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PrimeXM has released the MetaTrader 5 integration gateway to their XCore system. This execution and aggregation technology supports low-latency connectivity to over 120 leading providers of Forex liquidity, and is very popular solution among institutional clients. Now, brokers can use the MetaTrader 5 Gateway to PrimeXM to access any liquidity provider on the market.

This integration solution takes into account all new features of the MetaTrader 5 platform, including support of the Market Depth. The new gateway features superior performance while preserving all the advanced features provided in the MetaTrader 4 Gateway to PrimeXM, which is used by 200 brokers around the world.

MetaTrader 5 Gateway to PrimeXM is delivered with a dedicated XCore system, providing for the efficient management of an entire brokerage business in a centralized environment. For each broker, XCore is installed in PrimeXM's own fully serviced infrastructure in Equinix data centers located in London (LD4), New York (NY4) and Tokyo (TY3). Using the latest technologies, PrimeXM infrastructure provides the highest reliability and performance, and is co-located in the same data centers with all leading FX liquidity providers.

"The integration of the XCore system with MetaTrader 5 features a wide range of professional tools for efficient liquidity and risk management, and at the same time provides direct high-speed access to global liquidity in the most cost-effective way for brokers. In particular, the combined solution allows brokers to serve institutional, professional and retail traders simultaneously within the same system without any technological limitations", says Richard Bartlett, Head of Global Sales at PrimeXM.

In addition, PrimeXM can provide hosting for MetaTrader 5 servers in the same infrastructure where XCore and broker's liquidity providers are located, ensuring data transfer from the MetaTrader 5 server to liquidity providers in less than one millisecond. Thus, brokers can achieve the highest possible speed and stable execution quality when trading with liquidity providers without having to create their own infrastructure and bear the costs associated with its support and maintenance.

"We have been actively testing the performance and functionality of our MetaTrader 5 integration with a number of key customers in a real environment since November 2016 achieving a first-class solution", notes Cristian Vlasceanu, CEO of PrimeXM. "Today we are proud to announce a new version of our gateway to MetaTrader 5 — the most advanced solution on the market. This innovation will allow us to provide brokers with leading technologies for connecting to global liquidity".

Following the surge of interest in MetaTrader 5 among brokers, the UpTrader integrator has launched a portfolio of ready-made solutions for companies offering the latest-generation multi-asset platform. UpTrader is a technology provider with 10 years of experience creating products that comply with specific requirements set by brokers. The company offers a wide range of modules and individual solutions necessary for everyday brokerage activity.

Among the portfolio of institutional products for MetaTrader 5, the UpTrader team highlights the basic set necessary for the successful operation of a brokerage company:

1. Personal area. A client web interface for registering new customers and enabling them to start trading. This is a ready-made module with a wide range of functions, including opening and managing accounts and personal data (meeting the KYC requirements demanded by FCA, CySEC and other regulators), as well as support for automated deposit/withdrawal of funds via more than 30 payment systems with an integrated anti-fraud mechanism.
   
   
2. Mobile personal area. A ready-made iOS/Android solution for clients of MetaTrader 5 brokers allowing them to manage their accounts, keep track of the current economic data, receive timely push notifications and log in to their trading platform from the smartphone instantly.
   
   
3. CRM. The customer relationship management system has been developed with brokers' needs in mind. Therefore, it considers all the subtleties of the brokerage business. The CRM conveniently collects and sorts all client data, automatically sets tasks for managers, assigns clients to the right manager and keeps a record of each manager's performance. The system allows for providing limited access to the CRM for your regional partners to improve efficiency and monitor their work.
   
   
4. Partnership programs. The ready-to-launch system is fully suitable for developing a partnership network. Establish a multi-level referral network and set different reward conditions for each level. In addition, you will have an automated system for calculating and charging your partners' rewards, transparent reporting, landing page generator and auto download of banners to partners' websites.
   

Vasily Alexeev, UpTrader

"We have a long history of cooperation with MetaQuotes Software. UpTrader has been developing web systems for MetaTrader 4 brokers for more than 10 years,” says Vasily Alexeev, CEO of UpTrader. "MetaTrader 4 had no rivals in terms of popularity and convenience for brokers before the release of МetaТrader 5. The advent of the new platform stirred a great interest on the market, since it raised the trading experience to an entirely different level. In many ways, it is more interesting and profitable for brokers. In a technical sense, the platform is much more reliable and convenient for integration. We have an increasing flow of orders for MetaTrader 5 products, which is a good sign".

For more information about UpTrader’s brokerage solutions, visit the team at Booth 23 at the iFX Expo International 2017.

A new service has been launched on MQL5.com — the economic calendar tool is intended to provide useful information about macroeconomic events. It is considered a major fundamental market analysis tool developed by MetaQuotes Software on the bases of real-time data collected from public sources. 

The current version features economic news from the US, Japan and the European Union. Regardless of the broker used, relevant information is delivered to traders without delays, allowing them to instantaneously react to market events. Soon, the new calendar will replace the current one used in MetaTrader 5, so that users of the multi-asset platform will be able to receive up-to-date indicator values immediately after their release. Moreover, it will be possible to access the economic calendar from MQL5 robots and the strategy tester.

The MQL5.com economic calendar provides an online chronology, in which events are marked in accordance with their significance, while the most important ones are shown with a red label. With the economic calendar, you can keep track of key events and evaluate their effect on financial markets. Information about economic indicator releases can help users to formulate informed trading decisions and forecast future market developments. For example, knowing the release time of GDP or unemployment rate reports, you can prepare for increased volatility in the market to capture good trading opportunities.

With the MQL5.com economic calendar, you can always be up to date on global markets and well prepared for market movements. For convenience, you can filter events by importance, choose desired countries and time intervals. This essential economic information resource is updated automatically during announcements in real time. Open the economic calendar right now, and start monitoring important macroeconomic events to make more weighted trading decisions.

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After the successful release of the MetaTrader 5 MAMM solution, the Plugit Apps integrator company decided to extend their portfolio of products for brokers already using the new-generation platform.

'As MetaTrader 5 gained a foothold to become the favorite platform among retail brokers, we sought to carry on investing in more MetaTrader 5 compatible solutions,' says Jalal Faour, CEO of Plugit Apps, commenting on the extension of their product line. 'By combining the expertise and joint efforts of our market experts and developers, we have produced an amazing array of products and solutions to complement the MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform. The new range of MetaTrader 5 compatible products has derived from working closely with leading MetaTrader 5 brokers and understanding their requirements. Plugit Apps solutions are designed to address all clients’ requirements'.

Jalal Faour, Plugit Apps

Below are some of the best-selling institutional MetaTrader 5 compatible products offered by Plugit Apps:

• Client Portal, a secured portal that offers a real-time interaction with MetaTrader 5, including customized features that can be tailored to each client’s business scheme and requirements.
  
  
• The Affiliate/IB System portal especially designed for MetaTrader 5, that includes all the essential features required for Introducing Brokers; in terms of allocating multi-tiered and sophisticated payout schemes with advanced reporting tool and user friendly interface, in addition to a powerful Backoffice, rendering operations very efficient.
  
  
• Bonus Automation is one of Plugit Apps' high-demand products that is now fully integrated with MetaTrader 5. A very scalable application allowing brokers to run different bonus campaigns and parallel promotions that suit different types of clients.
  
  
• Dynamic Leverage is a very efficient risk tool, designed to mitigate risks by constantly monitoring each trader’s exposure and adjusting the leverage when a certain threshold is exceeded. A very crucial tool for brokers enabling them to control exposure on a per trader level.
  

'We are continually striving to introduce new MetaTrader 5 compatible products as we acknowledge that the platform is heading in the right direction,' comments Jalal Faour. 'MetaTrader 5 is to become the key platform in the future and here, at Plugit Apps, we are always building for the future.'

We have opened a representative office in Bulgaria. Metapenta Software Ltd will offer its services to regional brokers. The main tasks of our office in Sofia are raising the offered services to a qualitatively new level as well as attracting brokers and financial organizations from the neighboring Balkan countries.

"The decision for this investment was based on personal observations of the parent company that Bulgaria's economy is actively developing", — says Emre Peser, Head of Metapenta Software. "There are several brokers using MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 in Bulgaria at the moment. But I also see a lot of potential opportunities to expand the market share of MetaQuotes Software Corp. products. This will be our main objective. The company will work as an agent of MetaQuotes and as such should serve to implement the business strategy and tasks set by its parent company".

Emre Peser, Metapenta Software Ltd

"We are pleased to offer such a high-tech product as MetaTrader 5 as we are constantly trying to provide the best trading conditions for our customers", — notes Petar Krustev, Executive Director of Benchmark Finance. "We launched the platform as early as 2012, and so far we have implemented all the additional applications, such as mobile versions for iOS and Android. This year, we have switched to the updated MetaTrader 5 featuring hedging. Besides, we are the first ones who offered the Web-based MetaTrader 5 application in Bulgaria".

"Our customers also prefer the MetaTrader 5 platform", — adds Pavel Nikolov, Manager of the International financial markets department at EuroFinance. "The ability to trade in different financial instruments across a platform is always an advantage, therefore the transition from the MetaTrader 4 to the MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform is a great idea. After the new platform with the hedging option was offered on the Bulgarian market, the last advantage of MetaTrader 4 has disappeared".

The advent of MetaTrader 5 is going full speed with FXFlat becoming the first German broker to offer an alternative for MetaTrader 4. The company is a full-fledged STP broker regulated by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) with the FXFlat Wertpapierhandelsbank GmbH license. CapTrader – which is a part of the company – offers stocks, options and futures trading since 2009. According to Rafael Alexander Neustadt, CEO of FXFlat, the oneZero Hub gateway for interaction with Interactive Brokers is an additional argument in favor of MetaTrader 5 since it allows trading on major stock exchanges around the world.

"FXFlat is the first Germany based broker offering MetaTrader 5 including the Web and Mobile Terminal solution", — says Rafael Neustadt. "Since our huge success in the last few years with MetaTrader 4, this is a logical step to expand the product offering. We will utilize the Multi Asset capabilities of MetaTrader 5 and the Interactive Brokers API to offer Futures and Stocks trading on MetaTrader 5 along with Forex we just launched within 2017".

Rafael Alexander Neustadt, FXFlat

“Although MetaTrader 4 is still one of the most popular trading platforms in Germany, I see a definitive uptick in traders looking for MetaTrader 5 brokers", — adds Sebastian Hell, trader and owner of meta-trader-5.de, a blog about MetaTrader 5 in Germany. "Many traders I know like to use both platforms nowadays. I am sure that MetaTrader 5 has a very bright future amongst German traders because it offers more possibilities for traders to build and create complex trading systems as well as more markets like FX and on-exchange products".

Migration of major brokers to MetaTrader 5 is well underway. On April 2017, XM.com, IC Markets and Hedge Total have announced the launch of the multi-asset HFT platform.

"It is something we have been patiently expecting for a long time, and I truly believe it will be a game changer for XM", — says Chris Zacharia, Marketing Director of XM Group. "As noted by myself in a previous interview, I feel the predecessor of MT5, the globally acknowledged MT4, is a great platform and has proved itself, but it could only satisfy the needs of a certain audience and that would be FX traders, while MT5 is open to a whole new audience in addition to FX traders. Only judging from the audience it will serve as a multi asset class platform, I would say it's the platform of choice as we speak".

"Following the popularity of the MetaTrader 4 trading platform, we are proud to announce the long-awaited release of MetaTrader 5", — notes Angus Walker, Director of IC Markets. "We are extremely excited about this release as it is in line with our goal of providing traders with the absolute best tools and conditions to succeed in the markets. Improved functionality of the trading platform means our clients will gain access to advanced trading tools, hedging capabilities, and new financial products".

"Hedge Total is a licensed broker offering its clients and partners the MetaTrader 5 platform with the market depth since 2011", — adds Tim Davis, Head of the Dealing Department at Hedge Total. "We believe that this is the most advanced trading platform, while adding the ability to place locks has also made it the most efficient one for profitable and safe trading. You do not need to study physics and laws of motion to drive a car. And you do not need any of that to trade in MetaTrader 5. Our team is grateful to traders choosing the MetaTrader 5 platform and enjoying the best trading conditions on Forex".

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) holds the sixth conference on precious metals from 9 to 10 April 2017. The event is arranged with the help of MetaQuotes Software — our company is a technology sponsor of the Dubai Precious Metals Conference having the status of Trading Solutions Provider. The MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform developed by the company is the best solution for trading and organizing a brokerage business in any financial market.

DMCC is dedicated to promoting and developing the bullion trade in Dubai, which acts as a crucial gateway between the largest consuming markets in the world. The conference organizers want industry leaders and decision makers to come together and discuss the global trends in the precious metals industry in key markets such as Dubai, China, India, Middle East and Turkey. Apart from the gold industry, emerging opportunities in the wider precious metals market are to be discussed as well. The conference organizers expect over 400 delegates from around the world.

To find out more about the conference and register to attend, please visit www.dpmc.ae.

The latest version of MetaTrader 5 for iPhone and iPad is now available on the App Store. The main innovation of the build — trading history can now be presented in the form of positions. Previously, the History tab contained only orders and deals. Now, it features positions as well. The trading platform collects data on deals related to a position and then combines the data into one record. The record contains:

• Position opening and closing time determined by the first and last trades
• Position volume. If the position was closed partially, the record contains the closed and initial volumes
• The weighted average open and close prices of the position
• The total financial result of deals related to the position

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One month ago we announced the launch of MQL5 coupons allowing brokers to support their traders willing to use the MetaTrader services. Just2Trade, RoboForex and FreshForex companies have become the first participants to implement the new loyalty program and apply coupons to motivate traders.

"By offering coupons to our existing and potential clients, we are pursuing two main objectives: attracting new traders and increasing the loyalty of our existing clients", — says Evgeny Zhilin, Head of Operations at Just2Trade, commenting on launching the coupons program. "Right from the onset, the new system has proved to be a powerful marketing tool improving the company stats in both quality and quantity. It provides a great way to stimulate clients to connect to strategies of successful traders. Our clients are able to see for themselves that Forex provides opportunities for stable profit if traded wisely. We offer 50 USD coupons for traders having at least 1 000 USD on their deposits. The coupons can be used to pay for the first month of a signal subscription".

"In recent years, RoboForex has been developing a series of investment products, and a copy trading service is one notable example", — notes Anton Ivanov, Chief Markeing Officer of RoboForex. "This strategic direction shows a stable and dynamic growth of popularity among our clients, therefore we welcome the launch of the "MQL5 coupons" service from the industry leader — the MetaQuotes Software company. Several of our traders are at the Top of the MQL5 Signals service and have thousands of subscribers with the total amount of managed funds exceeding 12 million USD. Due to such a high demand for the product, we decided to launch a promotional campaign and distribute 2017 trading signals coupons for 40 USD each among RoboForex Ltd active clients".

"The new Coupons service from MetaQuotes is a convenient way to receive products and services for the popular MetaTrader platforms", — adds Alexander Goryachev, senior analyst at FreshForex. "General-purpose MONEY coupons for 50 USD have sparked the greatest interest among our clients since they allow refilling MQL5 accounts and paying for any services and purchases. There are also many customers willing to buy scripts and Expert Advisors. In order to popularize the new service, we are raffling off 10 coupons for $50 among our clients from March 14 to April 13. FreshForex has been working on Forex for 12 years already. The benefit of our customers is ultimately our benefit as well! Therefore, we follow the market trends in order not to miss exciting and practical gifts for our clients".

A number of other major brokers are actively testing the service at the moment preparing special offers for traders. Stay in touch! The number of companies offering coupons will soon increase significantly.