MetaTrader 5 (MT5) · South Africa

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

• The two platforms do not share an account. Working on the newer one means a record that belongs to it, which is why the move begins with something being created rather than converted.
• There is no cut-over instant. Both platforms can be installed and connected at the same time, and for most people the overlap lasts as long as it takes to stop reaching for the old one.
• Positions do not move between platforms. Anything already open stays where it was opened and finishes there, which sets the natural length of the overlap.
• History belongs to the account that produced it. A new account starts with an empty record, and the old one keeps everything that happened on it.
• Layouts, templates and saved chart arrangements are per installation. They are rebuilt rather than transferred, and that is usually the longest single part of the move.
• The habit is the slowest component. Everything technical finishes in an afternoon; opening the wrong platform out of reflex continues for considerably longer.

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.

The move starts with something being created, not converted

The first thing to know about the switch is that nothing is converted. The newer platform works with a record of its own, so the first act is creating one, and that act takes about as long as any other record creation — which is to say almost no time at all.

This surprises people who expect a migration in the usual sense, with data being carried from one side to the other. There is no carrying: there is an old thing that continues to exist and a new thing that starts empty, and the period between them is the entire subject of this page.

Because nothing is converted, nothing can be lost by starting. The old account is untouched by the existence of a new one, which makes the beginning of the move the least costly and most reversible part of it.

The overlap, and what sets its length

Both platforms can be installed, connected and used at the same time. There is no moment at which one is switched off, and no requirement to choose a day. In practice the overlap lasts as long as the slowest thing that has to end naturally.

What ends naturally is whatever was already running when the move began. It stays on the platform where it started, follows its own schedule and finishes there, which means the last of those items sets the earliest date the old platform can be closed for good.

This is why the honest unit for the whole move is not hours but however long is left on the oldest open thing. Everything else about the switch can be finished in an afternoon; that one component cannot be hurried and does not care that a decision has been made.

What does not travel

A new account begins with an empty past. The record of what happened stays with the account that produced it, which is not a loss — the old account remains readable — but it does mean that anything computed from a continuous record has a gap in the middle of it from that day forward.

Saved arrangements belong to an installation rather than to an account: chart layouts, templates, the set of instruments in a watch list, and every small adjustment accumulated over time. Rebuilding them is not difficult and is almost always the longest deliberate task in the move, because it is many small tasks rather than one big one.

The practical approach is to rebuild only what is actually used. Most accumulated arrangements were made once and never touched again, and the move is the one moment when carrying them across can be declined at no cost.

The part that outlasts everything technical

The last component of the move is not on any machine. Reaching for the familiar platform out of habit continues long after everything has been set up on the newer one, and it is the reason the overlap tends to be described as longer than it needed to be.

It is also the one part that can be shortened deliberately. Removing the old shortcut from wherever it is normally clicked does more to end an overlap than any amount of setup, because the habit is triggered by the shortcut rather than by a preference.

Until the old platform is genuinely closed, both are live and both can be acted on, which is the one real risk in a long overlap: not that something breaks, but that an instruction goes to the platform that was not intended.

Working through the switch without a false start

1. Create the record for the newer platform first. It is instant, it is reversible, and nothing about the existing one is affected by it.
2. Leave anything already open where it is. It will finish on the platform where it started, and that is what sets the earliest sensible end of the overlap.
3. Run both for a while on purpose rather than by accident, and note which one each instruction is meant for while both are live.
4. Rebuild only the arrangements actually in use. Most saved layouts were made once and never revisited, and this is the moment to leave them behind.
5. Expect the past to stay where it was made; keep the older account readable rather than trying to move what it holds.
6. End the overlap by removing the old shortcut, not by deciding to stop using it — habit follows the shortcut.

This page describes the shape and length of the move. What each platform does is described on its own page.

What the switch does to each thing

Only the last row is under anyone's direct control, and it is the row that usually decides how long the overlap feels.

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