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Boston Technologies is now offering brokers not only forex liquidity bridges and liquidity (BT Prime) but also CFD liquidity. CFD liquidity is typically not very easy to find as CFDs for now are not as popular as the usual spot forex which everybody in our market trade. Typically liquidity was provided by CFD giants like [...]

Boston Technologies the providers of first ever MT4 bridge (something that has become quite a commodity lately with more than 2 dozen bridges now being offered by various providers) are now offering to automate your strategy into an EA or upgrade an existing MQL4 one to MQL5. We’ve seen a similar offering from FXCM not [...]

By Oz Golan, Tradency. Meta Quotes 5th championship take place on the 4th of October 2010, with grand total prizes of 80,000USD. The 2009 annual championship was skipped by Meta Quotes, possibly because of preparations to release the new MT5 platform and the MQL5 language. The main purpose of the competition agenda according to MetaQuotes [...]

Alpari, one of the largest MT4 brokers, just announced the availability of the Metatrader 5 demo platform to its users. Alpari and Metaquote owners are known to be childhood friends therefore it’s not surprising that Alpari got to be the first to test out Metaquotes new platform. The new MT5 isn’t anything revolutionary but brings a nice [...]

Interbank FX, one of the most innovative brokers out there, is launching FX Ideas – a collaborative portal between traders and Interbank, as well as between themselves and will also sponsor the upcoming Automated Trading Championship. Automated Trading Championship in their own words: Interbank FX is proud to be the largest sponsor of the Automated Trading [...]

Metaquotes, the largest Forex software provider in the world, is becoming more and more transparent and advanced. I’m not talking about the new and controversial Metatrader 5. I’m talking about the new management profile page that Metaquotes uploaded to its website. Yes my friends, this is a revolution. Metaquotes was notoriously known for lacking efficient [...]

Many of you are aware that MT5 can now be downloaded and tested. I’m going to quickly go over some of the differences between MT4 and the new upcoming MT5, which I tested recently. Please note I am only using a demo copy of MT5 (since MT5 won’t go live for some time yet).. 1. [...]

The long-awaited release of MetaTrader 5 is just around the corner and, believe me, it will be well worth the wait. There is no upgrade path from MetaQuotes’ MetaTrader 4 trading platform to MetaTrader 5. MT5 is a brand new platform and expert advisors, custom indicators, scripts or autotrading robots that run on MT4 will not be compatible with MT5.

MetaTrader 5 has been under development for two years and beta testing will finally begin this summer. MT5 is a complete rewrite of the MetaQuotes platform and is not backward compatible with MT4. So if you purchased expert advisors to trade on MT4 and you plan to use MT5, you might as well throw those MT4 EAs away. They won’t work on MT5.

This is the first in a 5-part series on MetaQuotes upcoming release of the MetaTrader 5 trading platform. The new MT5 platform is not an upgrade of MT4 but rather an entirely new client terminal, written from scratch.