Broker execution scoreboard
Broker execution scoreboard
Measured execution speed
Execution speed here is the broker's own millisecond timestamps — the gap between the order reaching the server and the fill — so it excludes your internet connection and measures only what the broker controls. Across 1,040 measured fills on 1 connected account, IC Trading filled orders in a median of 44ms, with 95% of fills inside 175ms. The p95 matters more than the median if you trade news: it's the slow tail that costs money.
On XAUUSD, IC Trading's measured fill latency ranks 3 of 12 measured brokers.
Median fill latency across all symbols — latency is the one metric that compares across symbols.
median, broker-side (order received → filled)
Server load shifts across the trading day.
| Session | Median latency | p95 latency | Fills |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia (00–07 UTC) | N/A — insufficient evidence |
Median 44ms from order received to filled, measured on 1,040 real fills; the slowest 5% took longer than 175ms. The session table shows how that shifts across the trading day.
From the broker's own order history: MT5 records when the server received the order and when it filled, in milliseconds. That isolates the broker's processing from your network latency — a slow VPS can't make a broker look bad here, and a fast one can't make it look good.
For scalping and news trading, yes — hundreds of milliseconds move prices. For swing trades held days, median latency is nearly irrelevant, though a long p95 tail can still hurt stop-loss fills in fast markets.
Read more: What Execution Speed Is Normal in MT5? Read Lifecycle Timing Correctly · Broker Execution Quality: Measure Slippage, Lifecycle Timing and Spread — or connect an account read-only and put your own fills in these numbers.
| N/A — insufficient evidence |
| 43 |
| London (07–13 UTC) | N/A — insufficient evidence | N/A — insufficient evidence | 23 |
| New York (13–21 UTC) | 46 ms | 111 ms | 65 |
| Late (21–24 UTC) | N/A — insufficient evidence | N/A — insufficient evidence | 1 |
Median and p95 fill latency per symbol.
| Symbol | Median latency | p95 latency | Fills |
|---|---|---|---|
| XAUUSD | 44 ms | 247 ms | 494 |
| EURUSD | 42 ms | 61 ms | 454 |
| GBPUSD | 45 ms | 165 ms | 52 |
| DE40 | 118 ms | 196 ms | 36 |
| BTCUSD | N/A — insufficient evidence | N/A — insufficient evidence | 4 |