MetaQuotes Software Corp.

The largest Brazilian broker XP Investimentos is holding its first trading championship - Campeonato de Traders 1ª Edição. The event is arranged with the help of MetaQuotes Software Corp. XP Investimentos has recently started offering MetaTrader 5 trading platform to 80 000 of their clients. 

The competition is open to everyone. Participants are required to sign up, open a trading account with XP Investimentos and deposit 5 000 Brazilian reais to it. According to the contest rules, participants will trade BM&FBovespa mini-indexes within 4 weeks. The traders with the highest profit from initial deposit win the contest.

You can register as a participant of Campeonato de Traders from the 14th of July until the 5th of August. The championship is to be held from the 11th of August to the 5th of September.

The winners will be awarded the following prizes:

• First place - a trip to Las Vegas,  $3 000 worth of credits on the MQL5.com account from MetaQuotes, 1 year of free brokerage service for trading mini-indexes, 8 hours of online coaching on MetaTrader 5 from Rogerio Figurelli, 7 000 Brazilian reais as a money certificate for XP Educação training courses, and 1 year of free online courses from Leandro & Stormer
  
  
• Second place - a trip to Rio de Janeiro,  $2 000 worth of credits on the MQL5.com account from MetaQuotes, 6 months of free brokerage service for trading mini-indexes, 6 hours of online coaching on MetaTrader 5 from Rogerio Figurelli, 5 000 Brazilian reais as a money certificate for XP Educação training courses, and 6 months of free online courses from Leandro & Stormer
  
  
• Third place - a trip to Rio de Janeiro, $1 000 worth of credits on the MQL5.com account from MetaQuotes, 3 months of free brokerage service for trading mini-indexes, 4 hours of online coaching on MetaTrader 5 from Rogerio Figurelli, 3 000 Brazilian reais as a money certificate for XP Educação training courses, and 3 months of free online courses from Leandro & Stormer.

You can find the competition rules here.

The new version of MetaTrader 5 for iPhone and iPad features new possibilities.

MetaTrader 5 trading platform now features two-factor authentication, one-time passwords for which are created in the iPhone-version of the terminal. This mechanism is simple: a one-time password (OTP) is requested every time a user authenticates in the desktop or tablet terminal. The OTP is generated in MetaTrader 5 iPhone based on the secure hash algorithm HMAC SHA256.

This provides an additional level of account security: now a verification code is required in addition to login and password. The generated code is tied to a particular device and changes every 30 seconds, so that your trading account is protected from hacker attacks.

The latest version of the mobile terminal now supports the VoiceOver function. VoiceOver is a screen reader, which provides spoken descriptions of the user's actions in the terminal. The feature is designed to increase accessibility for low-vision traders.

Do not forget to update your MetaTrader 5 iOS and experience the new possibilities of the mobile platform.

MetaQuotes Software is pleased to announce that its MetaTrader 5 trading platform has entered the Brazilian market. The largest independent Broker in Brazil XP Investimentos has officially launched MetaTrader 5. This means that more than 80,000 customers of the company can now trade in the financial markets using the world famous platform.

Importantly, traders can trade not only currency instruments, but also stocks and futures of Brazilian companies. To connect to the São Paulo Stock Exchange BM&FBovespa, XP Investimentos specialists have developed a special gateway to provide correct execution of trades and delivery of market quotes. Finally, customers of XP Investimentos can fully appreciate the benefits of stock trading with the MetaTrader 5 platform.

XP Investimentos rigorously tested the terminal prior to announce the launch of the new service publicly. “For more than 10 months, MetaTrader 5 was available only to 100 users selected for beta testing of the product. Only after the final debugging of all processes, trading with MetaTrader 5 became available to all our clients” says Guilherme Benchimol CEO of XP Investimentos.  

"Interest in the South American market has recently increased," says Renat Fatkhullin, CEO of MetaQuotes. "We are looking to expand our presence in the region. We have entered the Brazilian market with the help of the leading local broker with a large client base to instantly win a substantial market share. Thus, we achieve a higher exposure by providing MetaTrader 5 to the broad masses of traders, while our partner XP Investimentos have satisfied the wishes of their customers. We are happy to strengthen our position in the region and will continue to actively expand into the Latin American market."

Our company will act as a technology partner at FX WORLD ISTANBUL conference that will be held from 25 to 28 September in Istanbul. The event will be arranged with the assistance of multiple Turkish non-governmental organizations and will be dedicated to the development of Forex industry in the country.

The representative of FX WORLD ISTANBUL organizers Ceylan Pirinçcioğlu underlined some important points: “In the world of FOREX, the global daily trading volume has reached 5.3 trillion dollars whereas the Turkish volume is 30 billion dollars, representing 0.6% of the global volume. Particularly to attract regional foreign investors to our country, a number of important changes must be considered in our regulation and taxation system. If we can attract foreign investors for FX, I am sure that they would also invest in Turkey.” 

Pirinçcioğlu has also highlighted the importance of detailed explanation of the "Leverage System" for the benefit of investors. The maximum leverage allowed in the country currently is set at 1:100 and this ratio indeed creates enormous opportunities as well as risks for investors.

Besides, about 50 representatives of different financial organizations are to speak at the event. MetaQuotes Software Corp. will present its latest technologies and software solutions able to solve a number of Turkish Forex issues and facilitate the market development.

Adding funds to an MQL5.com account became even more convenient with the NETELLER payment system that is used in more than 200 countries. Now you can quickly deposit up your MQL5.com account, and subscribe to a trading signal or buy an app in MetaTrader Market.

First, working with the NETELLER system is convenient and secure thanks to the use of password and security code (Secure ID). For example, to add funds to an MQL5.com account it is enough to enter the Secure ID, but not the password used to access your NETELLER account.

Second, the NETELLER system is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) that is well known to anyone familiar with Forex market. This is an additional reliability factor of the payment system. Third, you can apply for a prepaid MasterCard card with instant access to the funds in your NETELLER account, and pay with it online and offline, which is very convenient.

Use the NETELLER system to deposit your account and purchase services at MQL5.com!

At the Arabian Banking Technology Exhibition & Conference (ABTEC), our company will showcase the MetaTrader 5 trading platform and present the latest developments for brokers and traders. The event will be held on April 8-9, 2014 in the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre (BIECC).

ABTEC is a very important exhibition for technical experts of different financial institutions, with representatives of leading banks, exchanges and financial groups of the Middle East and North Africa region being among the participants. We hope that they will be very interested to understand how MetaTrader 5 can facilitate the start up and the management of a brokerage business and intend to provide a complete demonstration of the platform using real trading scenarios.

Any interested parties are welcome to attend and meet with our representatives. This is probably the best opportunity to see how to start a brokerage business with MetaTrader 5.

Arabian Banking Technology Exhibition & Conference (ABTEC)
Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre (BIECC)
April 8-9, 2014
MetaQuotes Software Corp. - Stand D03
Please register to attend the exhibition

Over the past six months, MQL5 Reference has been translated into Italian and Portuguese, and now it has also become available in Turkish. You can download the Reference right now from MetaTrader 5 terminal or Docs section of MQL5.com.

Millions of traders around the world already use MetaTrader 5 platform in their native languages, and Turkish-speaking users can join them now. Turkish is one of the twenty most widely spoken languages in the world having 65 million native speakers.

We are glad that all essential information about working with MQL5 language is now available in Turkish, thus promoting the automated trading. Development of trading robots is becoming much simpler and easier to understand for many traders of various skill levels.

Download MQL5 Reference in your native language right from MetaTrader 5 or Docs section of MQL5.com website.

We are actively working on improving MetaTrader mobile applications for Android. First, working with charts has been optimized for the latest MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 versions of the most popular mobile OS in the world. This means that all charts are displayed correctly now with no image blurring.

Second, we have taken into account your feedback and expanded the list of supported devices. Take your Android smartphone out of the pocket, download the latest update and try it.

Besides, omissions of the previous versions have been corrected. As a result, it is now much more convenient to work in mobile MetaTrader.

Download the latest MetaTrader for Android and keep trading!  

The new version of MetaTrader 5 iOS now features significantly revised charts and depth of the market, updated chat, as well as News and Mailbox tabs. The number of timeframes has also been increased - traders can now use week and month time intervals.

We have revamped the application turning it into an even more convenient trading tool. Trading, analytics, financial news, email correspondence and communication with colleagues in a secure chat - all that is available now.

It has now become much easier to use charts in the mobile platform. The new build now presents significantly accelerated rendering, inertial scrolling and increased number of scaling steps. Also, users can now change the chart color scheme. In addition, quick edit mode has been implemented. It allows traders to re-size, move and delete indicator windows directly from a chart. To enter the mode, press and hold the tap on the chart.

MetaTrader 5 iOS chat has also undergone significant changes. The message limit has been increased up to 1000 characters and login auto-complete function when searching for a contact has been added. Also, it is now possible to register and log in to MQL5.com directly from the mobile application.

Besides, the new iPad version now provides the entire functionality of the iPhone application, as well as some additional features:

• Displaying up to four charts having individual settings
• Various options for arranging chart windows
• Handy Toolbox window with adjustable height to display orders, trade history, emails, news and journal
• One click trading from chart
• Quick navigation to the close and modification dialogs by tapping position or order.

Try the new features of mobile MetaTrader 5 on your iPhone or iPad right now. Download our application from the App Store!

We have recently launched the Chinese version of MQL5.community website. First of all, we have translated Documentation section, the entire website interface and we have also started working on Articles section. Within two months, we have increased the number of articles translated into Chinese up to 50 ones. As a result, our website now provides truly unique information that cannot be found on other web resources!

Evaluation of trading systems, testing and optimizing Expert Advisors, ordering trading robots via Jobs freelance service, speeding up calculations with MQL5 Cloud Network - all this information is available in Chinese now.

Another quarter of the year has passed and we have decided to sum up its results for MetaTrader AppStore - the largest store of trading robots and technical indicators for MetaTrader platforms.

First of all, AppStore for MetaTrader 4 has been released in beta mode and the final version is to be launched soon. However, trading robot developers can already publish their MQL4 applications there. More than 200 programs have already passed the tests. They will be available for traders immediately after MetaTrader 4 Market is launched.

More than 500 developers have placed over 1 200 products in MetaTrader AppStore by the end of the reported quarter. This exceeds the previous quarter results by one third. The largest share among the published applications is occupied by trading robots (45% of the total number of products) and technical indicators (34%). AppStore visitors can also purchase panels, analyzers and various utilities to expand the possibilities of their trading platform.

Along with the increase in the number of developers and products, the number of traders actively using the Market is also growing. The milestone of 150 000 downloads of trading robots and technical indicators has been reached in the third quarter. This number includes installations of free and commercial product versions since the launch of AppStore. The breakpoint of 100 000 downloads has also been passed just a little while ago - in the second quarter of this year.

Sales

The sales of MetaTrader AppStore commercial products maintain a high growth rate (increased by 33% comparing with the previous quarter) and steadily increase in proportion with the number of downloads. This can be explained with the influx of new visitors to the AppStore and growing number of resales to the current clients - over 36% of buyers have purchased two or more AppStore products (+2% comparing with Q2 2013).

The third quarter has not brought any significant changes to the structure of sales by product categories. Technical indicators are still the most popular products in quantitative terms (45% of total products bought). Trading robots run a close second (41%). Panels occupy the third place with 6%.

In monetary terms, trading robots (Expert Advisors) leave all other product types far behind. This product category occupies 85% in MetaTrader AppStore's total turnover. Trading robots are followed by indicators (9%) and panels (5%).

MetaTrader AppStore TOP-10 Sellers

We have again prepared the list of TOP-10 Market sellers summarizing the results of Q3 2013. The list includes the best of 500 developers of trading robots and technical indicators with the highest sales volumes for the reported period.

TOP-10 MetaTrader AppStore sellers (Q3 2013):

1. arnbober (Arnold Bobrinskiy) - new on the top list
   
2. johnnypasado (Jeremy Scott)
   
3. iTC (Gennadiy Stanilevych)
   
4. PzTrading (Arturo Lopez Perez) - new on the top list
   
5. cameuh (Camille Huot) - new on the top list
   
6. DC2008 (Sergey Pavlov) - new on the top list
   
7. figurelli (Rogerio Figurelli)
   
8. mttruc (Mai Thanh Truc) - new on the top list
   
9. champions763 (Agus D Riadi) - new on the top list
   
10. song_song (Jinsong Zhang) - new on the top list
    

For Q3 2013, the rating has changed significantly. First, we have a new leader - the newcomer arnbober. He has provided two products for sale - trading robots of Bobra series. Both of them enjoy popularity and have good sales volumes. Second, our top list has as many as seven newcomers. They have entered the list while selling various products: trading robots, technical indicators, analyzers and utilities. For example, a seller DC2008 sells only Analyzers.

The total sales of the TOP-10 sellers have comprised 39% of the overall amount of programs sold in Q3 2013. This is 4% less than in Q2 which can be explained by the growing number of sellers and sold Market applications. Our list of top sellers may change further after AppStore for MetaTrader 4 is officially launched. We will certainly follow up on this.

Prepare your MQL4/MQL5 applications for MetaTrader 4/5 and sell them on the multi-million market.