Exness Execution Speed — Measured With Real Orders
Not a marketing claim: market orders were actually placed and closed on Exness’s MetaTrader 5 platform, and every fill was timed in-terminal. Measured 2026.07.02 16:38.
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Execution quality is one of the account features Exness highlights, and it cannot be judged from quotes alone — only a real order shows the latency, the fill price and whether the platform rejects size. The probe opens and immediately closes positions of increasing size and records what actually happened.
Execution speed and fill quality vary with market conditions, liquidity and position size.
Measured round-trips by instrument and size
| Instrument | Lot size | Avg execution | Slowest fill | Avg slippage (signed) | Better / zero / worse fills | Rejects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.01 | 151 ms | 187 ms | -0.3 pts | 1 / 2 / 0 | 0 |
| EUR/USD | 0.1 | 151 ms | 172 ms | -0.3 pts | 1 / 2 / 0 | 0 |
| EUR/USD | 1 | 146 ms | 172 ms | -0.3 pts | 1 / 2 / 0 | 0 |
| GBP/USD | 0.01 | 141 ms | 156 ms | +0.7 pts | 0 / 1 / 2 | 0 |
| GBP/USD | 0.1 | 130 ms | 140 ms | +0.0 pts | 0 / 3 / 0 | 0 |
| GBP/USD | 1 | 135 ms | 156 ms | +0.3 pts | 0 / 2 / 1 | 0 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 0.01 | 141 ms | 172 ms | +0.0 pts | 0 / 3 / 0 | 0 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 0.1 | 151 ms | 172 ms | +80.0 pts | 1 / 1 / 1 | 0 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 1 | 130 ms | 141 ms | -72.3 pts | 2 / 1 / 0 | 0 |
Across 27 measured round-trips the average fill took 130–151 ms depending on instrument and size, with 0 rejected orders in total. Negative slippage means the fill was better than the quoted price at the moment the order was sent.
Slippage in points, signed: negative = filled better than quoted, positive = worse. ‘Rejects’ counts orders the platform refused at that size.
How this was measured
- Real market orders (buy, then immediate close) placed in an Exness MetaTrader 5 terminal.
- Latency timed in-terminal from order send to broker confirmation.
- Sizes stepped 0.01 → 1.00 lot to expose size-dependent slippage.
- Fills depend on market liquidity, account and conditions, and can differ.
Measured in-terminal on Exness’s own MetaTrader 5 pricing feed and symbol specifications, refreshed on a schedule. All figures are indicative and change with market conditions.
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