About MetaQuotes Software Corp.

The main field of MetaQuotes Software Corp. is the development of software for financial markets: Forex, Stocks, Futures & CFDs. The company has been doing this for over ten years now and continues to build momentum.

During more than ten years of hard work, we have developed and brought to the market five trading platforms. The first one, FX Charts, was a truly revolutionary product: an easy to use, reliable and functional trading platform for the Forex market. It helped the company to enter the market and start to conquer it.

The second MetaQuotes Trading Platform further strengthened the company's position in the financial software market. A vast community of traders warmly welcomed the new platform, which included an extended set of trading and analytical functions. MetaQuotes was designed not only for Forex, but also for the CFD market. It also contained the first, yet imperfect automated trading language (MQL).

MetaTrader Forex Trading Platforms

With more experience in developing the MetaQuotes platform, the company started to work on a new software system. The third platform was called MetaTrader and soon also entered the financial market.

MetaTrader was designed for trading in Forex, CFD and Futures markets and for the first time included the Expert Advisor (trading robots) development environment MQL II. The first mobile trading platforms (MetaTrader 3 CE and MetaTrader for Palm) were released in 2003 and both became very popular. Having a true innovative structure, MetaTrader continued to develop and improve.

The commercial success of the trading platform and rave reviews from traders surpassed all previous achievements and expectations of the company. The number of clients was growing rapidly and MetaTrader Trading Platform was becoming very popular among traders and brokers. The platform was gradually becoming the industry standard and a benchmark for other companies' developments to compare with. MetaTrader was a commercially successful product, but it was time for even more achievements.

In July 2005 a new generation product evolved under the MetaTrader brand. An absolutely new trading platform released was named MetaTrader 4. However, the only thing that was left the same was the name of its predecessor.

"Everything was written from scratch. We developed a new architecture that could give significant benefits, but was impossible to implement it in MetaTrader 3. So after 20 months spent on development, we released a new trading platform. Finally we were able to offer a new product, which derived from all our ideas collectively," - says Renat Fatkhullin, CEO of MetaQuotes Software Corp.

The MetaTrader 4 trading platform brought to the market outstanding performance, a distributed architecture and great functionality. Having realized all these characteristics, many brokers had purchased the new platform even before its official release. From the end-user perspective, traders had a powerful tool to trade, analyze and develop free forex trading systems.

The new MQL4 IDE development environment was also a revolutionary new tool. The C-like language was amazingly fast and functional. This language enabled developers to create virtually any trading programs and technical indicator. The built-in editor helped simplify the development of automated trading robots (automated and algorithmic trading), while the strategy tester allowed testing and optimizing of Expert Advisors (EAs, trading robots).

To demonstrate the possibilities of MQL4 IDE, the company organized and conducted three championships, i.e. Automated Trading Championships 2006-2008. The competition was held under the highest standards with a resounding success. As a result, all of the company's efforts and actions in the field of automated trading have led to its unprecedented rise.

Mobile traders also received a special gift - the MetaTrader 4 mobile trading software. This application was developed to operate on smart phones and PDAs with MS Windows Mobile, allowing to perform online trading from anywhere in the world. The terminal for PDA was also equipped with impressive analytical resources. Today, thousands of traders from around the world are trading through mobile trading platforms delivered by MetaQuotes Software Corp.

Meanwhile, the platform continued gaining popularity all over the world. The number of clients kept growing with more than 200 brokers and banks at the time, already using MetaTrader 4 Trading Platform. At that stage the need was realized and the decision was taken to start the development of a completely new trading platform.

The Magnificent Five

After three years of development, on the 1st of June 2010, the new MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform was officially released. The revolutionary factor of MetaTrader 5 is the ability to offer trading for almost all financial markets, including stock markets. The second remarkable feature is the radically enhanced performance and efficiency.

MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform has an improved distributed architecture in which five servers balance the work load. This allows for scaling the platform and further enhancing its performance. Functionality, flexibility and security of the MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform are on an absolutely new level now.

With the new trading platform, traders will obtain access to a new trading system which can be adopted by the exchanges. New trading capabilities have been introduces, while technical analysis and fundamental analysis have been greatly improved. MetaTrader 5 offers a more powerful tool for developers of Expert Advisors (trading robots) - the MQL5 IDE. It also includes a new object-oriented language, an editor with a debugger and a multicurrency strategy tester. To see how the developers are already using these new tools, visit the website of the Automated Trading Championship 2010.

The new features of MetaTrader 5 stimulated great interest from traders and brokers. The commercial success emerged quickly and as with MetaTrader 4, we received first orders for the new trading platform long before its official release. Until today, several dozens of brokerage firms have acquired the MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform to service their traders.

"I'm sure that MetaTrader 5 has a great future. At the moment this is probably the most advanced software on the market. With this trading platform we want to go beyond the retail Forex and expand into new markets," - Renat Fatkhullin says.

MetaQuotes Today

After a long way, having released five successful trading platforms, MetaQuotes Software Corp. has earned the reputation of the most reliable software solution provider. The company still keeps on growing and developing. Today over 70 dedicated professionals work in the company, with offices located around the world.

Apart of the development of trading platforms, the company is offering an enterprise management system. In February 2009, the first commercial system TeamWox was released. It was warmly welcomed by the market and hundreds of small and medium-sized organizations have chosen TeamWox to manage their companies. Currently, MetaQuotes is actively building up momentum and forming a network of partners to distribute TeamWox worldwide.

In addition, the company does not only provide reliable software products, but also actively builds the network infrastructure around them. MetaQuotes has already promoted several relevant Internet sites and events to accumulate the knowledge base necessary for our products, which is then available to our clients.

MetaQuotes Software always applies a fair and mutually beneficial approach to working with customers and partners. Reputation and reliability is what matters the most on the B2B market, and gaining client confidence and trust takes a lot of hard work and effort. Today, hundreds of top international companies trust us, perceiving our reputation as a trustworthy software supplier. This is the best evidence of high professional competence and reliability of MetaQuotes Software Corp.

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