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IBFX Australia Pty Ltd. Acquires Business Licence to Open Doors in Sydney, Australia IBFX Holdings LLC, parent company of leading U.S. off-exchange retail foreign currency (forex) broker Interbank FX LLC, announced today the opening of its Australian subsidiary, IBFX Australia Pty. IBFX Australia Pty. Ltd. has obtained a license with the Australian Securities and Investments [...]

Deltastock MetaTrader 4 is now available and allows clients to trade Forex, Spot Gold and Silver. PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 27, 2010 Delastock, a Global Forex and CFD Broker, announced the launch of Deltastock MetaTrader 4 as a standalone trading platform. Deltastock’s clients now can enjoy the ability to choose between Deltastock’s proprietary trading [...]

978 Participants Registered MetaQuotes Software Corp., Interbank FX, MIG Bank, FXCM, the TRADERS’ magazine and Dow Jones hold the fourth annual Automated Trading Championship 2010. The best three developers of automated trading strategies will be revealed within three months. Assessment criterion will be the absolute profit. Winners will share the Automated Trading Championship 2010 Prize [...]

In MQL5 you can write an indicator both from a scratch and on the basis of another already existing indicator, in-built in the client terminal or a custom one. And here you also have two ways – to improve an indicator by adding new calculations and graphical styles to it , or to use an [...]

With the launch of the “Jobs” service, the MQL5.community became an ideal place for placing orders and providing programming services. Thousands of traders and developers visit this resource on a daily basis, and can easily help each other. For a trader, the “Jobs” service is the opportunity to easily obtain his own Expert Advisor. For [...]

FXCM Holdings LLC (FXCM) (http://www.fxcm.com) has been awarded Best Retail Platform by FX Week at the 2010 e-FX awards for the second year in a row. The award, announced on July 13, 2010, at the FX Week U.S. conference, recognizes industry excellence in electronic foreign exchange trading from banks and vendors. FXCM prevailed over other [...]

LiteForex group of companies is pleased to announce the new demo server launch intended for testing Metatrader-5, the next-generation platform. MetaTrader-5 trading platform has been developed for working in Forex and CFD markets which is a big advantage for traders interested in both stock and currency tools. Trading possibilities of MetaTrader-5 have been considerably extended [...]

I know it’s a bit late yet this hasn’t been published yet so what the hell. Hotspot recently released their trading volume figures and the numbers are simply astounding. During May 2010 Hotspot transacted over $1 Trillion total volume… May 6th was the most volatile with almost $90 billion traded in a single day. From [...]

A little bit of history As little as 5 years ago, the MetaTrader 4 terminal was officially presented to the traders, written completely from scratch and intending to replace the existing, and already popular, third generation terminal of MetaQuotes Software Corp. MetaTrader 4 quickly gained popularity among traders, and as a consequence, in the following [...]

Recently the beta version of MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester was released. This program is the integral part of the MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal being designed for the purposes of testing and optimization of MQL5 Expert Advisors. With the testing you can assess the qualities of your Expert Advisor on history data before launching it in [...]

How do stop orders work in MetaTrader? Buy stop, Sell stop and Stop loss orders do NOT guarantee an order will be filled at a certain price.  Your specified price is known as the stop price.  Once the stop price is met or exceeded, the order becomes a market order.  Market orders instruct the broker [...]

MetaTrader 5 Beta Testing MetaTrader 5 is at the stage of public beta testing. Please join the testing, and help MetaQuotes to improve the new client terminal for Forex, CFD and Futures, as well as equity markets. To download MetaTrader 5, please visit http://www.metatraderglobal.com/metatrader-5-download/ To read more about the MetaTrader 5 beta, please visit http://www.metatraderglobal.com/183/public-beta-testing-of-the-metatrader-5-terminal/

Global currency trading volume declined 6 percent to just under $100 trillion last year, after setting records in 2007 and 2008, as hedge funds placed fewer trades than in previous years, Greenwich Associates said. Trading by fund managers fell 23 percent in 2009, leading the declines among the 1,497 corporate and institutional customers surveyed by [...]

FXOpen to offer free education in Moscow Moscow, Russia – April 23, 2010. FXOpen Investment Inc. participated in the Ninth International Exhibition MOSCOW FOREX EXPO, that took place in the Radisson SAS Centre on April 23-24, 2010. The Company was pleased to announce that it would offer free educational courses in trading, starting in its [...]

A pip is the smallest increment in any currency pair. In EUR/USD, a movement from 1.0066 to 1.0067 is one pip, so a pip is .0001. In USD/JPY, a movement from 120.45 to 120.46 is one pip, so a pip is .01. How much in dollars is this movement worth, for example, per 100,000 Euros [...]

MetaTrader is one of the most popular trading platform among presently existing. Wide configuration and control possibilities for brokers and a robust programming tool, the integrated MQL language for traders make the system handy and versatile in use. The MQL integrated programming language is a C++ like language. Its concepts and syntax are familiar which [...]

The current price shown on an MT4 chart is the bid price. When looking at a price bar or candle, you must add the spread to the high bid price to know what the high ask price would have been, or add the spread to the low bid price to know what the low ask [...]

You receive the “Trade context is busy” message when you try to process two or more orders at the same time. If you have placed a trade and do not wait until it processes completely and then try to place the same trade or a different trade, the commands go into a loop and you [...]

Press F10 to open the Popup prices window. To enable the popup window to be “Always on the Top” right mouse click in the popup window. This will enable you quotes while working with other applications. You can also select “Properties…” in the right click menu of the popup prices window, which will allow you [...]

Looking for a MetaTrader Broker with a local office in India? MetaTrader India recomends Alpari Forex (India) Pvt. Ltd. is a company formed under the Indian Companies Act, 1956.  To find out more and to open an account visit http://www.metatrader.in/metatrader-forex-broker/ Alpari offers Online Trading in Forex via MetaTrader 4 (MT4), one of the world’s most recognised [...]