling quality."," MT4 and MT5 report it as a percentage. \"Every tick\" interpolates from 1-minute bars unless you supply real tick data; \"control points\" and \"open prices only\" are approximations that flatter intrabar strategies badly.",[170,448,449,452,453,457],{},[75,450,451],{},"Spread assumption."," Most testers default to a fixed spread. Live spread widens at the rollover, on news and at the session open — exactly the moments many systems trade. A ",[14,454,456],{"href":455},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-spread","spread"," modelled at 0.8 pips and paid at 4.0 pips is a different strategy.",[170,459,460,463,464,467],{},[75,461,462],{},"Slippage and fill logic."," The tester assumes your order is filled at the requested price. ",[14,465,466],{"href":49},"Slippage",", rejected orders, requotes and partial fills do not exist in it.",[10,469,470,471,475],{},"There is a fourth problem the software does not report: the parameter set itself survived a search. If you ran 400 variants and kept the best one, the result you are reading was selected by hindsight. That is ",[14,472,474],{"href":473},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-curve-fitting","curve fitting",", and it is the single largest gap between tested and live performance.",[20,477,55],{"id":54},[10,479,480],{},"A backtest is the cheapest way to reject a bad idea and the most expensive way to confirm a good one. It can establish that a rule set is mechanically coherent, that it survives a rough cost assumption, and that its drawdown profile is something you could sit through. It cannot establish that the edge exists, because every input it uses is a reconstruction and every parameter it uses was chosen after the data was seen.",[10,482,483],{},"Anyone deciding where to put money should treat a backtest as a screening tool with a veto, never as evidence.",[20,485,70],{"id":69},[10,487,488,489,492,493,496],{},"ShowMyTrades publishes ",[75,490,491],{},"10,000+ accounts"," as public pages, resting on ",[75,494,495],{},"15,436,464 synchronised trades"," (August 2026). Not one of them is simulated: every trade in that count was filled by a broker and read back from it.",[10,498,499,500,503,504,315,508,511,512,315,516,519],{},"That published population is overwhelmingly automated — median autotrading share ",[75,501,502],{},"99%",", with 53.9% of accounts running above 90% automation and 42.2% below 10%. The automated portion consists, in the main, of strategies that were backtested before they were funded. Across the whole published set the median ",[14,505,507],{"href":506},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-profit-factor","profit factor",[75,509,510],{},"1.28"," and the median ",[14,513,515],{"href":514},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-the-sharpe-ratio","Sharpe ratio",[75,517,518],{},"0.05",". Those are the figures the tester reports were competing against.",[10,521,522,523,526,527,530],{},"Costs are the line a simulation most often understates, and here they are billed rather than assumed: ",[75,524,525],{},"$4,782,670"," charged in commission and ",[75,528,529],{},"$862,547"," in swap, with 86.3% of the accounts that carry any swap paying it net negative. A backtest set to zero swap on a strategy that holds positions overnight is not slightly optimistic; it is missing a recurring charge.",[10,532,533],{},[269,534],{"alt":535,"src":536},"Spread, commission and swap as three separate cost lines: $4,782,670 charged in commission and $862,547 in swap across public ShowMyTrades accounts","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fwhere-costs-hide.svg",[10,538,539],{},[129,540,541],{},"A tester with a fixed spread and no swap has left out two of the three.",[20,543,93],{"id":92},[10,545,546,547,551],{},"Nowhere, deliberately. ShowMyTrades does not host backtests, upload simulations or accept a strategy report as a ",[14,548,550],{"href":549},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-track-record","track record",". Every account page is synced read-only from the broker, which is why the numbers above describe executed trades rather than modelled ones.",[10,553,554,555,123,558,561,562,565,566,123,568,570,571,574,575,578],{},"The modules that expose what a backtest hides are: ",[75,556,557],{},"Total Commissions",[75,559,560],{},"Total Swap Paid"," in the Advanced Statistics block, the real cost of the strategy in account currency; the ",[75,563,564],{},"Terminal"," panel, which reports ",[75,567,106],{},[75,569,110],{}," to the trade server, the conditions your fills were actually obtained under; and ",[75,572,573],{},"Trade History & Balance Progression",", whose ",[75,576,577],{},"Closed Trades"," tab lists each executed order at the price it was genuinely filled at rather than the price a tester would have granted it.",[10,580,96,581,584,585,588],{},[75,582,583],{},"Track Record Verified"," badge, held by 65 accounts, and ",[75,586,587],{},"Trading Privileges Verified",", held by 264, mark the records where that broker-to-page chain has been checked rather than asserted.",[20,590,165],{"id":164},[167,592,593,599,609,615],{},[170,594,595,598],{},[75,596,597],{},"\"It used every tick, so it is accurate.\""," Tick modelling improves the price path, not the fill. Your broker's spread, execution and rejections are still absent.",[170,600,601,367,604,608],{},[75,602,603],{},"\"It was tested over ten years.\"",[14,605,607],{"href":606},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-much-history-a-track-record-needs","Length is not independence",". A decade that contained one dominant regime is one observation, not 2,500.",[170,610,611,614],{},[75,612,613],{},"\"Only three parameters were optimised.\""," Three parameters at twenty values each is 8,000 experiments. The winner of 8,000 experiments is partly lucky by construction.",[170,616,617,620],{},[75,618,619],{},"\"The demo forward test confirmed it.\""," Demo servers fill optimistically and never reject. A demo result is a second simulation, not a first live test.",[10,622,623,624,153],{},"Before you trust any performance figure, tested or live, work through ",[14,625,627],{"href":626},"\u002Fguides\u002Fverifying-trading-performance-claims","how to verify trading performance claims",{"title":37,"searchDepth":202,"depth":202,"links":629},[630,631,632,633,634],{"id":22,"depth":202,"text":23},{"id":54,"depth":202,"text":55},{"id":69,"depth":202,"text":70},{"id":92,"depth":202,"text":93},{"id":164,"depth":202,"text":165},"Strategy","Backtesting simulates a trading strategy on historical price data. What it can prove, what it cannot, and why live broker-synced results almost always differ.",{},[639,217,218],"what-is-curve-fitting",{"title":419,"description":636},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-backtesting","Backtesting","he7JKboqSnysaWcJ_U_Uz3xPVvizet9GFQbrgkBSinQ",{"id":645,"title":646,"body":647,"category":850,"date":210,"description":851,"draft":212,"extension":213,"meta":852,"navigation":212,"path":49,"related":853,"seo":857,"stem":858,"term":466,"updated":210,"__hash__":859},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-slippage.md","What Is Slippage? Definition, Causes and Real Data",{"type":7,"value":648,"toc":843},[649,652,654,660,663,669,675,686,693,695,706,712,714,731,742,744,747,808,810,837],[10,650,651],{},"Slippage is the difference between the price you expected when you sent an order and the price at which it was actually filled. It happens because the market moves in the interval between your terminal sending the request and the broker's server matching it. It can run against you or in your favour, but it is not symmetric in practice: the conditions that produce large slippage are the same conditions in which a precise fill matters most.",[20,653,23],{"id":22},[28,655,658],{"className":656,"code":657,"language":33},[31],"Slippage (pips) = (Fill price − Requested price) \u002F Pip size\n                  sign reversed for sell orders\n",[35,659,657],{"__ignoreMap":37},[10,661,662],{},"Three things produce it.",[10,664,665,668],{},[75,666,667],{},"Latency."," Every millisecond between request and execution is time in which the price can change. Latency comes from the network path to the trade server, the terminal's own processing, and the broker's matching queue.",[10,670,671,674],{},[75,672,673],{},"Liquidity."," Your order is filled against the book. If the size available at the quoted price is smaller than your order, the remainder fills at the next level. This is why slippage grows with position size and shrinks with market depth.",[10,676,677,680,681,685],{},[75,678,679],{},"Order type."," Market orders fill at whatever price exists and therefore slip. Limit orders never slip, but they fail to fill, which is its own cost. Stop orders — including a ",[14,682,684],{"href":683},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-stop-loss","stop loss"," — become market orders the moment they trigger, which is the single most important consequence: a stop guarantees your exit, not your exit price.",[10,687,688,689,692],{},"The worst conditions are predictable: scheduled economic releases, the thin window around the daily rollover, the Sunday open gap, and the moment a cluster of stops is triggered and drains the book. ",[75,690,691],{},"Positive slippage"," exists too — a fill better than requested — and a broker that passes it on while also passing on the negative is behaving symmetrically. One that keeps the good fills and gives you the bad ones is not.",[20,694,55],{"id":54},[10,696,697,698,700,701,705],{},"Slippage is the gap between a strategy on paper and the same strategy on a server. A ",[14,699,62],{"href":61}," run on historical bid prices with zero slippage assumes an execution model that does not exist, and the shorter the ",[14,702,704],{"href":703},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-average-trade-length","average trade",", the larger the share of the edge that assumption invents.",[10,707,708,709,711],{},"The arithmetic is unforgiving at small targets. Half a pip of adverse slippage is a tenth of a five-pip target and a four-hundredth of a two-hundred-pip one, and it lands on top of ",[14,710,456],{"href":455}," and commission rather than instead of them.",[20,713,70],{"id":69},[10,715,716,717,78,719,721,722,725,726,730],{},"Execution quality matters most to systems that fire without waiting for a convenient moment, and that is most of the platform. Across the public accounts on ShowMyTrades with trading history (August 2026), the ",[75,718,77],{},[75,720,81],{}," (42.2% are under 10%). Those accounts reach ",[75,723,724],{},"703 distinct broker servers"," — ",[14,727,729],{"href":728},"\u002Fguides\u002Fsame-strategy-different-brokers","the same strategy, sent to seven hundred different matching engines",", with seven hundred different latency profiles.",[10,732,733,734,737,738,741],{},"Holding periods make the exposure worse. On those accounts the ",[75,735,736],{},"median trade lasts 2.4 hours"," and the median account has closed ",[75,739,740],{},"171 trades",": execution cost is charged often, and each trade has little time for price movement to absorb it.",[20,743,93],{"id":92},[10,745,746],{},"We do not record the price your terminal requested, so per-trade slippage is not a metric we publish, and no honest platform can publish it from broker data alone. What we do publish is the measurable half — the latency that produces it.",[167,748,749,776,798],{},[170,750,96,751,753,754,756,757,761,762,767,768,115,770,115,772,123,774,153],{},[75,752,564],{}," panel (",[75,755,99],{}," on MT5) reports ",[75,758,759],{},[14,760,106],{"href":103},", the round-trip time between the terminal and the broker's trade server, and ",[75,763,764],{},[14,765,110],{"href":766},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-packet-retransmission",", the share of network packets that had to be sent again. Under 50 ms ping is excellent; above 200 ms can mean slower execution and more slippage. Consistently high retransmission points to an unreliable network or a distant trade server. The same panel shows ",[75,769,114],{},[75,771,118],{},[75,773,122],{},[75,775,126],{},[170,777,96,778,780,781,783,784,123,787,790,791,123,794,797],{},[75,779,577],{}," table under ",[75,782,573],{}," carries ",[75,785,786],{},"Open Price",[75,788,789],{},"Close Price"," per ticket, next to the ",[75,792,793],{},"S\u002FL",[75,795,796],{},"T\u002FP"," columns. Comparing where an exit was set against where it actually landed is the closest reading of slippage available from broker records.",[170,799,800,803,804,807],{},[75,801,802],{},"Worst Trade (Pips)"," in ",[75,805,806],{},"Advanced Statistics"," is the fast check. A worst trade far deeper than the account's intended stop distance is the fingerprint of a gapped or slipped exit, not of a bad entry.",[20,809,165],{"id":164},[811,812,813,819,825,831],"ol",{},[170,814,815,818],{},[75,816,817],{},"A stop loss guarantees the exit, not the price."," In a gap it fills at the first available price, which can be far beyond the level.",[170,820,821,824],{},[75,822,823],{},"\"Zero slippage\" is not a promise anyone can keep"," on a market order. Guaranteed stops exist, but they are a separate product and they are paid for.",[170,826,827,830],{},[75,828,829],{},"Slippage is not always a loss."," Check whether your fills are ever better than requested; if they never are, that is information about the broker.",[170,832,833,836],{},[75,834,835],{},"Demo results are optimistic."," Demo servers do not model queue position or book depth, so a strategy that is flawless on demo can be marginal live.",[10,838,839,840,153],{},"For how ping, retransmission and the rest of the page fit together, read the ",[14,841,842],{"href":199},"guide to reading a trading account dashboard",{"title":37,"searchDepth":202,"depth":202,"links":844},[845,846,847,848,849],{"id":22,"depth":202,"text":23},{"id":54,"depth":202,"text":55},{"id":69,"depth":202,"text":70},{"id":92,"depth":202,"text":93},{"id":164,"depth":202,"text":165},"Costs","Slippage is the difference between the price you expected and the price you got. 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