Trading proxy in Toronto
The short answer
Yes, our trading proxy has a server in Toronto. Choose Toronto as your broker’s city if your broker’s trade server is there, wherever you trade from. You connect to our nearest server, and our Toronto server opens a local connection to your broker.
Choose Toronto as your broker’s city if your broker’s trade server is there.
We have a server in Toronto. You connect to our server nearest you, and you choose your broker’s city in your dashboard. The software on our servers is our own, so no one else’s proxy sits between you and your broker.
Choose Toronto if your broker’s trade server is there. The server your platform logs in to when you place an order. That city matters most, because our help is on our server’s connection to your broker. If you also trade near Toronto, you connect to that same server.
Note. Brokers’ own pages don’t always say where your account is.
OANDA’s press release of 24 January 2017 said OANDA housed servers in Toronto, and its US servers in New York. It names no platform and may no longer hold. Ask your broker’s support before you pick Toronto.
Our Toronto server recovers lost data inside Toronto.
Our server’s city matters when the internet loses part of your order. When you click Buy, your order crosses the internet to your broker as small pieces of data.
Sometimes the internet loses a piece. Your computer waits, then sends it again, all the way to your broker. If that copy is lost too, it waits twice as long.
Everything sent after it waits as well. In a busy moment, this is what delays price updates and holds up your next order.
Our server in Toronto opens a separate local connection to your broker’s trade server. If data drops on that link, our server recovers it inside Toronto. Trading ports go first when a server is busy, and broker addresses stay warm in memory.
Our server also sends your order out as soon as it arrives. It isn’t held back to bundle with other data, which is how standard settings can delay a small order.
Note. Our help covers one connection and doesn’t shorten the distance.
Your connection to our nearest server runs over your own internet, which we don’t change. Our help is on the link between our server and your broker.
If your broker is in another city, pick that city instead.
You can trade from Toronto and still pick any city on our list as your broker’s city. The distance to your broker sets the shortest time an order can take.
If you trade from Toronto, your broker in New York is about 550 km away in a straight line. An order then needs at least 5 milliseconds to reach your broker and get an answer back. No proxy, VPS or internet plan can beat that.
For a broker in London, about 5,710 km away, the minimum is 57 milliseconds. The farther your broker, the longer each recovery wait takes from your computer.
Pick your broker’s city so our server there recovers lost data inside that hub instead of from Toronto. Your data still travels the whole distance, so the physics floor stays the same. Paid plans also never share servers with free accounts.
If your broker’s trade server is in a city we don’t list, we have no server there. Traders Proxy is then a weaker fit.
Three steps set you up, with nothing to install.
These steps send your platform’s connection to your broker through our Toronto server.
- 01
Find your broker’s city
Open your platform’s login window. It shows the name of the server your account is on, but the name does not always say the city. Ask your broker’s support which city that server is in.
Our server location guide shows how to check.
- 02
Choose Toronto as your broker’s city
Open your dashboard and go to Connect. Under Your broker’s city, press Change your broker’s city. Choose Toronto, then press Use Toronto.
Your four values point to the server you connect to, so this choice never changes them. If that server isn’t the city nearest you, press Change the server you connect to first. That one changes the Server value.
- 03
Copy four values into your platform
Under Your values for your platform, copy the server, port, login and password into your platform’s proxy setting. Restart the platform so it connects through our servers.
The login and password are your Traders Proxy ones, not your broker’s, so we never ask for your broker login. Your broker sees the address of our Toronto server.
If you picked the wrong broker’s city, change it any time, and your four values stay the same. Restart your platform to use the new city straight away. We never move you to a different city without asking.
You can see whether it helps before you rely on it.
Time how long your platform takes to connect and show live prices, once without us and once with us. Our connection check shows how.
If the two times match, you don’t need us. The problem shows up in busy sessions, so the best time to compare is a big news release. Most weeks bring one.
Know these five limits before you pay.
- It does not change your ping, the time data takes there and back. We don’t promise lower ping. Distance sets the minimum. Be wary of anyone who promises it.
- It does not change your own internet. The connection from you to our server is only as good as your internet, so a weak Wi-Fi signal stays weak.
- It does not touch anything outside your trading app. Only the trading app you set up uses Traders Proxy. Everything else stays on your normal internet, so your plan’s data goes on trading.
- It does not change your broker’s rules. If your broker prohibits proxies, don’t use one. Check your broker’s terms before you start.
- It does not keep a platform running with your computer off. If an expert advisor must run while your computer is off, you need a VPS. See proxy or VPS compared.
What should you read next?
- Trading proxy in New YorkRead about another city we list.
- Trading proxy in LondonRead about another city we list.
- Broker server citiesSee what brokers say on their own pages.
- Our server citiesSee every city you can pick.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be in Toronto to use the Toronto server?
No. Choose Toronto as your broker’s city if your broker’s trade server is there. You connect to our server nearest you, wherever you trade from.
Does a server in Toronto shorten the distance to my broker?
No. Distance sets the minimum, and no software beats it. Our server in Toronto opens a local connection to your broker and recovers lost data inside that city. So your order waits on a short local link, not the whole way from your computer.
Is Traders Proxy a VPS in Toronto?
No. A VPS moves your whole platform to another computer. We leave your platform where it is and only change where it connects. An expert advisor (EA) that must run while your computer is off needs a trading VPS.
Does my broker allow a proxy?
Check your broker’s terms. If your broker prohibits proxies, don’t use one. Traders Proxy doesn’t change what your broker allows.
Do I get my own IP address?
No. Your broker sees one steady address. That of our server in your broker’s city, shared with other Traders Proxy customers. It changes if you change your broker’s city or we replace a server.
Field reports · Verified forum threads
Real forum reports, what our system does, and where it stops.
Every quote below links to the forum thread or vendor guide where it appeared. Underneath each quote, see which parts of our system work together on it and where our server stops.
A firewall, router or ISP drops the platform's broker connection but lets ordinary web traffic through
“The MT5 trading server mt5.metaquotes.net runs on port 1950. We have closed all the "left" ports at our company, including port 1950.”
How our system handles it. Your platform connects to our server through its built-in SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy setting, and our server opens the broker connection from inside the datacenter.
- Built-in
SOCKS5loginPrimary - Own separate connection to your brokerPrimary
- Unanswered broker server gives up fast and reportsSupporting
Where it stops. Works only if your network still lets you reach our server. We cannot repair a faulty home router or an ISP outage.
MT4/MT5 or cTrader trade alerts and signal bots cannot reach Telegram
“Enable proxy server — allow the use of a proxy server when connecting to the trade server.”
Why a proxy does not change this. Telegram in one tap works in the Telegram app. It does not route your trading robots' messages.
Where it stops. Alert bots and signal copiers make their own web calls. Those calls are not guaranteed to use your platform’s proxy setting.
'Old tick' lines in the Journal
“<old Tick> in itself shouldn't be a problem but can be a pointer to break/s in communication with the broker server Check your internet connection for speed (both ways) and packet loss statistics”
Why a proxy does not change this. Traders Proxy changes the route your platform uses to reach your broker. It doesn't change quotes, fills or what your Journal says.
Where it stops. MetaQuotes staff confirm that Old tick journal entries are filtered out by the terminal and logged for information only.
Windows Server update reboots a rented VPS while a position is open
“Hoster can conduct technical maintenance of the servers during weekends (Saturday and Sunday according to EET time zone) for a total of up to 4 hours a day and, if necessary, during weekdays for a total of up to 15 minutes a day.”
Why a proxy does not change this. Security updates install daily. When a server needs a reboot, it happens at the weekend, with each server at its own time.
- Daily security updates, weekend restartsBoundary
Where it stops. Security updates install daily. When one of our servers needs a restart, it happens at the weekend, and a restart drops live connections.