Quotes Freeze Plugin

 

Introduction

 

The Quotes Freeze plugin is intended to disable trading on a particular symbol if the market price had not been updated for a period of time. This plugin is a good insurance against the technical failure of the server datafeed and prevent traders from taking advantages on stopped/stalled prices.

 

Plugin Installation

 

To install the plugin, the MetaTrader 5 Server program has to be stopped temporary before copying the quotesfreeze.dll file into the “MetaTrader 5 Platform/MainTrade/plugins” in the server root directory.

 

1. To stop the server, click on Start > Administrative Tools > Services.

2. Under the Services window, look for MetaTrader 5 Main Trade Server and click it.

3. On the General tab, under Service status, click on the “Stop” button and wait for the MetaTrader server to stop.

4. Transfer/Copy the quotesfreeze.dll file into the server root directory “plugin” folder.

5. Go back to Services window, click “Start” button to start the MetaTrader 5 Main Trade Server service.

 

How to order the plugin

 

The plugin is an extension to the server functionality.