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The monthly audience of MetaTrader 5 for iOS set a record in the first month after returning to the Apple App Store. The current MAU (monthly active users) value significantly exceeded the one observed before the blocking. According to the internal study results, the audience of the application grew by 14% compared to six months ago, which is an absolute record since the launch.

"We expected a smooth recovery of the audience within a month or two, but even more positive dynamics became visible in the first days after the return", says Renat Fatkhullin, CEO of MetaQuotes Ltd. "Contrary to some forecasts, interest in the application became even higher. The trust of users in our trading platform is growing no matter what".

Our team has done a great job to restore MetaTrader 5 for iOS in cooperation with Apple. We had no doubts about a successful outcome, so we never stopped developing improvements. The next big update was released a few days after the application returned to the marketplace. We thank everyone who stayed with us. We really appreciate your support and hope that MetaQuotes products will help you achieve maximum results.

We continue to develop the functionality of the web terminal, which allows you to work with MetaTrader 5 in any browser and from any device. At the same time, we care not only about the technical side of the product, but we also try to make the interaction efficient and comfortable for each user.

From time to time, we have received requests for new color templates from both traders and brokerage companies. As a solution, the MetaQuotes design team has prepared several color template presets, based on your wishes and on traditional color combinations. Each template incorporates night mode making the total number of options at your disposal equal to eight.

Launch the web terminal and try all of them in the Color Templates section:

The current update is just one of the many planned improvements to the web terminal. Use the new features to enhance your user experience in working with MetaTrader 5.

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MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Apps have been reinstated and are available for download from the App Store. During the lengthy process of restoring the Apps back in the App Store, MetaQuotes has communicated to Apple extended explanations surrounding operational technicalities and provided further insights as requested. All matters have been resolved and the iOS applications have been reinstated to the store. Our applications are fully compliant with Apple's requirements.

"We are happy that the situation has been resolved and we managed to find an understanding with Apple" Renat Fatkhullin, CEO of MetaQuotes, commented. "Our company respects the requirements of any marketplace and always strives to meet them. We feel responsible to our users and therefore we did our best to provide clarifications on the issues raised from Apple in a timely manner. I also want to thank the traders, brokers and media, who actively showed their support."

Mobile applications can be downloaded from the App Store (MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5) and from Google Play Store (MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5).

The VPS service is designed for round-the-clock operation of trading robots and signal subscriptions even when your computer is turned off. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) can be rented directly from the MetaTrader platform. More than 430 thousand people have already used the service.

Why do hundreds of thousands of people rent our virtual servers? The reason is straightforward: our hosting service is a more efficient solution than ordinary VPS because it is specifically tailored for traders and meets the needs of different audiences. What are the categories of traders who use the service?

1. Those who need stability

Many users are faced with various household problems, such as computer breakdowns or power outages. It is impossible to predict such issues. After a couple of force majeure situations, people start looking for a reliable solution that guarantees the stable operation of their robots. Trading is always associated with considerable risks, and thus you should try to minimize them by all means.

We work with hosting companies which ensure the highest possible uptime of 99.99%. Therefore, you can be sure that the platform will be reliably connected to the broker's server and that your robots or signal subscriptions will not be interrupted. A stable connection is especially important for copy trading. A signal provider can trade in a different time zone or can execute operations during an inconvenient time frame. With the VPS, subscriptions smoothly operate around the clock, and thus the source time does not matter.

2. Those who care about the execution speed

Execution delays can affect profits generated from trades. Even a delay of just a few milliseconds can be critical, as the price can change during this time. VPS for MetaTrader automatically offers an optimal server, which is located closest to the broker. This minimizes network delays between the trading platform and the trade server, saving valuable price pips. Our hosting points are located in Frankfurt, London, New York, Hong Kong, Moscow, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Chicago and Mumbai.

By saving a few pips per trade, you can pay off the virtual server renting cost. The more trades you perform, the faster the cost will be paid off, and further savings will turn into profit.

3. Those who want to avoid technical details

Nobody likes to get distracted from the main activity, especially if it is connected with money. That is why we have created an easy-to-start solution which does not require any extra effort or special knowledge. Migration to a VPS is a matter of a few seconds. The procedure takes only three mouse clicks for Experts Advisors, indicators, scripts and Signal subscriptions to be transferred to the virtual server. Applications purchased from the Market do not lose activations when launched in our VPS.

There is no need to set up the machine: renting a VPS for MetaTrader is as easy as installing a messenger or subscribing to a signal in the platform. This process does not require any additional administration or network engineering skills. You only need to select a plan, use a suitable payment method and initiate data migration.

Rent a VPS for MetaTrader and enjoy failure-free operation, along with the lowest possible delays. Protect your algorithms from unforeseen interruptions and ensure better trade execution. In just a few minutes, you can start working in a completely new, more efficient environment which can assist in achieving better results.

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The first significant online contact between a company and a client usually occurs on the company's website. After seeing an ad, a landing page or a media publication which mentions your company name, a person visits your website to find out more about your company. Studies show that 75% of users make judgments based on the company's website design, while the first impression is formed in less than 3 seconds. Among the site's major credibility measures are usability and performance: your website must precisely meet customer needs, otherwise they will switch to more suitable options.

MetaQuotes' Finteza web analytics is the only system which has native integration with MetaTrader 5. However, Finteza provides much more tools which, in addition to providing unique information about the trading platform, can assist in making your site more attractive and popular among customers.

The following Finteza features can boost your site.

Performance Metrics

Find out how fast your site loads. Loading speed is one of the key factors for a successful user experience. In today's fast-paced world, website visitors have high expectations about how fast your website should load. Grabbing the audience's attention is literally a matter of milliseconds. The Performance report will show how quickly your web elements load. Analyze the metrics and adjust your site content, from images to fonts, to scripts and third-party services. Note that such a third-party service which slows down your site performance may be web analytics. In contrast to them, Finteza does not affect your website loading time.

How to use the report: Suppose you register a high bounce rate, more than 70%. Users visit the home page and leave it almost immediately. Do you think your offer is not attractive enough? Often the reason is more straightforward: the content loading speed. The Performance report shows that it takes more than three seconds to load home page images. This is too long. Users think that the site is either down or is not fully operable, and thus you lose the client. Therefore, before offering discounts or promotions, optimize your images — this may generate a much greater effect than you expect. According to Google's 2017 research, the website page content should load as fast as possible.

Marketing Funnels

Check how customers move along the sales funnel. Action-based events will show how many customers reach key stages. Data visualization in funnels will assist in spotting possible bottlenecks. Why does one page provide more registrations than the other? For example, poor performance can be related to incorrectly arranged elements. Finteza will show the exact reason.

How to use the report: Suppose you have configured a website sales funnel using events. You expect that the client visits your site, navigates to the purchase page and fills out the registration form, after which you send a confirmation email. From that email, the client navigates to the payment page and pays for the purchase. A sharp drop in the number of users at a certain stage indicates issues in this specific zone.

Example 1. 1000 people visited the site, 800 of them navigated to the purchase page, 700 filled out the registration form, and 650 confirmed it but only 10 people actually paid for the purchase. It is clear that something is wrong with the payment page. Perhaps, the popular payment method is unavailable and thus users cannot pay due to technical reasons.

Example 2. You have 1000 visitors, 800 of whom navigated to the purchase page, 700 filled out the registration form but only 50 users confirmed the purchase. 40 of them successfully completed the purchase. In this case, you should obviously check your confirmation email template. It may have a broken link or can be incorrectly displayed. In this case, by simply revisiting your emails you can boost sales.

A/B Testing

Use tests to validate hypotheses. Are you planning on improvements? Do you think that a red button will perform better than a green one? Forward some users to a test page with a new design and compare conversions using sales funnels. If your hypothesis is validated, enable the new page and improve conversion rates. If not, run another test without disabling existing web pages. This approach assists in finding optimal solutions through direct interaction with clients.

For example, a UX designer offers a new purchase page design. The changes are radical: rearranged elements, new colors and an updated registration mechanism. Your existing page shows some conversion rates, while the new design can generate worse results. One could conclude that the new page is less efficient. However, lower performance can be caused by different reasons. The launch of the new page could coincide with some other events that affected sales. For example, the payment gateway had some problems due to which purchases could not be completed. Run an A/B test to exclude such factors. The idea of the test is to launch two different pages for the same audience, under the same conditions and at the same time.

For this purpose, the audience is divided into two parts each of which is forwarded to a different page. If the above payment gateway problem occurs during this time, it will immediately affect both audiences. Thus, you will still be able to efficiently compare the performance of the two pages.

Lighthouse Report

This report provides a comprehensive audit of the entire website. Finteza evaluates the usability of the website or separate pages based on the best practices and generates improvement tips. You will receive recommendations on how to improve the site structure, colors, SEO, links and other parameters.

How to use the report: Lighthouse can assist in improving Google search results. The report evaluates all parameters which affect your site's search ranking. By following Lighthouse recommendations, you can make your site more attractive to visitors and improve its protection against vulnerabilities.

Traffic Quality Measurement

Malicious site traffic and bots cause a lot of problems, especially if you purchase traffic from third-party resources. You pay for dummy bots and get distorted conversion statistics. Furthermore, on-site bot behavior can decrease the site's search engine ranking. Finteza performs a multi-stage comprehensive traffic assessment to identify 12 types of bot traffic.

How to use the report: For example, you purchase traffic from three different providers. The overall result is positive — you register an increase in visitors and orders. All traffic resources provide reports demonstrating efficient performance. With Finteza you can additionally evaluate the real efficiency. Check the Quality report for each source, and you may find that only visitors from one source complete purchases. The other two resources provide bots which imitate real person behavior without buying anything. Avoid unnecessary costs by disabling fake traffic and invest these funds into highly performing traffic resources.

Finteza is a comprehensive analytical tool: in addition to providing unique information about the trading platform, it can assist in reducing costs, in increasing conversions and in improving your website performance.

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Businesses have to handle global tasks, such as developing a company strategy, increasing a customer base and improving investment returns, among others. These challenging tasks motivate the team and generate tangible results in the form of business profits. At the same time, there is a huge pool of invisible work which includes tedious routine processes. Such tasks can hardly be referred to as a dream job, but they need to get done to keep a company going. These include sending emails, responding to the same customer requests and implementing monotonous infrastructure maintenance.

The problem is that these boring tasks are just as important as exciting ones. The routine cannot be avoided as it provides the foundation of a stable business. The related processes require 100% efficient implementation of simple and understandable tasks. Unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite: an employee spends more energy on routine tasks, loses concentration, forgets something or mixes things up. As a result, many companies spend a lot of resources on monotonous work and suffer financial losses due to human inefficiency.

Businesses can hire extra staff, introduce fines or offer incentives in an effort to solve the problem. However, usually, such steps increase the company's costs without producing the desired result. They do not eliminate the human factor which means there is the risk of human errors. Furthermore, while one person makes one mistake in an hour, ten people can make ten mistakes within the same time frame.

MetaTrader 5 offers a much more efficient built-in solution which assists companies in avoiding manual work, in reducing error-related costs and in freeing up resources for exciting tasks. This is the Automations service. How it works: you instruct the platform to implement certain actions upon certain events. For example, if a new user registers on the site, the service will send a welcome message. If the client's demo account is running out of funds, the service will create a new account and will send an email with the new credentials. Such scenarios can automate almost any routine task which is now stealing the time and effort of your team.

Why the Automations service is more efficient than humans:

1. Reliability. Many routine tasks require an immediate response. A person can miss a notification, put off a task or get distracted. The service forgets nothing. While being constantly at work, it is always focused and ready to respond to any event.
2. Zero error risks. Unlike a human, a robot will never mix things up. The service will accurately execute configured actions upon relevant conditions.
3. Scalability. The Automations service can equally efficiently send one email, one thousand or even one hundred thousand. You can automate one process or hundreds without assigning additional employees or spending extra resources.
4. Resource efficiency. When routine business processes run automatically, your team can focus on more creative tasks which will eventually increase the company's profits.
   

You can configure the service without requiring special development knowledge. No matter how important the process is, its automation only takes a few minutes, and you instantly receive a reliable, trouble-free system.

The most common automated tasks in MetaTrader 5:

• Communication with customers
• Infrastructure performance monitoring
• Account management
  
• Risk management
• Bonus programs

Use the MetaTrader 5 trading platform with Automations to increase the efficiency and reliability of your business processes. You will get rid of thousands of daily routine operations, eliminate the human factor from your daily activities and avoid losing money due to employee mistakes. The service is provided free of charge for one month. This allows you to try out its features and make sure that the service is beneficial for your company while solving real tasks.

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On January 17 and 18, MetaQuotes' team will participate at the iFX EXPO 2023 in Dubai. For over a decade, this financial exhibition has been bringing together fintech and online trading professionals from Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The organizers expect at least 45,000 attendees to visit iFX EXPO Dubai this year. The attendees will be able to meet the representatives of more than 2,000 fintech companies, banks, liquidity providers and other market participants. Join this networking event to meet leading industry experts and to discuss various topics, from trading platforms and blockchain technology to marketing and legal issues.

Our representative will participate in a discussion related to high-tech industry trends and growth drivers in 2023. He will talk about the future customization of our trading platform, about the services which streamline everyday business processes, as well as about unique end-to-end analytics for brokerage companies. But the key topic of our presentations and discussions is the new MetaTrader 5 Web Terminal and its latest innovations. We will also cover the following topics:

• Features of the newly released MetaTrader 5 Web version for any device and browser
• Desktop updates, including the improved Market Watch feature and access to current account data
• Advanced security: two-factor authentication in the trading platform
• More than a hundred ready-made Automation scripts to streamline everyday processes

Visit iFX EXPO Dubai and meet us in person at booths 119 and 120. We will be happy to answer your questions. See you at the event!

MetaTrader 5 was awarded as being the best multi-asset platform during the Finance Magnates London Summit 2022. This year's exhibition marked its tenth anniversary with over 3,500 attendees from fintech companies, blockchain and payment service providers, traders and institutional brokers, as well as 130 speakers and 150 participants.

The exhibition was held from 21-23 November and concluded with an awards ceremony at the historic Old Billingsgate building, during which MetaQuotes received the award for the Best Multi-Asset Trading Platform.

"We appreciate the high commendation of MetaTrader 5 results. The development of a modern trading platform is an ongoing process which aims in creating and maintaining the highest standards of excellence throughout the industry. This award confirms that MetaQuotes is working towards the right direction, creating the best possible product for our customers," Renat Fatkhullin, MetaQuotes CEO, commented.

MetaTrader 5 is the universal market instrument for brokers and investors, covering various needs and levels of qualification. The platform supports multiple versions and is available for any operating system and includes desktop and mobile applications. The trading platform is suitable for solving various tasks of every market participant -– brokers, exchanges, novice investors and experienced algorithmic traders.

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The Automations service saves MetaTrader 5 users from manual routine work, eliminates human error and reduces company resource utilization for higher-value activities. How it works: you set up a specific event in the system and create a script triggered by the event. A user has registered in the platform? Send a welcome email. A data feed has disconnected? Restart it and notify the administrator. The main advantage of Automations is that the service instantly reacts to triggers and executes the necessary actions without errors. Unlike a human, the system always remembers to perform the required actions on time. The service automates thousands of different scenarios saving you from a huge amount of routine work.

We have always strived to make the trading platform highly efficient and user-friendly, for which we are constantly collecting user reviews. Based on customer tickets, we started compiling a list of ready-to-use scenarios to cover the most common situations. Companies asked for ready-made solutions which could be enabled almost instantly. As the Automations popularity grew, we expanded the list of available scenarios. Finally, more than 100 ready-made scenarios have become available in the latest platform update. This means that you can solve hundreds of typical business tasks in just a couple of clicks.

The most common automated tasks in MetaTrader 5:

• Infrastructure performance monitoring
  
• Communication with customers
  
• Account management
  
• Risk management
• Bonus programs

In just a few minutes, you can set up a trouble-free system that will save you time and money. You can automate your business processes without requiring special knowledge and without having to develop your own service — MetaTrader 5 provides a ready-made and highly efficient solution. The service is provided free of charge for one month. This allows you to try out its features and make sure that the service is beneficial for your company while solving real tasks.

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The new MetaTrader 5 web terminal is available on all Apple and Android devices. Regardless of iPhone versions and browsers, traders can fully manage their trading accounts using a mobile device. Furthermore, there is no need to download a mobile app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.

The new MetaTrader 5 Web provides a fully featured trading terminal from which users can:

• Work with demo and live accounts
• Receive any financial symbol quotes
• Execute trading operations in any financial markets
• Analyze symbol quotes using more than 30 indicators
• Use Economic Calendar data for fundamental analysis

All these features are available from any mobile browser. The popular night theme is also supported.

The new MetaTrader 5 Web Terminal has become faster and more efficient. The application has not just been optimized — it has been redeveloped from scratch. The new core has enabled faster response to commands and greater operational stability. The web terminal is safe to use since all transmitted information is securely encrypted.

Launch the new Web Terminal

MetaQuotes has released a completely new web terminal for MetaTrader 5. The web terminal enables trading from any web browser as it works in all operating systems without extra software installations. It is safe to use since all transmitted information is securely encrypted.

The new web terminal has become faster and more efficient while it features an updated interface and a completely redesigned core. The major update enables the web terminal to run on each broker's access server rather than on one common server. It operates as an individual web terminal, which only works with a specific broker's platform. This approach provides maximum security and full control for the broker.

It also features a plethora of new functions which were not available in the previous version:

• Convenient configuration of symbols in the Market Watch, along with the daily price change data
• Ability to request real accounts with a detailed registration form and document submission options
• More analytical objects with extended management options
• Market entries and exits displayed on charts
• Economic Calendar events displayed on charts
• Support for price data subscriptions and the ability to receive delayed quotes
• Simplified interface:
• chart context and top menus have been removed
• all chart commands, objects and indicators are available on the left-hand side and top panels
• additional commands can be accessed through the hamburger menu
• The mobile version features a responsive interface for iOS and Android devices
• Interface dark mode

Companies holding valid web terminal licenses can set up the new version on their servers and start using it without extra fees. Otherwise, a license can be ordered via the technical support site.

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