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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 [...]

Convenient – Use your iPhone to stay up to date with current market conditions and news – anywhere with a cell signal with Forex On The Go. Flexible – Place and close orders, monitor live trades, set stop-loss and take-profit and more with any MT4 broker. Dynamic – Real-time tick chart can provide up to [...]

Pending orders are the client’s commitment to the brokerage company to buy or sell a security at a pre-defined price in the future. This type of orders is used for the opening of a trade position provided the future price quotes reach the pre-defined level. There are usually four types of pending orders available in [...]

Leverate Unveils New Version of Web Trader Front-End Platform for MetaTrader (PRWEB) August 18, 2010 Leverate (www.leverate.com), a leading provider of comprehensive and innovative solutions for brokers, announced today the recent launch of an enhanced version of Leverate Web Trader. The new version of Leverate Web Trader introduces a wealth of improvements, both in terms [...]

This article is dedicated to peculiarities of transferring price constructions written in MQL4 to MQL5. To make the process of transferring indicator calculations from MQL4 to MQL5 easier, the mql4_2_mql5.mqh library of functions is suggested. Its usage is described on the basis of transferring of the MACD, Stochastic and RSI indicators. Introduction Hello dear readers! [...]

Many people asked MetaQuotes to develop a mobile version of Metatrader 4 for iPhone. Unfortunately, the mobile version of MT4 is only available for the Windows Mobile platform ( Smartphones and Pocket PC’s). However the good news is that Metatrader 5 will be available for Iphone and Google Android platforms! It was recently confirmed by [...]

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 [...]

This article is a quick guide to MQL4 language functions, it will help you to migrate your programs from MQL4 to MQL5. For each MQL4 function (except trading functions) the description and MQL5 implementation are presented, it allows you to reduce the conversion time significantly. For convenience, the MQL4 functions are divided into groups, similar [...]

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 [...]

At times traders may need to perform a time synchronization task when expert advisor is working. Prohibition or permission for orders opening in certain time spans during 24 hours, cancellation of suspended orders after certain time, prohibition against work of the expert advisor on holidays, trade permission only at news-time etc. may be required. Time [...]

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 [...]

Fixed displaying of pending orders for symbols with 3 decimal places. At 100 points before the execution price orders are highlighted red. The live update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.

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You are able to manually set scale charts in MetaTrader by pressing F8 -> click the Common tab -> then select Scale fix.

IBFX is running two promotions for the month of March 2010.  The promotions include a $50 deposit for a new account and 10% deposit match.  For the $50 bonus promotion, there first must be a $250 deposit made by the client before the $50 bonus will be deposited.  For the 10% promotion, there is a minimum deposit amount of $2,000. Below is an [...]

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 [...]

Hot keys (accelerating keys) are keys and their combination’s that allow you to execute various commands fast and without the use of menus or toolbars. Here is a lit of some very useful hot keys for the MT4 platform: Left Arrow — chart scrolling to the left; Right Arrow — chart scrolling to the right; [...]

Development of applications for the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal requires the knowledge of MQL4. This programming language MetaQuotes Language 4 is a fourth-generation language that has also been developed by MetaQuotes Software Corp. from their own many years experience. MQL4 is the first programming language to consider all niceties of trading on financial markets. This [...]