Latency budget

The tolerable delay between a signal and its execution for a given strategy. Intraday-to-swing systems live comfortably with a file-poll bridge’s tens of milliseconds; if your strategy is genuinely latency-sensitive, no MetaTrader bridge fits and you need a FIX API instead.

First used in Lesson 3.1 · MT5 + Python architecture — the lesson that makes this term real.