MT5 Status Bar

One quick method/technique to check the real-time internet connection between your MT5 platform software & the server of your online crypto broker is to check the MT5 status bars on the MetaTrader 5 software interface - MT5 Connection Bar in MT5 Status Bar.

On the example shown below the MetaTrader 5 Connection Bars on MT5 Status Bar is Shown:

The MT5 status bar is used to illustrate if there is a connection to the trading servers or not, if there is a connectivity to the trading server, then a trader can place trades to the online market using MT5 cryptocurrency charts. When there's a connection MT5 charts can then keep updating - if MetaTrader 5 Bitcoin Charts on your bitcoin trading platform are Not Updating - you should first check the connectivity using the MT5 Connection bars on MT5 Status Bar.

Green Bars - on the Connection bars on MT5 Status Bar illustrates there is a connection, next to the green bars there will also be the kilobytes downloaded & uploaded indicated as a figure.

Red Bars - Connection bars on MT5 Status Bar show that there is no connection and trade transactions to the online brokers' server can't be opened.

Red bars might & may also mean that your online connection is down, henceforth if you are using a connection like dial up & red bars come up, then maybe it is your internet connection, and not necessarily the crypto broker's server. A lot of bitcoin traders ask, “Why aren't my MetaTrader 5 Bitcoin charts updating?” If your MT5 charts freeze, check your MT5 platform's connection to your crypto broker by looking at the MT5 connection bars on the status bar.

To display the status bars on the MT5 platform software, a trader needs to use the "Status Bar" button on the 'View' menu options just as shown below, Press to check, once the option is checked the MT5 status bar will be shown at the bottom right corner of your MT5 Bitcoin Platform.

How to check if there is an online internet connection on the MT5 Platform

MT5 Bitcoin Platform Connection Bars on Status Bar - Green Bars indicate that the connection is online and Red Bars illustrate that the connection is offline. The connection may be either your internet service provider or crypto broker server. Most of the time it will be your internet service provider as the crypto brokers have 2 to Three simultaneous servers and there's no way all of them can be offline even if it's for 1 second.

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How to check if there is an online internet connection on the MT5 Platform