API bridges outside MT5: latency practices that hold up

[FXS Prop Desk]

The garbage collection point is worth stressing, because it causes pauses that look like network delays in the logs. A simple way to separate the two is to timestamp three moments in the code: tick received, decision made, and order sent. If the gap between the first two is ever larger than the ping to the broker, the bottleneck is in the logic, not the connection. Many retail setups would gain more from that measurement than from moving to a closer server.