Requotes in MetaTrader: What They Are and How to Get Rid of Them

A requote is the message "price has changed, accept the new one?". It appears when you send an order at a price the server no longer has.

Why it works this way

Under Instant Execution you trade against the price the broker showed you, and it is obliged to honour that exact price. If the market has moved, it cannot — so it offers a new one. That is the requote.

Under Market Execution the broker promises no price at all. It fills at whatever exists when your order arrives. Requotes are impossible by design; slippage takes their place.

When it becomes a problem

The occasional requote around a data release is ordinary mechanics. What to watch for:

• requotes in quiet market conditions;
• the new price always worse than the original;
• requotes becoming more frequent as your account grows.

Asymmetry is the marker. If a broker only declines fills when the move favours you, quote latency is not the explanation.

What to do

Pick a Market Execution account. Check the contract specification — execution type often differs between Standard and Raw accounts at the same broker. And do not set a tight maximum deviation ahead of news, or nothing will fill at all.

Read next

• Slippage
• Account types
• Execution speed: what to look at