Metatrader 5 Brokers

Metatrader 5 Trading Terminal is the latest version of the popular forex trading platform produced by MetaQuotes, the company behind Metatrader 4 and MQL4 development environment. It will support all forex industry standards and feature improved performance and high working speed, new timeframes and order types and the possibility to trade on futures and stock markets. Metatrader 5 has also a build-in NFA ruling compliance support. The new regulations are prohibiting traders from hedging (having long and short positions open on the same currency pair at the same time). This means that hedging is disabled and multiple positions will be consolidated into one netted off trading position.

The lack of hedging support is bad news for traders who use order hedging within one currency as part of their trading strategy or expert advisor trading. Currently, only Metatrader brokers in US are affected, but moving trading accounts from US to other countries where hedging is still allowed is pointless because many Metatrader brokers will soon start switching to the new Metatrader 5 platform. This is a great benefit for the retail forex market makers ( Metatrader brokers and dealers ) because when a hedging loss is made, the profits go to the market makers and not traders.

Metatrader 5 will also have influence on broker dealing desks which may become fully automated. In the past forex dealing desks could be spotted out by using program execution delays. The new Metatrader 5 terminal is much faster and designed for the forex brokers to make more money from the trades. It may also become easier for the Metatrader brokers to use the so called "virtual dealer" plugin.

Metatrader 4 is used by more than 300 brokers all over the world. With the new Metatrader 5 software, this number will definitely grow higher. A few months ago Alpari Russia, a Metatrader 4 broker, announced the upcoming availability of Metatrader 5 for its clients. Two weeks ago, the leading broker FXDD also announced the launch of the Metatrader 5 platform, a demo account is already available. According to many traders, FXOpen and Broco will also offer Metatrader 5 for their clients because both of the brokers are known for being innovative in their approach to forex traders and both rely heavily on MetaTrader software and its features. It is also expected that some brokers will give their clients the freedom to choose: stay with Metatrader 4 or upgrade to Metatrader 5.

One of the disadvantages of Metatrader 5 is that the MQL4 developing environment which is used to produce trading indicators and expert advisors is not compatible with MQL5. This means that all custom MQL4 code must be rewritten in the new programming language which is very time consuming. If, however, there will be a software tool to convert the existing indicators, scripts and expert advisors from MQL4 to MQL5, the process of introduction of the new Metatrader 5 platform to clients of brokers who use Metatrader software will be much smoother.

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