MetaQuotes Software Corp.

After launching the News Feed, we continue to expand social functions of MQL5.community. Now you can not only share any Forum message via social networks but also quickly add its author to friends.

This can be done by clicking + sign to the right of Share icon:

Thus, you can add an author of a message you liked to friends in two clicks.

Please pay the most serious attention to filling out your MQL5.com profile. Avatar, background image, detailed description, link to your website – all these things can be important to a user who wants to add you to friends. Therefore, we recommend that you add as much information about yourself and your activity as possible, including your avatar and the background image. This will facilitate more effective communication with other traders within MQL5.community.

Fill out your profile, upload an avatar and a background image, share the news and add MQL5.com members to friends via the Forum instantly!

What is social trading? It is a mutually beneficial cooperation of traders and investors whereby successful traders allow monitoring of their trading and potential investors take the opportunity to monitor their performance and copy trades of those who look more promising.

You monitor real-time trading of a number of traders, connect to the most successful ones and copy their trades in automatic mode - that's what social trading is about. For novice and inexperienced traders who have just turned to financial markets for additional income, it is probably the best opportunity to actually start trading.

You do not need to be a professional trader with a great bundle of knowledge and skills in order to trade professionally. Nor do you need to follow and analyze the news from financial markets, work out and implement trading strategies and be prepared to change the ones that fail to keep monitoring their performance in the new market conditions. Thanks to social trading it all becomes unnecessary since you can simply copy trades of all those who follow the news, analyze markets and create profitable strategies.    

Is it difficult to start mirror trading and how much does it take? While hedge fund investing was not available to many due to high entry threshold (hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars), social trading is a highly affordable system available to absolutely any trader with any income level. It opens up access to a large market with vast opportunities that you, too, can use.

Social trading advantages are obvious:

• Additional income for both traders and investors
  
• Investment diversification
  
• Opportunity to connect to the most successful traders and automatically mirror their trades
• Low entry threshold: you can start with a minimum budget
• Practice opportunities: you can trade on demo accounts in a training mode
• Time saving
• High operability and user-friendly interface

Ready to take the opportunities offered by social trading but don't know where to start? MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 are the most famous and popular platforms for social and mirror trading, with Trading Signals service being a very convenient, advanced social trading feature offered in these platforms. Social trading with the MetaTrader platforms is very straightforward: the user chooses the signal directly in the terminal, subscribes to it and from that moment on all trades are copied in his account.

Social trading with MetaTrader will allow you to monitor trading activity and profitability of successful traders, and most importantly, copy their trades. If you see a positive trend in performance of one of the traders whose signal is available for subscription, go ahead with it and start copying his trades. The trading terminal will automatically mirror all trades of the signals provider in your account, without any manual intervention necessary.

So, after subscribing the trader can earn money using the Signals service, without effort, skills or trading experience.

After all, social trading should be simple and straightforward to be easily understood by traders with any background. We cannot but admit it. In this light, MetaTrader trading signals appear to be perfectly adequate. They are available to any user, regardless of their trading experience. Here, you are not required to sign an agreement with a provider of the selected signal or a broker, nor is there any paperwork or manual control necessary. Everything is done automatically.

All you need is to specify your broker and enter the number of your account on the broker's server. Nothing more than that. Subscription process will take very little time. The description of a step-by-step subscription procedure is available in the article entitled "How to Subscribe to Trading Signals". After reading it, you will subscribe to the signal of your choice quickly and easily. 

Despite being seemingly complicated, choosing a provider of the suitable signal has been made as simple as possible - the Trading Signals section features a regularly updated list of providers. By default, signals on the list are sorted by quality ensuring that top positions are taken by signals with higher credibility and better financial performance. However, for your convenience trading signals can also be sorted by monthly growth, number of subscribers, price and other parameters.

Social trading with the MetaTrader trading platforms is easy, straightforward and available to everyone. Out of thousands of available signals providers, you just need to choose the one that suits you more and measures up to your parameters!

We have recently launched a poll on MQL5.com forum to know your opinion on the affiliate program. As we have expected, the option "Yes, I sell trading applications and signals and I am ready to share my margin with affiliates" has turned out to be the most popular.

Now, we want to reveal the details of the planned affiliate program. The new reward scheme will help MQL5.community members promote their products and signals. It is beneficial both for sellers and promoters. While participating in the program, sellers will increase sales volumes of their applications, signals providers will attract more subscribers and promoters of affiliate web links will receive their well-earned interest from sellers and providers. It is a win-win situation for all the participants!

Have you posted a web link or a widget of a Market product and it has been used by a purchaser? Then your reward is waiting for you! Have you shared a web link or a widget of a paid signal and a trader has subscribed to it? Then it's time to receive your payoff! 

Sellers and signals providers can specify the size of the reward to be received by promoters. The payoff is calculated relative to the product's full price – application developer/provider specifies the percentage value that is to be transferred to a promoter's account at the time of purchase/subscription. For example, if the application's cost is 100 US Dollars and the payoff is set to 25%, a promoter will receive 25 US Dollars to his or her account.

Signal or Market product editing web pages allow you to specify the payoff amount (in percentage value of the product's full price) to be transferred to a promoter when a web link or a widget is activated.

Potential promoters can find out the payoff amount at an affiliate web link and widget receiving block of the product's page.

Promoters can track their affiliate web links and earned funds via Partner section of their MQL5.com profile. Both the total number of attractions and the number of successful ones are displayed there. Successful attractions are the ones followed by subscription to the signal or purchasing a product in the Market using an affiliate web link. In addition, the amount of US Dollars earned at each web link to a particular product or signal is displayed.

Now, it has become much easier to encourage MQL5.community members in advertising your products and signals, as soon as real money is involved. Share your profit with community members who are willing to distribute web links and widgets of your applications and signals and become popular with our affiliate program! We offer more customers for you and more profit for your promoters!

We are pleased to announce that MQL5 Reference is now available in 7 languages including Italian.

MetaTrader 5 trading platform is popular among traders all over the world and we strive to make it closer to people. It is much more convenient and pleasant to work with the application translated into your native language.

MetaTrader 5 interface has already been translated into more than 20 languages. Italian has become the seventh language offered by MQL5 Help. The Help contains loads of useful information for developers of trading robots including:

• 2740 sections
• 213 images
• 326 functions
• 1237 constant and enumeration values
  
• 186 Standard Library classes
  

At the same time, we do not forget about the user guide for the trading terminal itself. It is now available in 7 languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese and Italian. User guides in French and Turkish are under development and will be available soon.

All user guides can be downloaded right from MetaTrader 5, Documentation section and www.metatrader5.com official web site.

Benvenuto, MQL5!

Five months ago, we reported on 500 000 users of MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 mobile platforms. By April 2013, this number has doubled reaching the level of one million mobile MetaTrader users! Such a good momentum clearly shows that our mobile applications are in demand among the widest possible audience.

"We are greatly encouraged by reaching the level of one million users of MetaTrader mobile platforms. This means that we are on the right track, and our solutions meet the needs of traders" - comments Gaies Chreis, COO of MetaQuotes Software Corp.   

The statistical data has been gathered during the year from the time when MetaQuotes IDs were introduced in the mobile terminals. These unique identifiers allowed us to determine the exact amount of actually used mobile terminals.

We are pleased to announce the official certification of the MetaTrader 5 trading platform by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Due to this, CME brokers now have the opportunity to use MetaTrader 5 when dealing with their customers at CME.

The certification awarded officially denotes that MetaTrader 5 meets all the technical requirements set by CME in relation to futures trading. The trading platform connects to the exchange via a specially developed gateway that ensures correct handling of market data, as well as trading operations and generates reports as required by CME.

Apart from CME, the trading platform has already been certified by a number of various world exchanges. However, the platform has evolved beyond exchange certifications. During the first two months of this year, two brokers at Moscow Exchange have already launched MetaTrader 5 for Live trading. More brokers are preparing to offer Live trading very soon on the exchange through MetaTrader 5.

Stock exchange traders' response to the MetaTrader 5 trading platform that previously associated the platform only with Forex market, appeared to be very positive. The platform major advantages as per trader feedback so far include high performance, a wide range of analytical functionality and the ability to use advanced solutions in the field of mobile and automated trading.

"MetaTrader 5 has appeared to be a very good choice for us, - comments Alexander Dubrov, Head of Internet Trading in Otkritie Financial Corporation. The back office solution is the best we have seen and the interface is very user-friendly. Judging by the first positive feedback from traders, the trading platform has a promising future."

Having completed the CME certification, MetaQuotes Software Corp. now intends to focus on brokerage companies that are members of CME. "Realizing that the launch of a new platform can be quite challenging for a broker, we proactively offer our assistance and support to stock market participants, - says Gaies Chreis, COO of MetaQuotes Software Corp. It is certainly a complex process that requires time but based on the traders' feedback so far, we stand a good chance."

In addition, the company keeps working on the integration of MetaTrader 5 with other world exchanges. In the next two months, we are planning to complete the certification for TURKDEX and Warsaw Stock Exchange.

We continue the development of MQL5.community, with an emphasis on social networking. And today we are pleased to announce the launch of the new website feature - the Wall.

The Wall is a digest encompassing all that is currently happening in the community and displays a variety of MQL5.com achievements. It reflects the entire activity of MQL5.com. The Wall highlights new Forum threads and Market best-sellers, shows the number of new screenshots posted and signals that have become available for subscription. Click on the Wall and you will immediately be "in the know" of what is out there in the community.

In addition, events can be monitored in your preferred community sections. All posts on the wall are divided into 6 categories - Articles, Forum, Code Base, Market, Signals and Charts. The entire history of the community is now available to you among other things, as the Wall covers all events from the launch of MQL5.com till now.

This allows you to get a quick insight into the life at MQL5.community at the present moment. It is somewhat similar to well-known social networks where recent activities of the member's friends are displayed on the member's home page. In our case the Wall makes it possible to conveniently view community members' activities on one page!  

MetaQuotes Software Corp. announces the expansion of its offices. TradeNTrain has become the company's agent in India. This is the eighth representative office of MetaQuotes Software Corp. in the world.

The office in Brazil was opened in May 2012 becoming the company's first official agent in the Americas. Now, MetaQuotes Software has decided to strengthen its presence in the Asian market. The company believes that the representative office in the Indian subcontinent will reinforce its positions on the local market and provide clients with high-quality support and service.

The new agent sales and supports all software products of MetaQuotes Software Corp. This means that TradeNTrain offers a certified service to the customers using MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 trading platforms, as well as TeamWox business management system. Considering the growing interest in MetaQuotes Software products in the region, establishing the new office is an important step in becoming even closer to clients.  

"Our mission in TradeNTrain is to help our clients simplify their work both on financial markets and within their companies to the greatest possible extent. MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and TeamWox are aimed at solving these issues. Technological advantages of MetaQuotes Software applications make this task quite feasible. The rapidly growing Indian markets attract more and more traders who need a trading platform with a user-friendly interface. Becoming an Indian representative of MetaQuotes Software, we are glad to meet the rising demand" - says Manoj Choudhary, Head of the MetaQuotes Software office in India. 

"The active expansion to the East is one of the key elements in strengthening the company's positions in the global market" - adds Gaies Chreis, COO of MetaQuotes Software Corp. "We want to ensure that our clients are able to contact us directly and receive high-quality and efficient service wherever they are. Becoming a world-class service company is the goal we pursue by opening new offices around the world."

Contacts

509, INIZIO
Cardinal Gracias Road
Chakala
Andheri(E)
Mumbai – 400099
India
Tel.:  +91 22 66206900
Fax: +91 22 66206999
Website: http://www.tradentrain.com
E-mail: india@metaquotes.net 

Extended authorization and "Crosshair" mode were implemented in the previous build of MetaTrader 5 Android. Today the mobile platform received a number of new features. Traders will be able to closely examine them right after downloading the latest build of MetaTrader 5 Android. In addition to Crosshair, the application now features Data Window and display of OHLC prices on charts.

Besides, forced password change option has been implemented for safety reasons. All these innovations are aimed to make the work with MetaTrader 5 Android more convenient.

Over half a million of traders from all over the world currently use MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 mobile terminals in their trading activity. This figure is the most objective proof of the high quality and functionality of the mobile applications developed by MetaQuotes Software Corp.

83 000 traders use MetaTrader 5 terminals, while 418 000 traders use MetaTrader 4. This statistical data includes the terminals both for iPhone and Android devices. Though both mobile platforms have almost similar functionality, the wider popularity of MetaTrader 4 is obvious. This can be explained by widespread distribution of the platform on the market.

"We are glad that we managed to release the applications that have become so popular. Positive statistical data suggests that we are on the right track, and we should continue our development in this direction" - said Gaies Chreis, company COO.

The statistical data has been gathered during the last six months from the time when MetaQuotes ID was introduced in the mobile terminals. These unique identifiers have been designed to send service messages to traders' terminals. They also allow defining the number of actually used terminals. MetaQuotes ID is assigned to a mobile terminal only when it is launched. In other words, statistics consider only the terminals that have been actually launched and used.

Download and, most importantly, use MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 mobile terminals. Have a nice trend!