MetaQuotes Software Corp.

MetaTrader 5: Official Release

It's the 1st of June - the date of official release of the new MetaTrader 5 trading platform. Now you can purchase the new online trading platform for your company, expand into new markets and offer even more services to your clients.

MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester!

Today we have released the beta version of MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. This program is the integral part of the MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal being designed for the purposes of testing and optimization of MQL5 Expert Advisors.

MetaTrader 5 Testing Report

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.

Automated Trading Championship 2010

We are glad to announce that the Automated Trading Championship will be conducted this year - in 2010. The main purpose of the competition is promoting the idea of the automated trading and the new development environment MetaQuotes Language 5 (MQL5). The total prize of the Automated Trading Championship 2010 is 80,000 US dollars.

Official Launch of MQL5.community

We've launched a new website - MQL5.community, devoted to the trading strategy programming language MQL5. We are always attentive to your comments and suggestions, and the launch of the new website is another step to meet your wishes.

Happy New 2010 Year!

Dear partners, customers, and users!

TeamWox: New Partnership Program

We are happy to announce the launch of our new partnership program. It has undergone revolutionary changes, and almost all its aspects have been improved. This new program will be even more attractive and beneficial to our partners!

The new website of MetaQuotes Software Corp.

Today we're launching our new corporate website that contains the detailed information about our company and all our products. Visit this new website to read about the MetaTrader trading platforms and the TeamWox company management system. Besides, news regarding our company and products will be also published here.

Press Release: TeamWox Revolution

Release of TeamWox Trial Version — First Step to the Revolution in the Market of Management Systems

Opening new office in Sydney

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new office in Sydney. Strengthening our commitment to the Asia Pacific region,this new office will provide sales and excellent services of all MetaQuotes range of products to all Asia Pacific customers.

Automated Trading Championship 2009 Will Not Be Conducted

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.

Closing MetaQuotes Demo Server

On April 5, 2009 the «demo.metaquotes.net» server will be shut down. However, the History Center with the minute history will continue to operate.

From this day onwards, our company will discontinue using the demo server. There is a great number of companies working with the MetaTrader 4 platform at the moment, so we don't find it reasonable to maintain our own server.

Starts the distribution of TeamWox

We are glad to announce that on the 1st of February our company starts the distribution of TeamWox in all markets. Now any company from any industry will be able to purchase and use the system in their everyday activities. Especially for this product we have created the website www.teamwox.com where all persons interested can find information about the system. Besides usual means, the website offers two possibilities: to become a developer of modules for the system and to become a partner in its distribution.

The Automated Trading Championship 2008 Is Over!

For 13 weeks trading robot of Participants of the third annual Automated Trading Championship struggled for the main prize. The Championship gathered Expert Advisors with different trading strategies, with various mechanisms and numerous sets of trading tools. Thanks to Participants, we learned new possibilities of the automated trading. For many Participants this was the time to test and estimate their Expert Advisors without the interference into their work. Now all their worries are over, all Expert Advisors are stopped. Now this is the most pleasant time of the ATC 2008 - time to name the Winners and hand them their prizes.

Automated Trading Championship 2008 Has Started!

The 1st of October 2008 is the starting date of the Automated Trading Championship 2008. All preparatory stages are behind us, registration and check of Expert Advisors are over. 705 Participants are on the start line. Now Expert Advisors will have to prove that they are able to trade and gain profit without human interference.

The Automated Trading Championship 2008: Registration started!

MetaQuotes Software Corp. is glad to announce that the registration for participation in the Automated Trading Championship 2008 starts on the 1st of July! From now on till the 19th of September, 2008 all persons interested can register for participation in the contest. Participation in the Championship is free.

Automated Trading Championship 2008

MetaQuotes Software Corp., Forex Capital Markets LLC (FXCM), Interbank FX LLC (IBFX), FXDD and the TRADERS' magazine are glad to announce the start of preparations for the third annual Automated Trading Championship 2008. Just as one year before, the registration for participating in the contest will start on the 1st of July 2008. The Championship itself will start on the 1st of October 2008.

The First Book on MQL4 is Published

With support from MetaQuotes Software Corp., the first textbook on programming in MQL4 is available now. The book is published on our website https://book.mql4.com/ru/ and is available free-of-charge.

The book is offered to a wide readership interested in developing automated trading programs for MetaTrader 4 Clent Terminal. At the same time, however, thanks to the new terms introduced in the book, it will be also interesting for experienced developers of automated trading systems.

Sergey Kovalyov, the book author, thinks that «the development of applications for MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal requires the knowledge of MQL4. This textbook will equip you with useful knowledge about how to create your own Expert Advisors, scripts and indicators and, with their help, turn your ideas, your algorithms of profitable trading, into reality.»

Nowadays, the advantages of automated trading, a twenty-four-hour management of large amounts of data and complete automation of the trading process, are easy to see. Besides, an automated trading strategy doesn't include the human factor in trading altogether. For example, the recently held Automated Trading Championship 2007 demonstrated the opportunities provided by programming of traders’ own strategies. The leader of the Championship increased his initial deposit 13 times within just 3 months! The books tells about how to write your own trading strategy using MQL4.

Table of Contents:
— Preface
— Table of Contents
— Introduction to MQL4
— Language Basics
— MetaEditor
— Program in MQL4
— Operators
— Variables
— Programming in MQL4
— Trade Operations
— Simple Programs in MQL4
— Standard Functions
— Creation of a Normal Program
— About Complex Programs
— Appendix

The 2007 Automated Trading Championship Is Over

12 weeks of the most interesting and exciting event in the world of automated trading, the 2007 Automated Trading Championship, are over. The championship is finished with all Expert Advisors fully stopped. Now's the time to name the winners and hand out prizes.

MetaQuotes: 7 Years of Services!

MetaQuotes Software Corp. was founded on the 27th of November 2000. Its only activity was and still is development of software for financial markets. The company has achieved much within the last 7 years. We have developed 4 trading platforms, 4 mobile terminals, created 4 development environments for automated trading, issued one book, and are preparing another one for publishing. Besides, we are organizers of two world championships — Automated Trading Championship 2006/2007.

When developing our trading platforms, we always do our best to make them really world-beating. We care of both their functionality and efficiency, and friendliness. For this reason, we always spent really much time and efforts on development of user interfaces of our software. In order to provide users with the most functional tools, we were always interested in knowing traders’ and brokers’ opinions, welcomed their comments and suggestions. All this wasn’t in vain. Today, due to its characteristics, our MetaTrader 4 is the most commonly used trading platform in the world, and traders choose our trading terminals most frequently.

Technological development produced the need and the possibility to create client terminals for mobile devices. We were among the first to provide traders with mobile terminals having developed them for our trading platform, MetaTrader 3. The programs were highly estimated by users.

Of course, the demand was not really high at that time, but it kept growing, so we received evidence that had been an upcoming trend in the field of trading technologies. Taking up the development of trading platform MetaTrader 4, we were sure that mobile terminals would be in high demand. Several years of working in this direction produced good results. Today, mobile technologies in trading are perceived as a matter of course, and one in ten of our traders use them in their daily activities.

One more upcoming trend in development was automated trading. Even our second platform, MetaQuotes, included in 2001 an integrated programming language for writing trading strategies, MetaQuotes Language (MQL). Programs intended for automated trading were called ’Expert Advisors’. Traders used them to automate their analyses of price movements and their trading as such, as well as to create their custom indicators.

At that time, a group of our traders writing their own Expert Advisors (EAs) came into being and started to grow. When developing the next platforms, we did not omit to support them and continuously improved the programming language and the environment in whole. Striving after providing traders with the best development environment and the amplest opportunities, we developed a language named MQL4. By its features, it became the best language intended for programming trading strategies and custom indicators. Since it was released, automated trading has significantly grown in popularity, and the number of Expert Advisors’ writers has essentially increased.

Automated trading boom led us to the idea of organizing a global contest among Expert Advisors. An important feature of the contest had to be full transparency and availability of all materials, as well as absolute independency of EAs. Gradually, having considered these and some other issues, we concluded that we were able to organize such a contest.

Having considered all pros and cons, we took it up, so our first championship, the Automated Trading Championship 2006 took place from the 1st of October to the 25th of December 2006. 258 developers from all over the world participated in it, and three Winners shared the prize of totally 80 000 US dollars. That Championship aroused much interest in traders. Moreover, since it was absolutely open, the Championship allowed us to collect fids of very helpful information that could be used by everybody in his or her research and development. Considering high estimate made by traders and the identified need in such a contest, we decided to make it annual.

Helping traders in their hard work, we always did our best to provide them with as much information as possible. With this object in mind, we launched different websites and communities, published articles and communicated on forums. We also published the book named Forex: From Simple to Sophisticated intended for high readership of traders. We are working on the second book now that will be devoted to automated trading. It is planned to be released in electronic format and for free. We hope that the second book will be useful for traders, too, and help them to explore the market better.

Looking back through 7 years of our services, we understand very well that traders and brokers play the most important role in our company’s life. These were mostly your comments and suggestions that allowed us to create really functional and user-friendly software solutions. These are you who help us to become leaders on the market and who make our solutions the most popular ones in the entire world.

Many thanks to you all!