MetaTrader 4 trading software

MetaTrader 4 is a trading platform developed by MetaQuotes. Over the past fifteen years, MetaTrader 4 has become the most popular trading platform among forex brokers and traders. The trading software has gained much ground between 2007 and 2010, when many forex brokers began to use it as an alternative to their own proprietary software.

MetaTrader 4 allows you to trade on the financial markets (Forex, CFDs and Futures). The trading terminal provides all of the necessary tools and resources you need to analyse the price action of financial instruments, execute trading orders and create and use automated trading robots (Expert Advisors).

Trading orders

The MetaTrader 4 platform allows you to implement complex strategies with market orders, threshold trigger (pending) orders and trailing stops. It is also possible to trade directly from charts.

• 2 execution modes
• 2 market orders
• 4 threshold triggered orders
• 2 stop orders and a trailing stop

Analytical tools

Analytical tools are one of the MetaTrader 4 platform's primary strengths.

Real-time price quotes and interactive charts with 9 different time frames allow you to analyse market prices and respond quickly to any price changes.

The 33 integrated analysis objects and 30 technical indicators greatly simplify this task. However, they are only the tip of the iceberg as there is a platform-integrated library that provides thousands of additional indicators.

• Interactive charts
• 9 time frames
• 33 analytical objects
• 30 technical indicators

Trading signals and copy trading

Do you lack the skills or the time to trade? MetaTrader 4's mirror trading feature allows you to automatically copy other traders' trades. Select your signal supplier, subscribe to a signal, set your desired risk level and let your trading terminal automatically copy the supplier's trades.

Thousands of free and paid signals are available with different profitability and risk levels. You can use these signals on a demo or a real account.

• Thousands of signal suppliers
• Thousands of trading strategies
• Free and paid signals
• Risk management

MetaTrader's market

A market has been integrated into the MT4 platform allowing you to buy Expert Advisors or technical indicators and launch them without leaving the platform. Purchasing is easy, transparent and secure. The market also offers financial magazines and books.

• Many Expert Advisors
• Many technical indicators
• Hundreds of financial magazines
• Dozens of books on finance and trading

Algorithmic trading

Almost all trading strategies can be coded and automatically run by an Expert Advisor.

MetaTrader 4 provides a full environment to develop, test (MT4 backtests) and optimise algorithmic/automated trading programmes.

• MQL4 language for the programming of strategies
• MetaEditor
• Strategy tester and optimiser
• A library of free trading robots

Mobile trading

Smartphones and tablets are essential for trading when you're away from your computer.

You can use the mobile versions of MetaTrader 4 on your iPhones, iPads and Android devices to trade the financial markets no matter where you are.

You will definitely enjoy the features provided by mobile trading platforms, which include all the key functions and significant trading analysis capabilities in addition to technical indicators and other chart objects.

• Support for both iOS and Android OS
• A complete set of trading orders
• Chart analysis tools and technical indicators

Alerts and financial news

Financial news anables you to be always remain informed of the market's news and react quickly if necessary.

Alerts inform you about certain events or the reaching of specific price levels. You can set an alert that notifies you with a sound, an email or a text message when prices exceed a specified value. You can also set a timer to avoid missing important economic news.

• Financial news
• Alerts in real time
• Timer

Open a MetaTrader 4 demo account

Try your luck with virtual money!

A demo account is the best way for new traders to explore MetaTrader 4 and discover trading on the foreign exchange market without any financial risk.

You can trade in real time and analyse the markets using technical indicators without risking your money. Trading signals, copy trading and the use of trading robots (EAs) are available with demo accounts.