MetaQuotes Software Corp.

The Automated Trading Championship 2010 is over. For 12 weeks the Expert Advisors of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 Participants have been competing for the prize money. In this struggle, recognized authorities were falling and new heroes were born, newcomers were achieving unexpected success and old-timers were ingloriously completing their ways.

The first place is taken by the newcomer of the Automated Trading Championship - Boris Odintsov from Russia. Another Russian Participant Andrey Perfilov takes the second place. During the dramatic struggle for third place, winner was finally revealed - Ludwig Rota from France. In addition, Ludwig gets the special prize from MIG Bank - a free trip to a Formula One race in 2011.

We are happy to announce that on the 4th of October 2010 Automated Trading Championship 2010 has started. All the preparatory stages are over, and the registration and verification of Expert Advisors are completed. 314 Participants are admitted to the competition. Now the Expert Advisors will have to trade absolutely independently and prove that they can earn more than other EAs. While their creators can only watch what is going on.

During the Automated Trading Championship 2010, in the news section of the website, we will publish interesting news about the possibilities of automated trading, interviews with Participants, statistical reports and other materials. If you are not participating in this Championship, you can still freely use these materials for developing your own automated trading programs. Follow the news!

We wish good luck to all the Participants of the Automated Trading Championship 2010.

The sponsors of the Championship are: Interbank FX LLC, MIG Bank, FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC), журнал TRADERS’ and Dow Jones. The Championship organizer is MetaQuotes Software Corp.

La plateforme de trading MetaTrader 5 est sortie en 2010. Contrairement à MetaTrader 4, elle permet le trading du Forex et des places boursières du monde entier.

MetaTrader 5 est actuellement un puissant outil de travail fournissant de nombreuses opportunités : trading des actions et du Forex, analyse technique, analyse fondamentale, programmation de robots de trading, environnement de développement MQL5, testeur de stratégies multi-devises, MetaTrader Market d'applications de trading, trading social, et le service Freelance pour commander des robots de trading personnalisés.

Seven months have passed since testing of the MetaTrader 5 platform started. The first stage of it implied closed testing among the most active members of the MQL4.community. On the second stage we officially published the terminal - its public testing started. Together with that, back-office components of the system were also tested.

So now we are ready to render a report on what has been done. Since the start of the testing, we have received about 1,000 bug reports and crash logs on the entire platform. While fixing these bugs and crashes, and implementing your suggestions, we've released about 100 builds of the MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal, MetaEditor and the MQL5. Bug reports on the testing of back-office components also were of great help, and allowed releasing of over 60 builds of server components.

Now we would like to thank all of you who participated in this testing. Your help is very valuable for us. "We've released over 150 builds on the whole - that was really much. After all this joint job, the platform has become stable enough, so that soon we'll officially release it," - Gaies Chreis, COO of MetaQuotes Software Corp. said.

Le site Internet MQL5.com pour les développeurs d'applications MQL5 apparaît en 2010. 

C'est actuellement la plus puissante communauté de développeurs de robots de trading dans le monde, fournissant énormément de services — trading social, boutique d'applications de trading, bibliothèque de programmes MQL gratuits, service Freelance, blogs, articles et toutes les documentations nécessaires.

Today we are pleased to announce the public testing of the MetaTrader 5 client terminal. It is open to anyone who wishes to test the new terminal. To register as a tester, just proceed to download the terminal and test it. All testers are invited to report bugs and make suggestions via email or publish them here.

During the testing period, the client terminal is available in English only. If you have any difficulties, please check out the built-in Help, which is also available in English.

You can download MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal by clicking on the following link: https://download.mql5.com/cdn/web/metaquotes.software.corp/mt5/mt5setup.exe?utm_source=www.metatrader5.com (7Mb)

We thank you in advance for your contribution on the MetaTrader 5 terminal testing.

Scope Work for MetaTrader 5 Testing

1. The platform testing will take approximately 5-6 months.
2. This will be a stage-by-stage testing. New features will be added during each stage. During the first testing stage that starts today, the client terminal will work with Forex only. Later on we will add Futures, equities and options.
3. The current terminal version comes in without a strategy tester. It will be included later.
4. Commencing November 2009, the testing of back-office components of the platform will be open to brokerage companies.

We are committed to delivering a truly stable, high-quality product, that's why the testing is evolving into a multi-stage process. We just wish to ensure the highest quality in every stage of the process before we release the platform to our clients.

Best regards,
MetaQuotes Software Corp.

Dear clients,

Organization and conduction of the Automated Trading Championship is a very complicated and cost-consuming project. For the maintenance of this competition our company needs to involve tens of specialists from different departments. Among persons involved in the conduction of Championships there are developers of trading platforms and specialists of the software testing department.

As you might know, now we are engaged in the development of a new trading platform MetaTrader 5; its release is planned for this year. All our forces are now concentrated on the platform release, and soon it will be presented to you for beta testing. Focusing all our resources on this release, we don't want to be distracted from this target.

Besides, the new platform will contain a new environment for the development of trading strategies - MQL5 IDE. We find it more reasonable to conduct the next Championship using the new language. However, it is unlikely that potential participants will manage to learn MQL5 and write new Expert Advisors in it. Due to this the number of potential Participants may be much lower - this is sure to have a negative effect on the attraction of the Championship.

Taking into account all this we decided not to conduct the ATC this year. Instead of this we will concentrate our efforts on the release of the new MetaTrader 5 platform and next year we will conduct the Championship for Expert Advisors written in MQL5.

En 2006, les riches fonctionnalités de l'environnement MQL4 permettent à la société d'organiser le premier Championnat de Trading Automatique annuel. Jamais auparavant une compétition d'Expert Advisors n'avait été vue à ce niveau dans le monde. Les robots de trading de 258 développeurs se sont affrontés pour un prix de $80.000 en 12 semaines de compétition. Le gagnant Roman Zamozhnyy a augmenté son dépôt de 250% et à gagné $40.000 sur les marchés.

Le Championnat a suscité l'intérêt des traders et des courtiers encourageant le développement du trading automatisé de par le monde.

Après deux ans de développement, le plus populaire terminal de trading MetaTrader 4 est sorti, devenant de facto un standard dans le trading du Forex et fournissant aux millions de trading un outil de travail fiable. Comme d'habitude, le produit a été redéveloppé entièrement et fournit de nombreuses différences fondamentales. 

Des innovations ont été introduites pratiquement partout - depuis les nouveaux terminaux pour mobiles jusqu'à la fondamentalement nouvelle architecture distribuée de l'intégralité de la plateforme. Le terminal client devint une fois de plus le plus fonctionnel et le plus populaire sur le marché. La nouvelle plateforme comprenait également l'IDE MQL4 - un environnement de développement des stratégies de trading qui a révolutionné le développement des applications de trading automatique.

La version MetaTrader 4 Mobile pour les appareils mobiles est sortie en octobre 2005.

Les premiers terminaux pour mobiles pour le trading du Forex (MetaTrader 3 CE et MetaTrader pour Palm) sont sortis en 2003. 

Les terminaux ont été rapidement appréciés des utilisateurs, élargissant la base de clients de la société et augmentant la popularité de MetaTrader dans le monde.

La nouvelle plateforme diffère de l'ancienne version par ses fonctionnalités supérieures. 

Le plus important est que le nouveau terminal client était fourni avec un langage intégré de programmation des stratégies de trading - le MetaQuotes Language (MQL). Il permettait aux utilisateurs de développer des robots de trading.