EA trading tons of currency pairs in MT4 - can MT4 handle this?

Trading Systems Expert Advisors and Automated Trading
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So the strategy I have is based on a pattern. The pattern can be found
across all currency pairs. So, thus I’m interested in trading all the
currency pairs that my broker offers. I believe it is around ~30.

I have an EA that will be trading all of these pairs. With trading that many
pairs using an EA, will this bog down my system? I have a Dell 755 with 8
gigs of ram. Planning on using this as my trading station. I’m hoping that
MT4 is efficient enough to be able to handle this amount of pairs with the
current hardware that I have.

Thoughts on someone who has done this? Should MT4 be able to handle trading
this amount of pairs on that computer easily without breaking a sweat, do I
need to add more RAM, increase my CPU speed, etc.

Thanks.

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From my experience, the EAs that have performance problems are the ones that make long custom indicator calculations or check for stuff in the trading history Also the ones that have a lot of trades open at the same time (about 50 - 60 trades) and constantly checking for stop/profit conditions or relation between trades.

With this said, in your case it will depend on the complexity of the pattern (This means how many bars are used and what calculations). If it’s just simple pattern that you can detect with about 20 - 30 bars you won’t have performance issues even if it’s multicurrency