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# MetaTrader 4 Trading Platform Released

## After two years of development, the most popular MetaTrader 4 trading platform was released becoming the de facto standard in Forex trading and providing millions of traders with a reliable working tool. Traditionally, the product was developed from scratch and featured a number of fundamental differences

1 July 2005

After two years of development, the most popular MetaTrader 4 trading platform was released becoming the de facto standard in Forex trading and providing millions of traders with a reliable working tool. Traditionally, the product was developed from scratch and featured a number of fundamental differences.

![MetaTrader 4 Trading Platform Released](https://www.metatrader5.com/c/17/0/screenshots_metatrader4__1.png)

Innovations were implemented practically everywhere — from the new [mobile terminals](https://www.metatrader4.com/en/mobile-trading) up to the fundamentally new distributed architecture of the entire platform. The client terminal once again became the most functional and popular on the market. The new platform also featured [MQL4 IDE — a trading strategy development environment](https://www.metatrader4.com/en/automated-trading) which revolutionized the development of the automated trading applications.

The version for mobile devices MetaTrader 4 Mobile was released in October 2005.

**Earlier publications:**

- [Release of the First Mobile Terminals](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/news/1347)
- [Release of the MetaTrader Trading Platform](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/news/1346)
- [Release of the MetaQuotes trading platform](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/news/1345)
- [MetaQuotes Software Corp. is established](https://www.metatrader5.com/en/news/1344)