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The UK-based broker has opened direct market access (DMA) for trading stocks. As a first step, Darwinex has launched 30 US stocks, present in the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) index via the MetaTrader 5 platform. Ultimately, the company expects to attract new traders willing to diversify their trading.

The goal of Darwinex is to offer its customers a wide range of stocks, of various companies around the world. Therefore, the range of tools will expand even further. After testing the new offer under real conditions, the broker is going to increase the number of US stocks and add European companies.

Darwinex founders — brothers Javier and Juan Colóns

Darwinex is a fast-growing FCA regulated broker and asset manager, employing 50 people across its London and Madrid offices. The broker offers clients DMA execution at competitive rates, combined with access to more than $50 million in third-party capital, managed by Darwinex.

— 2018 is a key year for Darwinex as we look to broaden our reach through additional asset classes and trading platforms, — says Mr Juan Colón, CEO of Darwinex. — MetaTrader 5 and stocks are just the start of our journey in becoming a full service multi-asset, multi-platform broker. Our product roadmap is packed with exciting updates as we want to be the ultimate choice for every trader seeking access to the best education, execution, information and capital.

The international broker has announced the biggest instruments expansion they have ever made. Admiral Markets clients holding MetaTrader 5 accounts are given access to over 4,000 stocks and 100 ETFs. Together with the previously available instruments, this offering has become one of the largest among all online trading venues.

The new Admiral Markets offering for investors provides stocks and exchange-traded funds from the following exchanges:

1. Austria (VIE)
2. Belgium (Euronext)
3. Denmark (CSE)
4. Finland (NASDAQ)
5. France (Euronext)
6. Germany (Xetra)
7. Netherlands (Euronext)
8. Norway (NASDAQ)
9. Portugal (Euronext)
10. Spain (BME)
11. Sweden (NASDAQ)
12. Switzerland (SWX)
13. UK (LSE)
14. US (AMEX, NASDAQ and NYSE)

Jens Chrzanowski, Admiral Markets Group AS

— We are delighted to make these classic investment opportunities available at Admiral Markets. — says Mr Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. — Traders might not always want to trade short-term, which is quite usual for any leveraged product; sometimes you might prefer to invest for a longer period of time. In this case, the 'classic' equities, such as stocks are more relevant. Also, let's not forget about ETFs, which are quite popular in the past years and now also available on MetaTrader 5. ETFs or exchange-traded funds are 'passively managed', without a high management fee. Unlike mutual funds, an ETF trades like a common stock on an exchange. Moreover, ETFs typically have a higher daily liquidity, which makes them an attractive alternative for investors.

— We have taken a great leap forward in terms of promotion of the world's most advanced trading platform — MetaTrader 5, among the trading community and classic investors, — sums up Mr Chrzanowski. — While the former get access to investment opportunities, the latter obtain an incredibly powerful trading tool. Without the capabilities of MetaTrader 5, which is as different from MetaTrader 4 as the modern electric car is from the good old diesel, it would not be possible to provide such a diverse offering."

The broker encourages all clients with MetaTrader 4 accounts to learn more about MetaTrader 5 and consider switching to Admiral.MT5 and/or Admiral.Invest accounts, as MetaTrader 4 has reached its technical limits with the current offering.

During the event, we will present a new version of the back office with advanced analytical information and built-in onboarding tools for brokers. The event will be held at the Palais de Sports athletic center (Limassol, Cyprus), between May 22-24.

We expect to have the attention and feedback from brokers for this project, as at the event they will experience the MetaTrader 5 back office system as they always wanted.

iFX EXPO International 2018
May 22-24, 2018
Palais des Sports - Spyros Kyprianou, Limassol, Cyprus

The international broker announced the launch of new ​Admiral.Invest​ accounts on MetaTrader 5. Stock investors and traders can now access the stocks of ​265 largest companies​ from the US, the UK and the EU. Furthermore, Admiral Markets is aiming to add substantially more equity offerings in the upcoming months to expand portfolio investing possibilities for their clients.

The broker believes that the launch of Admiral.Invest is a specific shift towards the promotion of MetaTrader 5​, which is a more powerful and enhanced version of MetaTrader 4. The new account type supporting stock trading has been exclusively developed for the MetaTrader 5 platform. The three key points of the new offering are as follows:

1. No leverage: real stock trading 1:1
2. No short trading: profit only in rising markets
3. Long term investment possibilities: dividends received can be used as a savings fund

Jens Chrzanowski, Admiral Markets

Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS comments, "More and more clients are moving toward diversification of their trading activities. Now we've taken the next big step by also offering traditional-style investments in real stocks. As usual with stocks, traders are able to hold them long-term and can earn dividends from them. Sometimes, leveraged trading makes sense, while traditional investment may better suit other occasions. The best bit is that all options can be handled from one source via the MetaTrader 5 platform. Our new account type, Admiral.Invest, allows easy internal transfers in just a few seconds, instant access to many global stock markets and simple chart analysis, all within the universally recognizable MetaTrader interface."

The upgrade to the new platform is coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of RiddiSiddhi Bullions Limited's RSBL Spot system. RSBL is India's leading bullion company, with a turnover of over $1.5 billion. Its RSBL Spot is one of the few platforms supporting physical gold and silver dealings and deliveries. The system today has astounding thousands of registered jewelers, spread across all the corners of India. All RSBL's clients will now be able to trade via the new-generation MetaTrader 5 platform.

RSBL Spot was the first system in India that allowed for real time, two-way Indian bullion price quotes that brought together the entire ecosystem on one platform, viz. dealers, jewelers and investors. All what is needed to open an account is KYC documentation, to gain access to loaded features such as live international rates, complete facilities for managing the account, access to research reports, recommendations and news updates. The system was initially launched on the MetaTrader 4 platform, and now the company sees the future of RSBL exclusively on MetaTrader 5.

Prithviraj Kothari, RiddiSiddhi Bullions Limited

Prithviraj Kothari, Managing Director of RiddiSiddhi Bullions Limited, comments, "With our web terminal and apps, RSBL Spot has taken online trading facilities to India's farthest corners, making it possible for the common man to benefit from investing in gold and silver. Now, we are upgrading the RSBL Spot system to MetaTrader 5. Generally, the new platform is expected to be the new standard in financial markets and excels MetaTrader 4 in all terms, so the choice was obvious for us. This is a big milestone for the entire RSBL family and for all Indian traders."

The popular multi-asset platform now supports demo access to Asia's oldest stock exchange. Open an account on the MetaQuotes-BSE-Demo server and start receiving quotes of BSE featured securities. Also, you can apply technical analysis tools and perform back-testing using the exchange's historical price data.

Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.) is the oldest stock exchange in India and Asia. It is the world's 12th largest stock exchange with an overall market cap of more than $2 trillion as of July, 2017.

"We are pleased to announce the start of MetaTrader 5 integration with BSE," commented Manoj Choudhary, head of MetaQuotes' Middle East office. We are optimistic that brokerage houses associated with BSE will be able to offer their clients trading in Indian Markets through the #1 multi-asset platform."

Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange

Commenting on this development Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO of BSE said, "After the successful integration of currency segments with MetaTrader 5, we will be extremely happy and excited to integrate more BSE finance instruments with MetaTrader 5. I am sure this is an important and long-awaited development for the Indian community of traders and investors."

Download MetaTrader 5 and trade on BSE

The Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) has decided to offer MetaTrader 5 to all its market participants. This means that 333 PMEX members will be able to operate their business on MetaTrader 5 and to offer advanced trading and investment facilities to their clients. The cutting-edge functionality of the popular platform will become available to Pakistani traders, including the most powerful automated trading possibilities through the desktop application, mobile applications for iOS and Android devices and the full-featured web platform. Also, traders will be able to rent virtual hosting servers, apply technical indicators from the Market and use other MetaTrader 5 services for the optimal PMEX futures trading experience.

Ejaz Ali Shah, Managing Director of PMEX

Established in 2007 in Karachi, PMEX is the first and only futures market in Pakistan regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).

"In early 2015, we announced the MetaTrader 5 integration with PMEX, and a month later one of Pakistani brokers started offering the new platform to their clients," said Gaies Chreis, MetaQuotes' Chief Operating Officer. "Now, after three years, PMEX completely switches to our software. This is definitely a beneficial step for all members of the exchange. Operating on MetaTrader 5, PMEX will be able to smoothly connect institutional clients, while brokers will be able to provide their traders fast and reliable access to the exchange. As for traders, they will certainly appreciate the comfort of trading through the advanced ecosystem of the fifth generation platform. Our wish is for other exchanges to follow the example of PMEX".

Left to right: Anwar Mirza (IT Consultant of PMEX), Ejaz Ali Shah (Managing Director of PMEX), Hamad Shah (Head of MetaQuotes Pakistan) and Shehzad Makhani (COO of PMEX)

Mr. Ejaz Ali Shah, Managing Director of PMEX stated, "PMEX is proud to announce the availability of MetaTrader 5 for all its Market Participants. The offering of MetaTrader 5 by the Exchange is in line with its technological overhauling strategy. The Exchange has always remained proactive in identifying and exploring ways for improving its existing technology infrastructure to allow its members and clients a seamless trading".

We will present our latest developments and new services for the MetaTrader 5 platform at the FxCuffs 2018 event, which will take place at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre on March 16-17.

It is the largest Eastern European conference of investors, which is expected to bring together over 5,000 visitors. More than 70 representatives of the European financial industry will participate in the event, including brokers, investment funds, banks, cryptocurrency start-ups and private investors.

"We are now seeing strong interest in MetaTrader 5 in Central and Eastern Europe," says Gaies Chreis, MetaQuotes' Chief Operating Officer. "Poland is one of the fastest growing markets in our industry. Leading regional and local brokers of European origin have already moved to the new platform, and negotiations with a number of other major market players are currently underway. We are going to showcase all the technological power of MetaTrader 5 at the FxCuffs event, and we hope to further strengthen relations with the Polish trading community!"

We invite everyone to meet with MetaQuotes' representatives at booth #45 and learn more about our company's products. To set up a meeting with our specialists, please send a request to sales@metaquotes.net.

The FxCuffs 2018 admission is free. Please register here.

Expo FxCuffs 2018
March 16-17, 2018
ICE Krakow Congress Centre
https://expo.fxcuffs.pl

The new service will enable financial technology providers to directly offer their goods and services to brokers. The purpose of the Market is to provide clients access to a wide range of MetaTrader 5 solutions from leading global integration companies.

Some of the major industry players have already joined the Market, and the range of featured products is gradually expanding. Everyone will benefit from the launch of the new marketplace, including brokers and integrators. Brokers can access a plethora of third-party MetaTrader 5 applications through MetaQuotes' official service. Integration companies can promote their solutions to all institutional users of the platform via this new marketing channel. The new B2B service is expected to stimulate the market and accelerate migration to MetaTrader 5.

"We are very pleased to have been selected to be included in the exciting new third party MetaTrader 5 solutions market," Tom Higgins, CEO of Gold-i comments. "This will greatly increase the visibility of our range of MetaTrader 5 products. We are already seeing an increase in sales of MetaTrader 5 related products — our Gold-i MetaTrader 5 Gateway, our MAM for MetaTrader 5, our business intelligence and risk management tool, Visual Edge; and our liquidity management platform, Matrix. The Gold-i Crypto Switch, which provides access to leading global crypto exchanges and crypto liquidity providers, is also proving to be popular.We expect that the new service will create further sales opportunities for us as MetaTrader 5 brokers worldwide will be more informed about Gold-i’s products."

"oneZero has been a leading provider of connectivity solutions for the MetaTrader platform for nearly a decade," Andrew Ralich, CEO of oneZero says. "We are happy for brokers to be presented a reliable means to access quality, tested solutions via MetaQuotes' new marketplace. For many years, they struggled to identify which technology companies provided reliable solutions for MetaTrader platforms. The launch of the new Market has finally solved this problem."

"The launch of a single marketplace with up-to-date information about new technologies and applications for MetaTrader 5 is an important event for the entire market," Alexei Kutsenko, the Founder and CEO of Tools for Brokers comments on the launch of the service. "Similar to the Market of trading robots for traders, this unique site for institutional clients will enable brokers to keep abreast of the latest developments and find necessary solutions for their business. Participating in this project as a vendor, we can effectively inform our clients about our new products."

London-based Prime of Prime brokerage Stater Global Markets has added MetaTrader 5 to its platform options for clients. The company is also launching a MetaTrader 5 White Label offering. According to Stater Global Markets, it will be in high demand from banks and brokers, particularly in Asia - a key growth region for Stater.

Stater Global Markets offers clients direct access to Tier 1 bank and non-bank liquidity, clearing and institutional grade technology. The prime broker's team has many years of experience in both financial and technology companies. This allows for a multi-faceted approach to client support and efficient problem solving.

Ramy Soliman, Stater Global Markets

Ramy Soliman, CEO of Stater Global Markets, believes that MetaTrader 5 is far superior to MetaTrader 4 and will become the dominant platform for retail clients.

"Brokers are increasingly wanting to offer multi-asset products to clients", says Mr. Soliman. "Meanwhile, MetaTrader 5 is ideally suited for our institutional client base and their multi-asset requirements. We are delighted to have added MetaTrader 5 to the Stater Global Markets portfolio of platforms to offer our clients access to Exchange Traded Futures, Precious Metals and FX. In addition, we have plans to offer trading Cryptocurrencies using MetaTrader 5 in the near future".

MetaTrader 5 is developing rapidly. Upon traders' requests, and in an effort to further improve our product, we have added a number of new tools and services to the platform. No such innovations will ever be implemented into MetaTrader 4. Moreover, this is only the first step in the MetaQuotes Software's new large-scale campaign, aiming in expanding the functionality of MetaTrader 5 for traders.

The new release features an ability to create synthetic financial instruments. Activation of this feature requires setting the formula for calculating quotes to be based on one or more available instruments. The platform will generate its minute ticks. All subsequent quotes will be built automatically in real time.

How it works:

1. You create a synthetic instrument and set the formula for price calculation.
2. The platform generates a minute history of the synthetic tool for the last two months. It is calculated based on one-minute bars of instruments used in its formula.
   
3. The prices of symbols used in the calculation are verified every 10 seconds. If at least one of them has changed, the price of the synthetic symbol is calculated and a new tick is generated.
4. All new bars (current and subsequent ones) of the synthetic instrument are created based on generated ticks.

Full-fledged projects simplify the application development for algorithmic trading and constitute another important feature of the build. Instead of the main MQ5 program file, a separate MQPROJ file is used as a project. It stores program settings, compilation parameters and information about all used files.

A separate tab in the Navigator is provided for work convenience within the project. All used files are arranged into various categories:

• Headers — adding header files.
• Resources — images, sounds and other MQL5 programs used in the project as resources.
  
• Sources — MQ5 files with a source code.
  
• Settings and Files — adding other files, such as set files for testing and chart templates.

The new build makes it more convenient to develop robots with other traders. The Shared Projects section provides the ability for developing trade applications in teams. A project developed under Shared Porjects is automatically added to the online MQL5 Storage. In the project properties, you can grant permissions to other MQL5.community members and set the common parameters for the group:

• Private project
• Free to join project
• Join by request project

The new MQL5 Cloud Protector mechanism provides an additional layer of protection for trading robots. This protection is similar to the option used in MetaTrader Market, where EX5 product files are additionally compiled to native code. Now, this feature is available to all developers. Protector-backed files can be executed on any computer, similar to common executable applications. To enable protection, execute the following command in MetaEditor: Tools — MQL5 Cloud Protector.

Find out more about all innovations of the MetaTrader 5 Build 1730 in Release Notes.

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