Re: Python + MT5: tick latency logger without buying fancy software
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 9:14 pm
That note on infrastructure drift is pure gold. Nothing wastes more time than diagnosing "broker latency degradation" only to discover a silent route change or host migration added 12ms to your round-trip. Terminal truth over smoothed SaaS p99s every time.LondonScalper wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2026 6:59 pmAgree on continuous with rotation. Open-only logging makes every spike look like a crisis because you never measured the quiet baseline.PTScalper wrote:Continuous is strictly better, provided you have a localized log rotation.... If you only log around the London or NY opens, you miss the baseline.
Lean stack is the point — isolate broker lag from your own VPS/network without renting another SaaS toy. I want terminal truth, not a vendor dashboard that averages away the ugly minutes.
Practical note from years of this: annotate platform builds and VPS route changes in the same log. Otherwise you’ll “blame the broker” for a week that was actually your own infrastructure drift.
Have a good trades.